Reading

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
This is a Nobel Literature winner that I picked up at the library, not expecting anything other than a boring, prize-winning read. It is actually fabulous. The writer, Coetzee, has a fabulous way of keeping sentences short, words concise, and introducing light and air to a tragic story with a hateable main character.
It's the story of Dr. David Lurie, a professor in South Africa who seduces a female student of his into a lukewarm affair. She reports him to the authorities, and his teaching career ends with an embarrassing crash. He moves to the outer boonies to stay with his daughter, a lesbian animal caretaker/farmer, and racial tensions between them and the locals collide, bringing Lurie and his daughter closer than ever.
Like I said, it's a book that, when you first begin it, doesn't seem all that exciting. But I found myself engrossed in it for days.
I love simple books.