Commuting to work downtown leaves all kinds of time for reading. The train ride goes a lot faster when buried in a book, though reading a lot first thing in the morning is taking some getting used to. My first commute book is finished. I read Paul J. McAuley's Pasquale's Angel. (I did cheat a little by finishing it at home last night, but who wants to only have a little bit of a book left for commuting and then, horrors, finishing it and not having anything to read the rest of the way home).

The book is probably best categorized as alternate history, but more in a general way than a specific "what if". It takes place in Florence where the main character is a painter. Other characters include Macchieveli, Michelangelo, Raphael, and the 'Great Engineer' (who I only had absolute confirmation on the identity of at the very end). I'm not sure I liked this one as well as Fairyland though they're hard to compare since they're very different books.

At home I'm working on Fuzzy Dice by Paul Di Filippo. I'm going to have to track down a copy at some point, since I'm not willing to steal the library's copy, which is what I'm reading. It's unfortunate that so many of Di Filippo's books are so obscurely published and in such limited numbers, but I suppose he's not for everyone.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 7:38 AM