Yes, I am reading something at the moment. Watching Touch of Evil a couple of weeks ago gave me the urge to read the eponymous Orson Welles biography by Barbara Leaming.
This has been in our house for a while now, and mom’s already read it. She didn’t like the writing style much. On the whole, I tend to agree—the sentence structure and phrasing is often awkward, and somewhat quaint… but there’s a lot of interesting stuff underneath the stylistic problems.
I’m much more keen to read the Frank Brady bio, Citizen Welles, but it appears to currently be out of print in the UK. If anyone sees a copy going cheap in a second-hand store, hey, drop me a line.
Oh, I did finish The Stand (the Stephen King epic, in case you didn’t know), finally, about two weeks ago. It was slow work, with other things occupying my time and thoughts, but it was worth it. It’s a really excellent piece of work. The ending isn’t quite the apocalyptic climax some might have hoped for, but since the book was driven by character almost exclusively (a book that long almost necessarily has to be, with rare exceptions), it really didn’t matter. I rather surprisingly found myself wishing it was twice as long, so that I could stay with these people a while longer. I miss them!
Of course, I plan to buy the new Harry Potter book. How totally unoriginal of me. I just can’t spare the money right now.