Drama City

First off, you are making me want to read Karr's bios. We are just out of them right now although I think I can find a galley for Lit if I wade into the piles upstairs. So that's that.
On to what I am reading, and believe you me I am reading many books. I read 250 pages of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell without getting into it. I am going to finish that book, for the love of god, but it is um around 700 pages and I don't like it yet! Then I started Let the Great World Spin. Got to page 86 and was just starting to get into it when the book club loomed two days away and I decided to try to read the book Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie. So I got about 50 pages in and decided it was just not going to happen. Really not in the mood for that right now. Although I am sure it is a good read. The next day, a coworker gave me Drama City by George Pelecanos (who, among other things, was a writer for the tv show The Wire). This is the one I have actually finished. Great, atmospheric, flawed characters you really care about, vivid, hard boiled and moving. I loved it. A truly great read. The book divides its attention between two characters: a parolee who works as a
sort of an animal saver for the Humane Society (drives around answering calls and checking on the welfare of pets), and his parole officer, who herself is flawed. The two of them live their lives for us until random neighborhood violence draws them both to turning points. Really good.
Now, I am trying to decide between three books: finish Let the Great World Spin which I know will be fantastic, read A.J. Liebling's Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris (I know I am going to love this), or reread Hunger Games and then Catching Fire so that the third book in the trilogy (which just came out today!) will be fully prepared for. Argh!!!