That looks interesting - I’m going to have to look for it. I really enjoyed her “Small Change” series.
I have a craptacular head cold, so I opted to go for “potato chip” reading today. I started Glory in Death the 2nd book in JD Robb’s In Death series. Mary Sues are good for sinus congestion 
I just finished Anne Rule’s Practice to Deceive. Absolutely not up to her usual standards; many inconsistencies and repeated statements…as if the book was never edited. I hope she’s not losing her touch.
I’ve been enjoying the late crop of Nordic crime writers (Larsson, Nesbo, Mankell) so I’m about to start Camilla Lackberg’s The Stonecutter.
Started Henry Miller’s Tropic of Capricorn this month, the lists are getting tiresome.
I read The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott. The book centers around a cotton mill worker in the 1830’s and what happens when a co-worker of hers is murdered. Very fast paced historical fiction. The main character is a bit too angelic to be real but as a whole it is a very well done novel.
Just finished The Bullet Catcher’s Daughter, by Rod Duncan. Steampunk with excellent world-building. Great Britain has been divided in two, the north, with Scotland, into a superego-like Republic, where women are respected and logic rules, and the idl-like Kingdom in the south, which is colorful and creative, but aristocrats can hold indentured servants like slaves. The agents of the Patent Office, like a powerful UN or League of Nations, rule in all countries, and seek out and destroy unseemly inventions. Our protagonist is a private intelligencer who grew up in a traveling carnival and is an expert cross-dresser. Good fun.
Am now reading Clare DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway, the sequel to** Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead,** by Sara Gran. It’s present-day noir mixed with philosophy, quirky in the right ways, and good. I recommend it.
I’m currently about 80% of the way through The Silkworm, the second Cormoran Strike novel from Robert Galbraith – aka J.K. Rowling. I’m enjoying it quite a bit, as I did the first novel.
Your description sounded interesting enough for me to check it out on Amazon; it has since been added to my wish list. Thanks!
I’ve seen the (IMO excellent) movie several times, and I always forget that there’s a book! That has also been added to my wish list. 
Also, when I looked it up on Amazon, I discovered that it’s the second book in a series (“Greentown Book 2”). I went ahead and also added Greentown Book 1 – Dandelion Wine – just because.
It’s been ages since I read Dandelion Wine, I really ought to reread it.
Those of you reading Something Wicked This Way Comes, might be interested in this From the Dust Returned. It’s more in the vein of Halloween Tree and** Dandelion Wine** but I enjoyed it.
Lists of orifices, girls, perversions, types of booze, or something else…?
I mentioned that one in the August list - glad someone else is enjoying it!
I’m a few chapters into Kim - one that I’d meant to read for a long time but never got around to it. He’s a cheeky little blighter, is Kim. Just finished the chapter where the lama ignores the cobra and teaches Kim to do the same.
I read some more stories by Lord Dunsany (Time and the Gods, Tales of Wonder, The Book of Wonder). I also ready Tales of War, a collection of his stories about World War One published in 1918; some were funny, some were sad, and some showed a lot of bitterness against the Kaiser.
Now I’m reading Ambrose Bierce’s Fantastic Fables which is a collection of…jokes, I guess? They’re really too short to be short stories and they’re too long to be quips.
I just read this too and agree; it’s great fun. I often don’t read more than the initial ‘set-up’ volume of a series, but I’m fairly sure I’ll read the next one in this set when it comes out…
Currently spending time on both Amundsen’s autobiography, My Life as an Explorer (1927) and Edward M. Lerner’s Energized, set in an energy-poor near future about the fight (literally) to beam energy down from orbiting satellites. It’s not bad but I doubt I’d miss it if I stop reading any time.
Only book I’m currently reading is Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver. It’s all right, but I must confess that I prefer Kingsolver’s nonfiction to her fiction.
Recently finished The Rook, which I discovered by reading previous editions of this thread. Also have What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People sitting at home waiting for me to start reading it. I actually order it around Labor Day, and while the first few pages were enticing, I put it down until I could better focus on it (I’m trying to hold down a full-time job, re-certify as an EMT, and get married, all in the same month). I hope to get back to it soon!
I’m about halfway through this too. I knew there were loads of Biblical pre- and proscriptions but had no idea of most of the reasoning behind same. Trying to adopt all of them leaves Mr. Jacobs’ life in quite an amusing muddle most of the time but in others, touches his life with unexpected poignancy. I’m riveted.
The first time I read The Lies of Locke Lamora I liked it. The second time I read it I didn’t. It’s a good story but there are several things wrong with it:
- It goes on too long.
- I get tired of flashing back every other chapter. By the end it was just getting ridiculous. Keep the story moving! (See #1.)
- If Locke is such a master trickster, why did he keep shooting himself in the foot? What was the point of imitating the Midnighters at the beginning? Why didn’t he try to find a way out of the bind the Grey King put him in? Why did he keep trying to steal clothes from the clerks at the bank? He did way too many boneheaded things for me to take him seriously as a thief by the end.
I am curious as to what happens next, though. Eventually I’ll pick up the other two books just for the closure.
Me too, and well put.
Finally gave up on The Namesake. Reached the 50-page mark and didn’t find it engaging enough to continue.
I finished Rooms and liked it quite a bit. I hope you do too, Misnomer!
Now I’m on to Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife (catching up on some horror classics lately). I wonder if this was the source material for the TV show “Bewitched”.
I finished Barry Eisler’s 3rd John Rain book Rain Storm, I’m really surprisingly enjoying a series where the main character is an assasin. I haven’t read a lot of espionage, thriller types of books so this is a new adventure for me.
Eisler does a MUCH better job of getting into his assasin’s head than Daniel Silva does with his character Gabriel Allon. Over all I think Eisler’s seris is the better one.
I am also reading The Golem and the Jinni based on reviews a couple of months ago. Liking it more than I expected.
Just finished The Paper Magician, light, easy, soon to be forgotten.
I tried to read this and got about 1/2 way thru and didn’t really care about any of the characters. If it gets better let me know.