Just finished The Historian, which I found pretentious, and very undramatic. Currently reading a funny travel book called Narrow Dog to Carcassonne about an English couple taking a canal boat across the Channel and travelling through the French canals. Funny at times, but a little too clipped at the same time-just when you think he has found a topic to expand upon, he stops right there, and he's on to something else. Best book I read this year so far though is Kate Atkinson 's Case Histories.