D’oh! Missed yours completely.
Ahh, it’s all good then and I won’t have to bother a mod to fix it. 
There are a couple of books cracked upon right now or just finished:
Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Craynor’s Welcome to Night Vale, which is a novel set in the town of the duo’s podcast. I’d not heard of the podcast at all, and just bought this because I’ve grown interested in novels produced from internet phenomena (like blogs and such). It’s…weird. Like the podcast, apparently. Utterly fantastically weird, but very intriguing. Will definitely get through this.
Finished already: Roger Luckhurst’s Zombies: A Cultural History. I think I’ve read about everything written on the zombie by now, so I can fairly evaluate this one. It’s very strong early on: the connections between U.S. popular culture and Haiti, the first introduction of a zombie, and then the 1950s and the parallels between post-war evangelical millenialism and the zombie figure. But I think he suffers from having a narrative to tell, namely that the Caribbean/African/vodoun zombie remains the most crucial lynchpin of the zombie narrative, and this clouds his readings of later texts such as Romero’s films and, more especially, the 2000s boom. He’s not wrong to suggest that there’s always Haiti underneath these texts, but it’s just not very helpful for his readings. And he doesn’t really add much to the discussion of either Romero or the 2000s films, comics, games, and books. So great book in the first half, decent summary with clear opinions leaving much room for disagreement in the second.
Finally, I finished Mary Beard’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, which was excellent, with a few caveats. First, it’s not a narrative, chronological history of Rome’s rise and fall so much as a history of its…well, its citizens, maybe–the way the Roman empire constituted power, how live was lived, what sort of place it was, and so on. So it’ll talk about Julius Caeser being in Gaul, but it won’t tell you why he is there, what he’s doing there, and so on. You need a little bit of background on Roman history, I think, to fully appreciate this book. Second, if you’ve seen Beard’s BBC shows, much will seem familiar: some of the same anecdotes. Finally, it could have used a little bit more care in editing: about a dozen times, it will tell you that it ends with the Emperor Caracalla’s granting of citizenship to all people in the Roman empire, and by the third time, I thought to myself, yes, I know. In other words, the book still shows the cracks were it was glued together (as all books are). Still, very very worthwhile, and just a joy to read.