# Whatcha Readin' (Apr 09) Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443 "2009-03-31T15:30:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/41 "2009-04-03T17:13:00Z")
> [@Greywolf73](#): > > Yay! I love this one. You should post a discussion thread when you’re done. I did a few years ago and not many people had read it. > > I’ve put Drood aside too. It’s not pulling me in like The Terror did. I don’t think anything can live up to that one though. I’m currently reading Lost City of Z and it’s an incredible book–reads like an adventure novel except that it’s all true. > > I just finished The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It’s the best book I’ve read yet this year, by far. It’s a favorite of Stephen King’s and no wonder because it’s basically Stephen King lite. Post-apocalyptic and reminds me of The Long Walk and The Most Dangerous Game. It’s a YA novel but don’t let that stop you from reading it. [Amazon.com: The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One) (1): 9780439023481: Collins, Suzanne: Books](http://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Games-Suzanne-Collins/dp/0439023483/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238765919&sr=8-1) > > Has anyone read One Second After by William Forstchen? I’ve managed to track down a used copy on amazon but it seems to be backordered everywhere else. I read a couple of reviews and couldn’t resist since it’s another post-apocalyptic novel I haven’t read yet. I can’t seem to restrain myself from those. Wow, 6 books added to my wish list from one post! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/42 "2009-04-03T17:58:04Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I’m reading **The Double Bind** which weaves in fictional characters from The Great Gatsby. It seems like a violation but then I remember that The Double Bind is also fiction. :smack: > > Reminds me of Atonement > > when I felt betrayed that the whole book turned out to be “fiction”, when the whole book is already fiction. Layers of fiction bug me. Or like when they reveal in the last page that the whole story you invested time and thought on was an alternate reality and the person died back on page one…how can I really be betrayed when none of it was really True? But I am… Well, I finished it. It’s way too much like Atonement–at least parts of the book are supposed to be the mad ramblings of the main character, and not really “true”, but I was fooled by one of the devices used. Damn it. Just like every movie has to have a twist at the end, these damn books where nothing you supposed was real was. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/43 "2009-04-03T20:51:09Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > And actually, I just finished reading _The Apple_, which is Faber’s companion piece to _The Crimson Petal_, comprised of short stories focusing on a different character from the novel. The last story in particular clears up some of the questions regarding the novel’s ending. OMG! How did I not know this! :eek: “Find out what happens to Sophie” _Adds to Amazon shopping cart_ Thanks so much for mentioning this. > [@wonderlust](#): > > Wow, 6 books added to my wish list from one post! Heh. I like to give back to these threads. I found The Terror through a Whatcha Reading thread last year, actually. Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/44 "2009-04-03T21:17:42Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > [Pride and Prejudice and Zombies](http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238776471&sr=8-1) is now MINE! > > I rarely buy books, but I couldn’t pass this one up at all. > Elizabeth Bennett and Zombies! Who could ask for anything more? I’m a couple chapters into it and have been SQUUUUUUEEEEEEING in delight like a total spaz to ANYONE who makes eye contact with me over the wonderfulness of the mixture of Jane Austen and Zombies. “Excuse me, you’ve got Jane Austen in my zombie massacre.” " Well, you have zombies in my Jane Austen novel!" Two! Two! Two genres in One! I’ll shut up now…ok, maybe I won’t. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/45 "2009-04-03T22:05:04Z")
Quoth me: > [@](#): > > I’m currently working my way through the complete works of St. Augustine. I should be done some time in the next day or two. I’m very disappointed that nobody called me on this one… OK, I was a little early for the 1st, but it was the April thread, after all, and I referenced the next day. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/46 "2009-04-03T23:51:00Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > And actually, I just finished reading _The Apple_, which is Faber’s companion piece to _The Crimson Petal_, comprised of short stories focusing on a different character from the novel. The last story in particular clears up some of the questions regarding the novel’s ending. Oh, _excellent_! I’m so excited, I had not heard about that. Unfortunately, it turns out that the book I got by mistake from the library because I confused the title with a book that a Doper recommended in last month’s reading thread is completely goofy. _The Spiritualist_ … the spiritualist of the title is supposed to be a French Creole, and so he sprinkles Ouis and Nons in all of his dialogue, making him sound like a Saturday Night Live skit about the French. I’m also reading Oliver Sacks’s _Musicophilia : Tales of Music and the Brain_ which is pretty good. I’m a big fan of his other books … but being a severely tone deaf person myself, it’s weird to read him describing my experience of the world as a defect. It’s more entertaining to read about other people’s brain defects, it turns out. ☹ YA titles: _A Curse Dark As Gold_, by Elizabeth Bunce. This was not bad – a retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin story, somewhat similar in tone to Robin McKinney’s stuff. And another YA: _The Compound_ by S.A. Bodeen, which was DELICIOUS in its melodramatic, overwroughty teen lamentation. I mean that as a compliment, really. A family goes underground in a high-tech luxury fallout shelter, and then the teen protagonist starts discovering deep, dark family secrets. Completely unbelievable but extremely satisfying, like _On the Beach_ meets _Flowers In The Attic._ Awesome. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/47 "2009-04-04T00:34:23Z")
Books in progress: _Wishful Drinking_, Carrie Fisher - too much forced cleverness, not her best _Tales From Moominvalley_, Tove Jansson - quirky kid tales, wonderful _A Matter of Justice_, Charles Todd - post WWI mystery, pretty engaging, so far and the winner is: > [@](#): > > _I don’t know why we long so for the dead > Who can do us no good, eventually, > Like you, a flood of stars will drown us all._ > > – Bruce Weigl, _Archeology of the Circle: New and Selected Poems_ Who knew war poetry could be beautiful? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/48 "2009-04-04T01:13:03Z")
_Dracula_, by Bram Stoker. It’s awesome. A book about the classic horror movie stars. (Did you ever notice that [Michael Jackson](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/michaeljacksonmug1.html) looks a LOT like Lon Chaney Sr. did in [_The Phantom of the Opera_](http://www.silentgents.com/PChaney3.html)?) And the _Twilight_ series, just to see if it’s as bad as everyone says it is. (I haven’t gotten to the sparkle scenes yet, though) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/49 "2009-04-04T04:43:40Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > You need [Notes on the League](http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7160/league1.html). Heck, **I** need Notes on the League. Very cool. Is there anything like that for _LXG: Black Dossier_ (the ending of which left me baffled)? ---
**Author:** ![Enterprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/76d3ee/32.png) [@Enterprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enterprise)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/50 "2009-04-04T09:33:21Z")
I’ve not got much interesting on my April plate, I’m afraid. I don’t know why, it’s not for a lack of books certainly. I’m reading Tad Williams’s _Mountain of Black Glass_, third in the _Otherland_ quadrilogy (finally SOME answers!), which is going to be done tomorrow, I think, or at the latest Monday on the train. Then I have Robert J. Butow’s _The John Doe Associates_ on the desk, hoping to gain an insight into some of the goings-on behind the scenes during the pivotal last twelve months before Pearl Harbor. It’s a tougher read than Butow’s _Tojo and the Coming of the War_, so far. I’m also reading Akhil Reed Amar’s _America’s Constitution: A Biography_, which is really excellent, but I’m getting to loath his cliff-hanger sentences, like “this was one of the only two times were this or that happened,” without telling us what the other time was. Come on man, that’s not too hard. And that’s it already… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/51 "2009-04-04T12:14:52Z")
> [@Nom\_de\_Plume](#): > > \*Glass Books of the Dream Eaters - Volume One \*by Gordon Dahlquist – Actually just started this one. It turns out to be pretty different than I expected. I expected more Sci-fi, but it seems to be romance as well. I’ll probably give it time since it’s already piqued my interest. Anyone who’s read it: Is it worth continuing? Bought this when a friend gave me a Kindle (went through my Amazon wishlist looking for books available on Kindle, and this was one – it was on my wishlist as an SDMB recommendation). I liked it a _lot_ through about the first half, maybe 3/4 – but then it just started getting tedious and confusing. With the possible exception of the three main characters, everyone in it is a complete cardboard cutout, so I was having problems keeping straight who was who. I kept thinking that it would be a great movie, in which you could just sort them out visually and watch all the running around. Apparently a sequel just came out – I’m not feeling a burning need to read it. > [@Greywolf73](#): > > Yay! I love this one [_The Crimson Petal and the White_]. You should post a discussion thread when you’re done. I did a few years ago and not many people had read it. > [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > That’s one of my favorites! Last month, I listened to the audiobook while at work – it’s 42 hours long, but the narrator reads pretty slowly, so it should take you much less time to sight-read your way through it. 🙂 > > And actually, I just finished reading _The Apple_, which is Faber’s companion piece to _The Crimson Petal_, comprised of short stories focusing on a different character from the novel. The last story in particular clears up some of the questions regarding the novel’s ending. > > (On preview: I’d be totally up for a discussion thread on _The Crimson Petal_. I have some questions about Henry I want to ask…) I liked this a whole lot when I read it on vacation four or five years ago (vacation is the time to read it – I polished the whole thing off in a little more than 24 hours). There was a really good thread at that time, which you wouldn’t want to disinter, of course, but might be worth reading. **gallows fodder** : One thing I recall discussing in that thread was the ending – I read the book too long ago to want to read the companion book, but am curious about that. Let me spoiler my question: It was my interpretation that the body they found at the end wasn’t the wife’s – sorry, I don’t recall any character names at all – and that she had “escaped.” Was it or was it not the wife? > [@Chronos](#): > > Quoth me:I’m very disappointed that nobody called me on this one… OK, I was a little early for the 1st, but it was the April thread, after all, and I referenced the next day. In this crowd, complete works of Augustine isn’t out of the question. 😉 > [@delphica](#): > > I’m also reading Oliver Sacks’s _Musicophilia : Tales of Music and the Brain_ which is pretty good. I’m a big fan of his other books … but being a severely tone deaf person myself, it’s weird to read him describing my experience of the world as a defect. It’s more entertaining to read about other people’s brain defects, it turns out. ☹ I borrowed this from a friend but couldn’t get into it, which was a disappointment, because my recollection of his early books (which I read more than a decade ago, probably longer) was that I enjoyed them. The problem I had was that it was all just little bits and pieces of things, no coherent narrative or overall theoretical structure that it fit into. Put it down and have been utterly uninterested in picking it back up. I had been reading Richard Dawkins’s _Ancestor’s Tale_, and I’m about halfway through it (that puppy is long) and fully intend to return to it, but paused to read several things on sustainability to prep for a job interview (_Garbage Land, You Are Here_, etc.). Then _The Seance_ came in, which I’d requested at the library after **Dung Beetle** ’s reference in last month’s thread, so I stopped the first detour for a second detour. Totally not what I expected, which is more about my reading comprehension of her post and not what she said. I was expecting it to be about fake spiritualists, which has long been a side interest of mine (my academic background is sociology of religion/American cults), which is where it starts, but not at all where it ends up. Very twisty plot. Not my usual thing, but entertaining. One question, for **Dung Beetle** or anyone else who has read it, about the mysterious armor in the gallery. It turns out that Uncle Cornelius wasn’t an alchemy buff/dabbler in electricity – so why was the armor built, and who had it built and installed? And now I’m back to sustainability stuff, though the interview was yesterday and I’m feeling this morning like I totally fucking blew it (sigh). Currently reading _Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming_, which is about not only about the phenomenon itself, but various scientists whose theories help explain/describe it, the tycoons whose factories were a major cause of it, the Anasazi Indians whose disappearance has been attributed to it, etc. Entertaining read. ---
**Author:** ![Bamboo\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Bamboo\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bamboo_Boy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/52 "2009-04-04T12:43:17Z")
> [@vdgg81](#): > > I have just finished _A Short History of Nearly Everything_ by Bill Bryson and liked it a lot. I’m now reading _The Pursuit of Victory - The Life and Achievements of Horatio Nelson_ by Roger Knight and _Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid_ by Douglas R. Hofstadter. I’m at the beginning of both and both seem very interesting. We have similar tastes! like Bill Bryson a lot, I liked the book you are reading very very much and I also enjoyed a lot of his travel books. I read GEB by Hoftstadter, it took me three tries to get through it. I have pushed it on many a friend and none of them have read it all the way through and I have lacked anyone to pontificate about it with. Now it’s fading from my memory. It was a searingly ambitious, fascinating, whimsical yet challenging read. Though written decades and decades ago now (hard to believe), it seems that the way that he advocated looking at the mind (and considering and defining ‘intelligence’) and consciousness more or less prevailed. There are endless felicities to be found hidden in that book, too- hidden ‘Easter Eggs’, relevant patterns, etc… I am currently reading something entirely different, though it’s the second time around with these books for me- Spring Snow, by Yukio Mishima, the first in his Tetralogy called The Sea of Fertility. It’s INCREDIBLE. If I start in about it I may never stop, it’s unbearably beautiful, poignant writing. Of course I’m reading it in English, which bugs me (the idea of translation) but what am I gonna do? Speaking of translation, Hofstadter wrote a flawed but entertaining and incredibly thoughtful book called Le Ton Beau de Marot. Despite the title, it’s in English, and all about translation. I seem to remember that it wasn’t received well, but I REALLY enjoyed it all the same. Ever since reading that book, reading translated literature has had an added dimension of wonder and mystery for me. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/53 "2009-04-04T20:19:53Z")
**twickster** : [spoiler]Agnes’s fate isn’t addressed directly, but in one of the stories, a 50-something William thinks about Agnes and asks himself again if he is sure the woman in the morgue was his wife. Personally, I think these doubts are supposed to indicate to the reader that the woman _wasn’t_ Agnes, but who knows? (William basically tells himself, “Of course she was, silly!” but William was always self-deluding.) The big reveal at the end of _The Apple_ is that Sugar and Sophie traveled the world together after their flight from London. The story focuses on events in 1908 and is narrated by Sophie’s son, Henry. Sophie was a suffragette and lived in Australia with her husband, son, and live-in female companion/probable lover for a time, and then they all moved back to England in 1908. Sugar, presumably dead by now, had left her fortune to Sophie. The plot of the story involves Sophie and young Henry wandering away from a women’s rights march in London and trying to find the Rackham house in Chepstow Villas.[/spoiler] I’ll look for that old _Crimson Petal_ thread and perhaps start a new one in a week or so. ---
**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/54 "2009-04-04T21:59:25Z")
I’m reading two books at present. The first is _Sabriel_ by Garth Nix, which IIRC was recommended on this board. The setting is really unusual and the characters are well drawn. My only problem is that I need to know what the immediate sequel is called and the library catalog system isn’t being helpful. Any YA fans know the sequence of titles in this series (I assume it’s a series)? The other book is _Regenesis_ by C. J. Cherryh. It’s the sequel to _Cyteen_, which I re-read just last year so the story was relatively fresh in my mind. Which is good because this one picks up just weeks after _Cyteen_ ended. It’s not a book I would recommend as an introduction to Cherryh, or even science fiction in general, because it’s a long psychological drama and stuff doesn’t start blowing up until over halfway through. I’m digging it, but then I loved the previous book. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/55 "2009-04-04T22:06:35Z")
> [@plankter](#): > > I’m reading two books at present. The first is _Sabriel_ by Garth Nix, which IIRC was recommended on this board. The setting is really unusual and the characters are well drawn. My only problem is that I need to know what the immediate sequel is called and the library catalog system isn’t being helpful. Any YA fans know the sequence of titles in this series (I assume it’s a series)? Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/56 "2009-04-04T22:16:16Z")
I really enjoyed the Abhorsen trilogy. I’ll be interested in hearing what you think. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/57 "2009-04-04T23:35:38Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > I really enjoyed the Abhorsen trilogy. I’ll be interested in hearing what you think. My niece, who reads voraciously and is smart as a whip, really enjoyed _Sabriel_. Don’t know if she ever read beyond the first book, though. Here’s the Wiki article on it: [Sabriel - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabriel) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/58 "2009-04-05T00:00:21Z")
One of the neat things, IMO, is that Nix has created a (what I believe to be) unique world of magic. His magic works unlike any other fantasy realm that I have seen. That is part of what made it fun for me. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/59 "2009-04-06T16:52:18Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > **twickster** : > > Agnes’s fate isn’t addressed directly, but in one of the stories, a 50-something William thinks about Agnes and asks himself again if he is sure the woman in the morgue was his wife. Personally, I think these doubts are supposed to indicate to the reader that the woman _wasn’t_ Agnes, but who knows? (William basically tells himself, “Of course she was, silly!” but William was always self-deluding.) Thanks! My interpretation was that she had lived,-- because would he really recognize her headless body? – but a lot of people in that other thread disagreed. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443/60 "2009-04-06T17:47:37Z")
> [@delphica](#): > > And another YA: _The Compound_ by S.A. Bodeen, which was DELICIOUS in its melodramatic, overwroughty teen lamentation. I mean that as a compliment, really. A family goes underground in a high-tech luxury fallout shelter, and then the teen protagonist starts discovering deep, dark family secrets. Completely unbelievable but extremely satisfying, like _On the Beach_ meets _Flowers In The Attic._ Awesome. Oooooh, really? 🙂 I’d like to say I’m continuing with the Dresden Files series, but my library has yet to get me Blood Rites, which is next up. Maybe in a day or two… In the meantime, I’m about to pick up Robert Rankin’s Necrophenia, which will be light, forgettable, and fun. I’d have started already, but it didn’t seem like quite the thing for reading at the Department of Motor Vehicles. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-apr-09-edition/491443.md?page=4)