Quick and dirty review: Historical fiction, set in New York City (I always think of that commercial when I say New York City), from the point of view of a man who lives forever but can't leave the boundaries of Manhattan.
Interesting fact: The author finished the book on Sept. 10, 2001. The next day's events led to a significant rewrite of the end. I'd be interested to read the original ending and see how it was supposed to go.
Verdict: Eh. Interesting, but not gripping.
Currently reading (training-related):
Because, of course, there's no better way to improve one's swimming than read a book about it, right? (rolls eyes) The book was mentioned by one of the guys at the tri club swim a couple of weeks ago and jumped out at me while I was spending my Barnes & Noble gift card. Review to come.
Currently reading (non-training related):
A manly recommendation. I'll let you know if his book recommendations are as good as mine when I finish it....which needs to be soon, because after finishing that online class I did this past week (4 months' work in 6 days. Awesome. When it was done.) I found out that I can do two more of them. I need the credits, so I'm going to do it, but it means spending an awful lot of time at the computer and NO recreational reading.
. These are a couple of the books that I read to my boys, but this year I also wanted to read them some of the books that I loved as a girl. So after The Swiss Family Robinson, we moved on to 
. The first chapter or so, I was wondering what the heck I'd been thinking. It was kind of slow. Not much happened. But then I started to see some great connections we could talk about between the family marooned on a previously uninhabited island and the family living alone in the middle of Wisconsin with no one around. And the kids really have taken to the book. Yesterday, as I was ending for the day (I always try to leave off right as something is about to happen), the kids were complaining, "No! Can't you just read a little more?" (Love it!)