While sick this past week I consumed Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series, which is fine for YA urban fantasy and just right when I was stuck in bed with very little brain.
Prior to that I caught up on Ariana Franklin's Mistress of the Art of Death series of 13th century mysteries and Kathy Reich's Temperance Brennan forensic anthropology mysteries.
Roadside Picnic has recently been re-issued and is worth a read--very interesting thinking about a visit by aliens.
Iain Banks has both a new Culture novel (The Hydrogen Sonata--highly recommended, lots of Minds) and a new mainstream novel about Scottish gangsters (Stonemouth, lovely if you liked Crow Road, very much in that vein) out this fall.
I read Junot Diaz' This Is How You Lose Her and found the writing fantastic, but it's hard to love a book to which the answer to the central question is "by being a dick".
If you have not read Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, I think you would enjoy it, if only for the number of characters and locations you would recognize. A fun and timely read, with a moral you'll appreciate, if not a great work of literature.
One of my favorite modern mystery series is Emma Jameson's Lord & Lady Hetheridge stories--many similarities with Inspector Lynley but less angstful and more focused on the mysteries themselves.
I quite enjoyed Cory Doctorow's Pirate Cinema, mostly for the depiction of a group of true friends enjoying an unconventional life together and engaging in true passion projects.
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While sick this past week I consumed Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series, which is fine for YA urban fantasy and just right when I was stuck in bed with very little brain.
Prior to that I caught up on Ariana Franklin's Mistress of the Art of Death series of 13th century mysteries and Kathy Reich's Temperance Brennan forensic anthropology mysteries.
Roadside Picnic has recently been re-issued and is worth a read--very interesting thinking about a visit by aliens.
Iain Banks has both a new Culture novel (The Hydrogen Sonata--highly recommended, lots of Minds) and a new mainstream novel about Scottish gangsters (Stonemouth, lovely if you liked Crow Road, very much in that vein) out this fall.
I read Junot Diaz' This Is How You Lose Her and found the writing fantastic, but it's hard to love a book to which the answer to the central question is "by being a dick".
If you have not read Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, I think you would enjoy it, if only for the number of characters and locations you would recognize. A fun and timely read, with a moral you'll appreciate, if not a great work of literature.
One of my favorite modern mystery series is Emma Jameson's Lord & Lady Hetheridge stories--many similarities with Inspector Lynley but less angstful and more focused on the mysteries themselves.
I quite enjoyed Cory Doctorow's Pirate Cinema, mostly for the depiction of a group of true friends enjoying an unconventional life together and engaging in true passion projects.
That's probably enough for "recently" :)