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Just finished:
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
I enjoyed this book, it's a lighthearted murder and mayhem-y urban fantasy noir detective romp. Lots of fun with both genres and entertaining enough that I'll try to read the next ones.
Sadly, the second book is only available in some electronic formats (lit is one, though), but the third book is not apparently available at all - although the rest of the series is! I've emailed Penguin about it.
In the middle of:
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Halfway through this and it is amazing and up there as one of the best books I've read this year - and definitely one of the best books to have gotten published this year. A woman in a mental hospital is approaching her 100th birthday and recounting her story - but the version of events she's writing down in secret doesn't always match up with the story that the hospital's psychiatrist is slowly piecing together from old and mouse-eaten records. Which doesn't do justice to how beautifully this is written and what a rich story is being told.
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