FF: Decided

Persephone in Her Favorite Basket

As you’ll see below, I did decide on a new audiobook.  Sometimes I find a book lurking on our shelves that I’d overlooked.  Fog Magic was one of these.  A nice discovery.

Most of you know this already, but the Friday Fragments is not a book review column; it’s a list of what I’m reading and maybe a bit about my opinions.  I always read the comments section and enjoy learning what other people are reading.  Oh, and I don’t usually list shorter works unless in a collection or articles, I also don’t usually list scattered research reading.

Completed:

The Icarus Twin by Timothy Zahn.  ARC.  Lots of action keeps the protagonist from having time to concentrate on what seems to be the underlying mystery, except in enough snippets to show he’s not stupid.  A nice expansion of the universe introduced in The Icarus File.

Fog Magic by Julia A. Sauer.  This middle grade novel successfully mingles historical with a magical/mystical element.  The latter is unexplained, as is what happened to the Brigadoon-like village to which young Greta makes numerous visits.  Nonetheless, I quite enjoyed.

In Progress:

Have Sword Will Travel by Garth Nix and Sean Williams.  Audiobook.  I’ve listened to this before, and chose it both because I enjoy it and because I just discovered there was a sequel I somehow missed.  I’ll be starting that maybe even later today.

A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny.  I’m reading this day-by-day to the end of the month.  Re-read.  Moreso than most, as I read this book in manuscript!

Also:

Took a break to read the AARP magazine, which had some good articles.  Now back to the latest Archeology magazine.

Also reading various of the short stories in the Brigid’s Sisters art book/anthology.  I’ve only read a couple, chosen at random, but quite liked them.