Finally got my hands on Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich. Had to wait months for it - over 400 requests ahead of me. I like the fact that in the last few books, Janet has shown Stephanie to be competent at some things. Ranger asks her help and means it; she's good at security as long as she's not directly, physically involved. Even as she ( Read more... )

Just read Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer and (drum roll please) A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin. Am very worried about Jon. Will have to wait years to find out what happened.

I forgot Marth Wells!!!!! As soon as The Cloud Roads was released I went to Borders to get it and they didn't have it in stock, and the computer said online order only, so I had to order from the website and wait TWO WHOLE WEEKS for it to arrive. I made myself take three days to read it, because I didn't want to blow through it in one. I loved ( Read more... )

Elizabeth Vaughn has a new book about the Warprize out: WarCry. Just read it. Read Flesh and Fire, first in the new Vineart War series from Laura Anne Gilman, who writes the Retrievers novels about Wren and Sergei and PB, and am in the middle of Weight of Stone, the second in the series.

...to my recent comfort-reading habit: I wanted to read Daniel Abraham's The Dragon's Path but I only had enough money for a massmarket, not a trade, so I bought the first book of the Long Price Quartet, A Shadow in Summer instead. I liked it. I got the other three out of the library and tore through them. Then I went back to the bookstore and ( Read more... )

Short answer: comfort reading ( Read more... )

The Human Web by J. R. McNeill and William McNeill

Lost Languages by Andrew Robinson Soft Sciences

The Joy Luck Club which is not at all what I normally read.

by Octavia Butler. One of the Not Dead White Guys.