I'm kind of getting back into reading, after a few months of reading nothing but magazines and blogs here on Teamsugar. I'm pretty excited about it - it's something I really enjoy.

The last book I read was Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson. It was pretty good, and it was an easy read. It's about Arlene, a young girl from Alabama who moved to Chicago after high school and made a deal with God: if she never lied, had sex, or returned to Alabama ever again, God couldn't allow a big secret from her past to resurface. But of course, ten years later, she's forced to return to Alabama to deal with the secret, and the fact that her racist family has a problem with her black boyfriend. It sounds heavy-duty but it's actually pretty funny and sweet at times.

I'm actually reading two books at one time now, which is something I never do. One is Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. I'm about 180 pages into it and it's engrossing so far. The main character/narrator is Cal, who was born a hermaphrodite and spent the first few years of his life as a female (Calliope) before becoming a man. I don't know many of the details of his sexuality yet because Cal tells his family history first. And the family history is so, so, interesting. Anyway, I'll probably review it after I'm done reading it.

The second book is much lighter: Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody (who won an Oscar for her Juno screenplay). I'm about 90 pages into this one so far. Diablo moved to Minneapolis to be with her boyfriend, got a job as a typist/junior copywriter at an ad agency, and started stripping for the hell of it, even though she was too skinny and pale and nothing like the rest of the girls. So far the book is self-deprecating and funny (just like Juno) and VERY interesting, because it gives you a peek behind the scenes at strip clubs.

Anyway, that's what I'm reading now. What about you?

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