I finished an anthology by John A A Logan called
Storm Damage. I really like this writer. I've read that this anthology is a series of fables and I guess they might be, although I suspect I didn't quite cotton on to some of them. But I did really enjoy the writing style and I think the author has created several little works of art here. There were one or two which didn't grab me, but the others left me with a similar emptiness that I felt when reading his novel
The Survival of Thomas Ford. He does good empty.
I also read
A Murder of Crows, a short story/novella by Edward Medina. It's the start of some kind of strange steampunk-esque series about the swashbuckling animals on the pirate ship
Revenge. Really, it was a prologue to what I guess is going to be the main story. It told the legend behind the building of the
Revenge and its captain, a crow who had suffered at the hands of an evil crocodile. OK - I mentioned that it was a bit strange didn't I? I don't know if I'll actually read the next part, but it was an interesting tale.
I've still got Lolita on the back-burner. Finding it hard to keep the momentum going on that book.
Meanwhile, I've started
Mine by Robert McCammon. One of my favourite horror authors, I try to read one of McCammon's books a year under the theory that if I progress slowly I'll never run out of new McCammon books to read.
