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I've just finished The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie, the fifth Poirot novel, and the first one without a narrator. I remembered this one from the TV adaptation, sadly, but luckily did not correctly remember who did it.
Before that, I read Heritage of Flight by Susan Shwartz, an SF novel about some refugees from an interstellar war trying to start a small colony on an uninhibited world. This was a random pick for my Women of Genre Fiction challenge, and although it sounded interesting it didn't really wow me.
It was an SF Gateway book, and and was a much better transcription than I expect/fear. There were barely any OCR errors, but it did seem to me that it might have been missing section breaks. There were scene changes and time cuts that were just not signalled in the text at all. It could be that the paper version was the same, but it felt a bit odd to me, and caused a few double-takes.
I have also been reading the short works up for the Hugo awards. I caved in and decided to vote again this year, but it was a late call - we're only ten days from the deadline - so I'm not going to attempt the novels. Maybe I'll read the start of each one.
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