It's Monday - what are you reading?

Last week was a rough one for me - my dad had surgery, but luckily he lives about 60 minutes away. But trying to juggle being there for my pops with my household schedule of a husband who works 24 hours at a time + teaching 2 days + 2 boys who have swimming 90 minutes every day + a swim meet on Saturday & Sunday - where I also was working as a timer ... well, let's just say - not much time or inclination to read. But I did get through 1 book and things are looking up this week as my dad is out of the hospital and it's just the house that's a wreck with clothes everywhere (but what else is new)!

Weekly Reading With The Last Werewolf

Last Week I Read
The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan.
At first, the pace of this book seemed a little slow, and I was not happy that Mr. Werewolf, aka Jake, was such a sniveling, whiny, suicidal twit. But, about halfway through, things really started moving, and I ended up liking the book. Kudos to the author for his deft manipulation of the character which took me from disgust at first, to something like admiration in the end.
Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but you'd never suspect it. Nonstop sex and exercise will do that for you--and a diet with lots of animal protein. Jake is a werewolf, and after the unfortunate and violent death of his one contemporary, he is now the last of his species. Although he is physically healthy, Jake is deeply distraught and lonely.

Currently Reading
Triptych, J.M. Frey.
In the near future, humankind has mastered the arts of peace, tolerance, and acceptance. At least, that's what we claim. But then they arrive. Aliens - the last of a dead race. Taciturn Gwen Pierson and super-geek Basil Grey are Specialists for the Institute, an organization set up to help alien integration into our societies. They take in Kalp, a widower who escaped his dying world with nothing but his own life and the unfinished toy he was making for a child that will never be born. But on the aliens' world, family units come in threes, and when Kalp turns to them for comfort, they unintentionally, but happily, find themselves Kalp's lovers. And then, aliens - and the Specialists who have been most accepting of them - start dying, picked off by assassins. The people of Earth, it seems, are not quite as tolerant as they proclaim.

Next Book
Someday This Will Be Funny, Lynne Tillman. Collectively, these stories own a conscience shaped by oaths made and broken; by the skeleton silence and secrets of family; by love's shifting chartreuse.

- via Book Journey's What are you reading meme.