

Set My Heart To Five by Simon Stephenson: Truly bamboozling!
This delightful and hilarious novel should be required reading for anyone brave or foolish enough to consider a career in screenwriting (especially the Hollywood variety). At the same time, though, it’s not about screenwriting at all, but rather about how illogical, ambivalent, deceitful, inventive, small-minded, ridiculous and simultaneously wonderful human beings tend to be. And the main character of the story, Jared, is able to see this more clearly than most because he’s