I have not done a lot of reading in the past week, mostly because it was concert week and I only had a few tiny snatches of time to read anything; I read some short fanfiction stories and one mystery. This week, I need to finish a book and write a review, so that's going to take precedence over pleasure reading.

Little Green by Walter Mosley, is ( Read more... )

Today I am finishing up a book for anonymous review, so I can't tell you what it is.

Earlier this week, I finished the new C.S. Harris, out in a few weeks, titled What Darkness Brings. These are the Regency-set mysteries with the twisty mytharc--well, there's no myth, but it makes me think of X-Files in structure--the mytharc is as compelling as ( Read more... )

I am sad this is my last day of vacation. But I plan to get some writing done ( Read more... )

I stayed up late to finish reading Dead and Buried by Barbara Hambly, then had to resist the urge to start the next one this morning.  There are two more that I haven't yet read, that I have been saving.  I resisted the urge.  I will save them a little more, while I do some reading for my WisCon panels.

Eight days until I depart for WisCon!  I need ( Read more... )

I stayed up an hour late to finish reading The Sleeping Partner by Madeleine Robins - it's the long-awaited third Sarah Tolerance mystery. I thought the mystery plot was really clever, and I enjoyed that Miss Tolerance's life seemed to be going a bit better, at least by the end of the novel. It didn't feel as noir as its predecessors, which was ( Read more... )

I heard belatedly that author Dorothy Gilman died. So I've started re-reading the first of hers I ever read, Mrs. Pollifax on Safari, which remained one of my favorites. Mrs. Pollifax is an older woman, a widow, who lives in New Jersey and raises geraniums. In an earlier book, she decided she needed more excitement and volunteers with the CIA. ( Read more... )

I am still coughing, even after resting as much as possible this weekend.

Saturday night, I finished watching The State Within, notable because Jason Isaacs plays a good guy! He made an excellent good guy, if you're wondering ( Read more... )

I spent a good portion of the weekend cleaning the kitchen counter and floor, washing bathroom rugs, doing (clothing) laundry, etc.. Saturday evening, I went to visit
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I leave for Readercon tomorrow ( Read more... )

Today I blogged about the Jetsons Future in the J.D. Robb mysteries featuring Eve Dallas. I'm down to the last four or five of that series, and starting to have Thoughts about it.