Much Ado is my favorite. Damian Lewis! Sarah Parrish!

Much Ado was great. I especially loved Damian Lewis at the start.

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A literary detective who claims to have found evidence of a ‘lost play’ by William Shakespeare has won the backing of the acclaimed Shakespeare publishers, Arden, with the publication of his new book, Double Falsehood, or the Distressed Lovers.

I finished another audiobook on my commute. This one was 'Killing Floor' by Lee Child. It held my interest and I thought the writing was good enough, though I thought more could be chopped out. There were a couple of scenes I just couldn't buy. There were also a couple of improbable coincidences that would have been cool if they weren't really coincidences, but they were. Overall, a good enough read, but I'm not going to rush out (well get online) to the Library to get another one of his books. It did make me think I need to check if there are any Rex Stout audiobooks available I haven't already listened to.

My new audiobook from the library is 'Dragonspell' by somebody. It's classified as YA and the beginning is making me think it might be too Y for my taste. The Golden Compass was YA and I liked it a lot, but it was more on the A side.

I think the majority (though it's a simple majority) of books I've read recently are YA. I'm currently reading Carrie Ryan's newest book, called The Dead-Tossed Waves, which isn't a sequel to The Forest of Hands and Teeth, but is a companion book (set in the same world, some of the same characters, but not a true sequel). Zombies abound.

I also have Justine Larbalestier's Liar waiting to be read.

One non-YA book I recently finished was The Magicians, which was...okay. It owes a lot to Harry Potter and Narnia, in that those series and the concepts/worlds they established are so well-known that, for instance, The Magicians can just compress 6 years of a school of magic into 300 pages, and it more or less works, because thanks to Harry Potter, the reader already has the idea of what a school of magic is like.

It felt kind of rushed, but it's not bad.

I liked The Magicians quite a bit. To me it was a more realist mash-up of HP and Narnia, with a more adult, contemporary feeling to it. I love that it actually references HP directly.

Speaking of YA, I just started Hunger Games and recently read Thirteen Reasons Why (a mystery thriller about suicide if that makes any sense), which I highly recommend.

I also have The Book Thief on hold at the library.

I really liked The Book Thief. The characters had a lot of depth and you didn't want to let go of the book at the end.

I also recently finished The Thirteenth Tale which is a "a very English ghost story" and had a nice twist.

Currently wending my way through John Joseph Adams' sci-fi anthology Federations. For those who like Lois McMasters Bujold, her story "Aftermaths" (which is wonderful) is in that one. Lots of old friends in there - Anne McCaffrey, Orson Scott Card (one from Ender's universe), George R. R. Martin, Harry Turtledove...

I loved Thirteen Reasons Why even if the narrator of the story SHOULD have just put on her big girl pants and gotten over it.

I keep meaning to read Hunger Games. I suppose I should just put it on hold at the library. I just re-read the Attolia series (The Thief, The Queen of/King of), since I was informed there's a new book in the series coming out (which I HAVE put on hold...but am like, 100th in line for).

I was surprised how quickly I got The Hunger Games off of hold, which means I'm reading it at the same time as Lord of the Flies, one of my should-reads. An interesting juxtaposition to say the least.