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Coronavirus reading

So, here's what I'm reading right now.  I'm finding it hard to really settle on something, for reasons I will detail below. The Mirror and the Light , by Hilary Mantel Well, obviously.  It just came out, and I have been eagerly waiting on this book since Bring Up the Bodies was published.  In fact, there were three books I was eagerly awaiting: The City of Mirrors (final book in The Passage trilogy); The Mirror and the Light , and Winds of Winter .  So now we're just down to Winds of Winter , which I think we can all admit will NEVER BE PUBLISHED.  Anyway, this is taking longer than I had expected, which was naïve on my part as Hilary Mantel is a bit wordy and that's part of the pleasure of reading her work. A Perfect Spy , by John le Carré I'm working to read my way through all his books.  I'm thinking I'll do the George Smiley books in order.  I cannot overstate my deep love for John le Carré, though this one is a little hard to follow, an...