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The "completed books" number is adding up at a much more satisfactory rate. Since the last post:

21. Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury. This was a surprise birthday gift from redknight (Thanks again!) that just made it to the top of the "to read" stack. For some reason, I'd never managed to read it before now.


22. Summer Knight, Jim Butcher. More Dresden Files; this one finds Harry, thanks to receiving a proposition he literally can't refuse, getting himself caught in the middle of a war between the two Faerie Courts and on the hook for saving the world. No pressure or anything.


23. Death Masks, Jim Butcher. Felt to me like there was a bit too much going on. While the duel with Red Court vampire Ortega wouldn't be enough to flesh out an entire book on its own, it seemed like a distraction from the storyline involving the missing Shroud of Turin and everyone (including Harry, the Knights of the Cross, and a bunch of nasty demons) out hunting for it. But hey, Susan's back in town!


24. I Want to Buy a Vowel: A Novel of Illegal Alienation, John Welter. An illegal immigrant who knows only a few words of English picked up from TV makes his way to a small Texas town in search of the land of cash and prizes, where he's befriended by the two young daughters of a preacher. I didn't find Welter's satirical look at immigration and religious hysteria to be as amusing overall as Night of the Avenging Blowfish, but there are some gems scattered throughout.