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I finished Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey a couple of days ago. It's a 900 page fantasy novel, and I read it in 11 days, which is well above my normal reading rate, and that should tell you how much I liked it. As I mentioned before, it's a tricky one to recommend because of its dark sexual content, but ultimately it's still a quality piece of epic fantasy with a very unusual protagonist. I'll definitely be reading more in the series. This book is technically part of a trilogy, but stands alone as a complete story, with just the barest tease of the next volume right at the end.
I also managed to finished Replay: The History of Video Games by Tristan Donovan yesterday. I had left it untouched for at least a year, maybe even two, and then it turned out I was only about ten pages from the start of the appendices and indexes. It's a good read, if you're at all interested in video gaming, but I found the early stuff a lot more interesting than the later stuff, which is kind of why I let it lapse.
Having enjoyed the Jacqueline Carey, I decided I was willing to attempt something I was less keen on, and have started Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov, his belated sequel to the Foundation Trilogy, which I read last year. I'm expecting it to be a bit boring, but it won a Hugo, so I have to trudge my way through it just to cross it off the list. I'm really hoping to have my expectations confounded.
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