What are you currently reading? Nothing. I’m between books. And last week when I said I was between books but picked out the book I was reading next, I ended up finishing three other books before I finally read it. So this week I’ll just list the two books I bought today: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler and Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre.
What did you recently finish reading? The Fitting Room by Kelly Minter, whose study on Ruth I prefer to her nonfiction. Before that, I read Pure by Julianna Baggott (will not read the forthcoming sequels) and Clay’s Ark by Octavia E. Butler (not as good as Lilith’s Brood and certainly not Bloodchild).
What do you think you’ll read next? Death of an Artist by Kate Wilhelm, a standalone mystery by the author of Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, about clones, which I read last year. I’ve selected it because I’ve used up all three renewals, and the library finally wants its book back.
On Audiobooks. Listened to The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde, a Nursery Crime novel featuring detectives Jack Spratt and Mary Mary. Am a third of the way into Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, which is so quintessential an example of literary romanticism that I often burst out laughing.
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