By P.N. Elrod
Yet another Jack Fleming book! YAY! This one was fun, and we got to see a much darker side of Jack, our gumshoe vampire hero, than we have in past books. Hooray!
By Storm Constantine
This is one weird collection of novels. It contains all three Wraeththu books. I can only compare them to Moorcock's books - unreal as a dream, yet strangely compelling. The characters never seem real somehow, and yet the world Constantine creates is fascinating.
It does raise some interesting issues of messing with people's lives for their own good but never really deals with them - that's my biggest problem with it. I've always believed that it is wrong to mess with people like that (one character is torn from the live he has known and from his soulmate because the Wraeththu god wants him to be the king. Nobody asks him if he wants it, it's just done to him), and while some characters mutter about how it might be kind of wrong, it's never really hashed out.
Other than that, it's a pretty neat batch of writing.
By Robert Pirsig
Just started this today and it's already making me all introspective. Scary.
by David Dary
This is a great book about Journalism in the Old West. FANTASTIC! It's everything you think and more. Gunslinging editors, tramp printing press men, fistfights over articles, the works.
Well written and well worth the read.
This is a surprisingly good historical novel about Richard III. It was sad to read, of course, because he had such a tragic life, but it was good. You really got a feeling for him as a person, and unlike "The Sunne in Splendour" it didn't make him out to be a saint.
Plust it has an interesting take on what really happened with the princes in the Tower.
by Lauren Weisberger
Holy cow, this is a great book. Hate your job? Pick this up and see just how bad a job can be. Andrea gets the job a million girls would die for: junior assistant to the all-powerful fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly. But Miranda is insane and the most horrific boss imaginable. This job may be great for Andrea's career but it just might kill her first.
I read this in a single day while I was subbing, and it was so well-written that I couldn't pull myself away. Good thing the kids were well behaved because I was absorbed in the book.
This is the kind of story that makes you appreciate how good you've got it.