Is Urban Fantasy the genre that usually has a cover with the female protagonist showing her back and usually sporting a tattoo and wearing leather or something badass-ish and holding a weapon?

According to io9, that phase is over. We've now moved on to the "tattooed man nipple"! Wheeeee!

Is anyone here excited for DFW’s Pale King?

I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it looms in my future.

Hah! thanks for the man-nipple link, Rayne! Fascinating.

So I got Infinite Jest to read along with Mark and now I'm already caught up and have barely started the book. Do I wait for Mark to post again or go ahead without him? I also got Julie & Julia for next month's book club and have not yet cracked it.

If it helps at all, I really enjoyed Julie & Julia - more than I expected to. It unexpectedly really spoke to some angst I was feeling in my own life (tho' almost 10 years older and not yet married, so shut up, Julie! t /ignore me, still dealing with my own issues ). So I'd probably fill the time with J&J while waiting for Mark to catch up, if it were me.

I read on in Infinite Jest, got to the first big gush of endnotes and said, "oookay, this is a good stopping point."

Waitaminute, the end notes have end notes? I don't think I can do this book before coffee.

If I recall correctly, the endnotes of the endnotes have endnotes.

gnargh

Plus if you hold your copy up to a mirror you can read an entirely different novel!