What are you reading in November 2012?

I'm always looking for leads to books I might enjoy, and age is an interesting demographic for that--perhaps potentially more fruitful than genre or subject matter. So I'm continuing from the October thread.

My active current list includes
• The Gold Bug Variations, by Richard Powers
• When They Came to Take My Father: Voices of the Holocaust, by Mark Seliger
• George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I, by Miranda Carter

I need one additional title to keep up the full complement and am having a terrible time finding one. It has to be fiction, appeal to both my husband and me, and be suitable for reading aloud. In addition, it's best if it's not much more than 300 pages. A long book takes us months to get through at the rate of 90 minutes a week.

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner Published in 1987, I believe it is his best & an American classic. I have the Penguin edition, 339 pages & a type that is easy on the eyes (but not large print.} You probably read it.

Evan Connell has written 3 books about a US family in the 1950's & 1960's. Mrs. Bridge Mr. Bridge and Mr. & Mrs. Bridge Average about 276 pages. Well worth a re-read.

I'm reading Steampunk and YA fantasy right now. (New Amsterdam by Elizabeth Bear, Crown of Embers by Rae Carson, and Flora Segunda by Ysabeau S. Wilce, to be precise.) I promise, though, I do sometimes read grown-up books. It's just that right now my life is pretty grim, so these kinds of light fantasy reads are a good way to escape, at least briefly.

Just finished The War After Armageddon by Ralph Peters and stared Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger

Reading some essays by Edmund White, and short stories from the collections of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The latter are great for reading aloud.