What are you currently reading? Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley. After work on Tuesday, when the fifth book in the mystery series starring eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce was released, I raced to the bookstore to pick up my reserved copy and tore it open the second I got home. And I haven’t been disappointed. Only sad that there aren’t ten more.
What did you recently finish reading? Remake by Connie Willis. I found this 1995 short novel at my favorite used bookstore and picked it up, of course, to complete my Connie Willis collection (I’m only missing a handful now). This lighthearted story is about Alis, a girl who wants to dance in the movies–decades after live-action film has given way to computer graphics. I recently recommended Blackout/All Clear to an acquaintance who likes time travel, because you can never go wrong with Willis.
What do you think you’ll read next? A library book, but I’m not sure which one. I have a choice of three good ones, each by an author new to me: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente (fantasy), Pure by Julianna Baggott (dystopian), or The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen (science fiction).
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