(Maybe if I don’t say anything, no one will notice this is Thursday.)
What are you currently reading? Devices and Desires by K. J. Parker. This is a luxury reread for me, as I’ve exhausted all of Parker’s publications to date, even the limited-edition novellas. Now I am returning to my favorite Parker trilogy, the Engineer Trilogy, and am enjoying it madly, again.
What have you recently finished reading? The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop by Stephen Koch. I’m pretending this answer counts as “finished,” even though I strictly have two chapters left. But I’m going to read them as soon as I’m done with the first Parker novel, and then I will have finally completed this month’s nonfiction book. #bestintentions
What do you think you’ll read next? The Tenth of December by George Saunders. This is a new short story collection by an author whose works were introduced to me in graduate school. I’m not as rabid a fan as some of my classmates, but I am interested enough to reserve it from the library. Unfortunately, so are others who have reservations waiting after me, which limits me to two weeks of custody. I’ll do a quick peruse-and-return, and then it’s on to Engineer Trilogy book two, Evil for Evil. Yes, it’s as wonderfully grim as it sounds.
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