For no apparent reason I've had the opening number to Guys And Dolls ("Fugue For Tinhorn") stuck in my head all day.
...Epitaph...
What are you reading right now?
The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks, in which a rich heir whose mother committed suicide and who slept with his cousin returns to his family. I am not sure what I think of it; it seems unlikely to be a keeper.
Technically I haven't yet given up on John Crowley's Little, Big, which I've been carting around unread for nearly twenty years. But if it insists on meandering around the point much more (at nearly a hundred pages in), into the go-away pile it goes.
...Valentine...
What did you just finish reading?
A quick reread of Pinkwater's Lizard Music (about which see), because I finally got my hands on a nice copy of it.
Before that, Nicola Griffith's Slow River, which gets major points for being dystopian-ish (though the dystopian elements are now recognisably present in the real world) while being mostly populated with characters who are Decent Human Beings. The feel reminded me a little of Kelley Eskridge's Solitaire, which is probably not a coincidence, and of Susan Palwick's Shelter. Recommended.
...PaulRevere...
What do you think you'll read next?
Beats me. Something else off the unread stack, since I seem intent on making a dent in that.
... I got the horse! right! here!
...Epitaph...
What are you reading right now?
The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks, in which a rich heir whose mother committed suicide and who slept with his cousin returns to his family. I am not sure what I think of it; it seems unlikely to be a keeper.
Technically I haven't yet given up on John Crowley's Little, Big, which I've been carting around unread for nearly twenty years. But if it insists on meandering around the point much more (at nearly a hundred pages in), into the go-away pile it goes.
...Valentine...
What did you just finish reading?
A quick reread of Pinkwater's Lizard Music (about which see), because I finally got my hands on a nice copy of it.
Before that, Nicola Griffith's Slow River, which gets major points for being dystopian-ish (though the dystopian elements are now recognisably present in the real world) while being mostly populated with characters who are Decent Human Beings. The feel reminded me a little of Kelley Eskridge's Solitaire, which is probably not a coincidence, and of Susan Palwick's Shelter. Recommended.
...PaulRevere...
What do you think you'll read next?
Beats me. Something else off the unread stack, since I seem intent on making a dent in that.
... I got the horse! right! here!