A few days ago I polished off The Reader's Quotation Book edited by Steven Gilbar. Some nice quotes but I'm not quite sure why I bothered to buy it. Fortunately Powells took it off my hands when I splurged there a bit on Wednesday (list forthcoming).

Last night I finally finished Jeff VanderMeer's The City of Saints and Madmen. I really enjoyed it though it wasn't a particularly fast read. It's a linked series of novellas about a city named Ambergris. It could be probably best classified as one of those books that's probably fantasy (since if it takes place on Earth it's not any Earth I know about) but doesn't have any magic or elves or swordfighting. Feel-wise it's probably the most similar to the little bit I've read by China Mieville. I'd recommend it, but probably not to everyone.

I started Tom Robbins' Villa Incognito.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 2:56 PM