Yay! Time to talk about books. Yep, it’s Wednesday.

What have you recently finished reading?

The last couple of things I’ve read were really short; the second volume of Dan Abnett’s Immortal Red Sonja, which I didn’t like, and Alix E. Harrow’s “The Knight and the Butcherbird”, which I did enjoy and is going to linger with me a bit. I’ve been needing short books a bit, since things are busy, and those both filled a hole.

Before that, I finished up reading Lara Maiklem’s A Mudlarking Year, which was very like the first book by her I read (Mudlarking). I liked it less than I liked Mudlarking, oddly enough for the same reasons as I liked that one, perhaps partly because I’d read more criticism of her possessive attitude over “her patch” and so on.

What are you currently reading?

I’m close to finishing up with Scarhaven Keep (J.S. Fletcher), which is a classic mystery that’s going exactly where I expected it to. There’s just one thing I’m wondering about, and I’m not sure I see where that’s going. Or rather, I hope that my vague thought is wrong, because that would be an annoying turn and I don’t think it’d make a lot of sense.

I’m also reading Peter Ackroyd’s Queer City, and I’m… not enchanted? It just feels like a series of lists, somehow: it’s a lot of information, and that without numbered references, so it’s hard to follow up even though there’s quite a lot of sources listed at the end. And it just doesn’t feel very… lively? I don’t know. Non-fiction can be very engaging, but this one’s not grabbing me.

What will you read next?

I’m not sure, as usual. I half-started Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones’ The Cleopatras, a couple of weeks ago, but barely passed the prologue. It’s on my Book Spin Bingo card for this month again, so I might dig further into that and get properly started. The Book Spin and Double Spin choices are Robert Jackson Bennett’s A Drop of Corruption and Anthony Boucher’s Rocket to the Morgue, so those are options too.

Or something totally random. Who knows!

How about you?