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Reading Wednesday is posting a lightly-annotated list, because it's better than not posting at all. Books finished since I last posted one of these:
Strange Attractors, by Jeffrey Carver. Sequel to Neptune Crossing; Bannie finds himself in a strange, huge construction; finds friends as well as danger, and some fractal beings wanting his help. Whoever brought them there has a mission for him, and maybe for them. Fast-moving, fun. His internal alien "Charlie" is reborn, again, and very confused; Bannie and his robots have both been modified/improved to fit the environment, the robots acquiring rather more initiative than they were built with.
Chicago Days, Hoboken Nights, by Daniel Pinkwater. Episodic sort-of memoir that grew out of a series of radio pieces; fun, and more linear than that makes it sound. (It's partly a matter of plausibility/realism: these pieces are much less surrealist, because reality has different constraints than fiction.
Axeman's Jazz, by Julie Smith. The second of her novels about Skip Langdon, a New Orleans cop, which I have been reading semi-randomly; in this one she has just been made a homicide cop, and is trying to find a serial killer who has been sending threatening letters to the press; she/the team figure out that the victims, and presumably the killer, have some connection to twelve-step programs, but this is a context where people go to those meetings as a way to find dates.
Shadow Tag, by Marjorie Doering. And another mystery, which I read on the plane home, enjoyed, and can recall absolutely nothing of at the moment (two days later).
The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett. The death of Granny Weatherwax, lots more Tiffany Aching, another war with the elves. An afterword notes that Pratchett died before he could polish this, and it shows. I'm glad I read it, but would recommend it only for Pratchett/Discworld fans.
Strange Attractors, by Jeffrey Carver. Sequel to Neptune Crossing; Bannie finds himself in a strange, huge construction; finds friends as well as danger, and some fractal beings wanting his help. Whoever brought them there has a mission for him, and maybe for them. Fast-moving, fun. His internal alien "Charlie" is reborn, again, and very confused; Bannie and his robots have both been modified/improved to fit the environment, the robots acquiring rather more initiative than they were built with.
Chicago Days, Hoboken Nights, by Daniel Pinkwater. Episodic sort-of memoir that grew out of a series of radio pieces; fun, and more linear than that makes it sound. (It's partly a matter of plausibility/realism: these pieces are much less surrealist, because reality has different constraints than fiction.
Axeman's Jazz, by Julie Smith. The second of her novels about Skip Langdon, a New Orleans cop, which I have been reading semi-randomly; in this one she has just been made a homicide cop, and is trying to find a serial killer who has been sending threatening letters to the press; she/the team figure out that the victims, and presumably the killer, have some connection to twelve-step programs, but this is a context where people go to those meetings as a way to find dates.
Shadow Tag, by Marjorie Doering. And another mystery, which I read on the plane home, enjoyed, and can recall absolutely nothing of at the moment (two days later).
The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett. The death of Granny Weatherwax, lots more Tiffany Aching, another war with the elves. An afterword notes that Pratchett died before he could polish this, and it shows. I'm glad I read it, but would recommend it only for Pratchett/Discworld fans.