- The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2), Neal Stephenson
- Perdido Street Station, China Miéville
- Twenty-One Stories, S. Y. Agnon
- Darkly Dreaming Dexter : A Novel, Jeff Lindsay
Rae asked before to let her know how I liked the new Alexander McCall Smith book, starring Isabel Dalhousie, his new heroine. Didn’t like it much, and so didn’t finish the thing, sorry. I like cozy mysteries, but this was a little too cozy and soft. Oh, well.
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