I finished Working For the Devil by Lilith Saintcrow. It was pretty lame. I don’t expect much from these books, just light entertainment, but this one was worse than usual. I don’t recommend it.
Next in the queue: An Unpardonable Crime, which features a young Edgar Alan Poe in a detective novel. It has promise - we’ll see.
Ah, yes. Just finished Jordan and am reading Demon Haunted World right now. It is, indeed, quite good.
Which reminds me: Entertainment Weekly just did a bit on not one but two new novels with Poe as a protagonist: The Pale Blue Eye, by Louise Bayard, about a murder mystery set during Poe’s time at West Point, and The Poe Shadow, by Matthew Pearl, about Poe’s death. Haven’t read either of them, but am curious about them, esp. the former.
You’ll love it. It’s so totally awesome.
I’m reading 20th Century Ghosts, a collection of horror fiction by Joe Hill. Original and very well-written. I haven’t read any horror this good for years. I’m blown away. I want to sit and read it straight through, but I want to draw it out too.
There’s a sweet story about a ghost who haunts a movie theater, a stomach-turner about a boy who turns into an insect, and a really horrific story-within-a-story about a horror editor who meets a horror writer. So far my favorite is “Pop Art”, about an inflatable boy.
The book isn’t published in the US yet, so it’s pricey ($40), but libraries might have it.
The first time I read it, I didn’t like overwhelmingly, but the second time I cried for hours. I was lent it by a friend, who said it was one of his favourite books. I love it now, although I still want to smack both Henry and Claire sometimes.
I am still waiting patiently for Kushiel’s Scion, and (very dumb guilty pleasure) the next Midnight Louie book, by Carole Nelson Douglas. There have been what, twenty? And the main characters are so flipping irritating! I think I just really want some kind of resolution to the soap opera of her main character’s love life.
I just re-read Bird By Bird, Anne Lammott’s excellent book on writing. She’s very funny and irreverent.
Heh. Funny way to describe a staunch Christian. Have you read her Traveling Mercies, and the new one, the name of which I can’t think of offhand? I copied out her rules for living from the latter and have them hanging on the inside of my medicine cabinet (which is where I post all words of wisdom):
I’m a big fan, and anyone who works with word, or wants to, absolutely must read Bird by Bird
I finished The Way of All Flesh a few days ago, and now I’m a few pages into To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. It’s a short one, and while I’m waiting for the library to get I, Claudius on interloan, I got An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. That one will take longer, and it sounds like a barrel of laughs.
Yes, it is. It gets published this month, and seems to be coming straight to trade paperback like the other two books.
Well I’d never heard of it, and I’m the only one who counts. 
I’ve only just started, but I can see that certainly in the interests of brevity, Miyazaki has had to make some cuts. I’d still recommend the movie by itself, but then I recommend almost all his movies, so that’s nothing new. 
A Demon Haunted World is one of the few tomes I’ve read twice - I just think it’s a shame it had to be Sagan’s last book.
Since I’m posting again, I’ll recommend * Phantoms in the brain* by Dr. Ramachandran (which was recommended by someone in another thread). It’s not quite as good as Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat as numbers of case studies go, but he’s quite good at explaining his reasonings and experiments and so on.
I was doing the 50-book challenge this year. It’s now the 100 book challenge as I hit 50 last month.
I recently discovered the Patrick O’Brien series but not very far into it yet. I just ordered the third in the series (HMS Surprise) so I have a long way to go.
Presently reading The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte which is extremely riveting and makes me wish I knew more about book collecting.
Also reading the last of the Tripods series, The Pool of Fire by John Cristopher, which was recommended on this board. It’s a young adult series which started out great but now I’m losing interest. Unfortunately when I start a series, I cannot leave it incomplete so I make myself continue. (This is why Robert Jordan tortures me so. Dave Sim too, but at least his series has an end that I’m slowly working towards.)
Just finished One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, also recommended here I believe. As it’s title states, it’s a day in the life of a prisoner in a Siberian labour camp.
Now that I think on it, I have to blame this board for my 500+ titles on my Amazon wish list. I need to avoid these threads!
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith. Yes, I’ve read it. I love the part about the importance of stoning 13 year olds, esepcially Jesus.