It’s that time again!

What have you recently finished reading?

Anthony Boucher’s Rocket to the Morgue, which is a fascinating meeting of two genres I love: it’s a mystery, but it’s a mystery about the classic pulp era of SF, and a lot of the characters are based on those writers: Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, etc. It feels weirdly like a book that could be written now out of nostalgia, though it was first published in 1942. I enjoyed it, and I’m curious about the other books featuring Sister Ursula.

What are you currently reading?

I started Daniel M. Ford’s Necrobane finally, yesterday — I meant to start it soon after finishing The Warden, but got distracted, as I often do. It took me a minute to pick up some of the threads again, but I’m enjoying it so far, and feel like some of the things that annoyed me have improved (Aelis doesn’t talk to herself so much).

Wish she’d talk to other people more, though… she’s keeping a secret she really ought not keep. As so often, I expect that to soon drive some drama.

I’m also reading Glenn McDonald’s You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song, which… it’s so not my area, it’s a little hard to evaluate it, to be honest. He’s very pro-streaming and pretty pro-Spotify, but at the same time, shares some of my values about listening diversely and artists getting paid.

What will you read next?

Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist should be an excellent counterpoint to You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song, so I might go with that. I’m also eyeing up some E.C.R. Lorac books which turn out to be available on Kobo Plus. In terms of the #BookSpin challenge on Litsy, I should read Robert Jackson Bennett’s A Drop of Corruption and Hetta Howe’s Poet Mystic Widow Wife, to get my #BookSpin and work toward a bingo.

But, as ever, who knows?!

What about you?