My reading rate has totally slowed down the last few weeks. Between holiday preparedness, and not especially liking my current commuting book (at least not yet, it's Tim Lebbon's The Nature of Balance) I just haven't been hurrying through much of anything. I have finished a few books since I last posted though.

I finally tracked down a copy of Tim Powers' Night Moves at the library and read it. It was decent, but he's one of those authors that should stick to novels. Richard Russo's Risk Pool was quite good. He does a good job of making you care about naturally not that sympathetic characters (lots of alcoholics, guys that have run out on their families, thieves, etc). And I read Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days which is a book of short graphic stories. Worth reading, but not as good as the sandman stuff. (Especially since I don't know the background story on things like the Swamp Thing).
posted by Kristin Buxton at 10:16 AM