#79 Teacher's Dead by Benjamin Zephaniah

Social issues novel for kids. The voice of the narrator is pretty unconvincing, the plot is ridiculous and the prose is dull.

#80 The White Rose by Glen Cook

Read for review for Strange Horizons.

#81 Weight by Jeanette Winterson

Best of the Canongate Myths series so far.

#76 The Unblemished by Conrad Williams

"A bit heavy on the old numinous" as one character puts it.

It is a long time since I've read a horror novel and I think I've simply forgotten how to do it. I was having a hard time with the literature of effect thing. The Unblemished seemed to me to be an incoherent jangle of images, purple prose and ( Read more... )