A Salman Rushdie book for February?

Salman Rushdie will be this spring's speaker at the March lecture. What are thoughts on reading one of his books in February? Several people mentioned Midnight's Children as a good one.

Michael Chabon's Yiddish Policeman's Union

December 21, 4:00, meet in the usual place.

Hope to see you all there.

More on Gilead

I'm still reading Gilead. I'm not sure why, except Elvira and Connie's defense of the book inspired me to give it more of a chance - or at least to finish it!

So in that spirit, (and in the spirit of Thanksgiving, my being very grateful to have a group of intelligent women with whom to discuss books) I thought I would share some of what I found. (Oh Google, lovely Google.) Page numbers reference my book, published by Picador.

(p. 140)
http://www.babylon.com/definition/moriturus/English

or even closer (it seems to me)http://www.proz.com/kudoz/latin_to_english/art_literary/55143-moriturus.html

(from p. 166)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutatis_mutandis

(from p. 175)http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ipsissima%20verba

I'll send more as I make my way through the book (or I'll stop if you'd prefer).