Erin, I think she had originally intended to do a third, Parable of the Trickster. She's mentioned it in some interviews even. Not that it makes the letdown any less jarring.

I don't remember a letdown like that. I should reread it anyway.

please do, cause I was confuzzled by it.

Thanks to IO9's pointing it out and Jessica's enthusiastic endorsement I am now reading Charles Stoss' Glasshouse.

I'm just getting started but it's (a) fascinating; (b) has a lot of resonance with Dollhouse (so far).

Thanks, Jess!

Dang, i just searched my library catalogue for _Soulless_ and there is but one title hit, which is about Anne Coulter. Ouch. Do not want.

Erin, i felt the same way about the ending of that book. She really should have written the third book.

I read Glasshouse also, thanks to io9 and the library. I was all "science fiction and genderfuck, how could I not love it?" and parts of it I did, but other parts I more just wanted to smack the characters for being dumbasses.

I just lent my copy of "Parable of the Sower" to a junior college student next door. I eagerly await his thoughts about it all, because... I really cannot remember anything about the plot. Isn't that sad? All my other OEB books, yes: little bits of memory cling to their covers and remind me what I found between them. I so look forward to talking with anyone who's read some Butler.

I thought her last book would have been better if she'd lived long enough to do one last polishing of her prose, but the publisher released what she'd written anyway.

By chance, is anyone reading Shades of Grey, the new Jasper Fforde?

Want! (but no, have not yet read it.)

I finished my Zombie Survival Guide/World War Z double-feature. Two undead thumbs up!