I just finished "The Lynne Truss Treasury" after reading her "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" last year.

Have just started on "A Complicated Kindness" by Miriam Toews.

Reading Truss and then Toews balances British comedy with Canadian semi-autobiographical - though Toews throws in a teenage-type zinger quite frequently. This is her first novel, and won an award...it's about Nomi and her dad Ray who live on a Mennonite colony in southern Manitoba. The mom, Trudie, left two weeks after the sister, Tash, did.

Interesting look at the culture, where Nomi calls the pastor "The Mouth."