Sink into a Good Book

Spending more hours at my desk this week, but still some time for reading���

For those of you who are new to this feature, the FF feature lists of what I���ve read over the past week.�� They are not meant to be a recommendation list.�� If you���re interested in a not-at-all-inclusive list, you can look on my website.

Kel Sinks In

This is not a book review column.�� It���s just a list with, maybe, a few opinions tossed in.

Recently Completed:

Tamsin by Peter Beagle.�� Audiobook.�� Read by Peter Beagle.�� I���m still not precisely certain why all the material set in NYC couldn���t have been condensed to one chapter.�� That said, I found it smooth reading.�� The book really became a ���don���t want to stop��� once the setting shifted to Dorset, though.�� I loved both the conclusion of the plot and Jenny���s final conversation with a hedgehog.�� And Beagle was a very engaging reader ��� one who could make you forget that a man was reading a story narrated by a teenaged girl.

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer.�� Although smoothly, even richly written, with a well-designed setting (although one that held surprisingly few ���oh, wows��� for me), this book confirmed that, for me, great writing and cool premise can���t trump strong characters.

In Progress:

A Brother���s�� Cold Case by Dennis Herrick.�� I���m a sucker for mysteries where current events are rooted in past events.

Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold.�� Audiobook.�� This time the runaway train seems to be in Miles���s own neurological system.�� I���m only just started, but I have a strong suspicion of what happened.�� Be fun to find out if I���m right!

Also:

After cleaning up lots of administrative stuff, I���m back to re-reading my own short fiction for the collection you folks requested.�� As I commented to Darynda Jones in our recent interview, I���ve discovered that, in the afterpieces, I���m writing about writing again���

Seems to be an addiction.