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Back on track, almost.

5. Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi, Raficq Abdulla. ( These words of mine are no stones )


6. Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. I've never really read Batman comics, and mostly I picked this up because of the Victorian setting/steampunk-ish angle. The first half, "Gotham by Gaslight", was excellent, with Batman pursuing Jack the Ripper through 19th-century Gotham. The second half, "Master of the Future", wasn't nearly as compelling.


7. Grave Peril, Jim Butcher. Book three of The Dresden Files. I accidentally lost my hold on book two and there are now 11 people ahead of me, so I skipped ahead to book three when it came up on my hold list. Harry and his friend Michael, a Knight of the Cross, have got to deal with angry ghosts (and figure out who's stirring them up), a whole honkin' lot of vampires, and Harry's fairy godmother. Kind of amusing to read Bianca in this book after watching the recent interaction between Bianca and Harry on the TV series. (As Jim Butcher says, "The show is not the books. It is not meant to follow the same story. It is meant as an alternate world, where the overall background and story-world is similar, but not all the same things happen.")


8. Mistral's Kiss, Laurell K. Hamilton. I am really glad I got this from the library and didn't spend any money for it. Sheesh. Essentially a 200-something-page sex scene that advances the plot by about what -- four, five hours? At least this time there is some plot advancement, miniscule though it might be. While I will read the rest of the books in the series, I think I'll continue getting them from the library rather than the bookstore.

We get questions.

As part of an effort to get myself more consistently answering comments/email/etc., I think I'll try participating in this.

Ask me a question, and I'll answer if I can. Comments are screened, anonymous commenting has always been allowed.

Caveat: I will be driving to Boston tomorrow and back on Sunday, and will not have much (if any) access over the weekend, but I'll try and catch up with any weekend questions on Monday.