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I've finished a couple more books recently:
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is an early dystopia, first published in English in 1924, influencing Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. It's about conformity and its effect on the creative spirit. It's an interesting read, but I found it quite hard going. There are a lot of incomplete sentences in the speech, leaving you to infer the meaning, and the book often refers to people using some metaphor based on their physical appearance. You can just about keep track, and it's a fairly short book, but I think it's mainly only of academic interest now.
Slow River by Nicola Griffith. I really liked this. It's quite grim and desperate at times, but I always wanted the heroine to come through it and I always wanted to know what was going to happen next. It's an SF novel, about a young rich girl who is kidnapped and left for dead in a strange city, and how she tries to build a new life for herself.
I'm now reading A Perfect Evil by Alex Kava for my alphabetic detective challenge, and so far it's readable enough but nothing special. I'm reading my second-hand paperbacks in reverse order of condition, and this one's a bit tattered. I kind of just want to push through it and get onto something else.
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