I stayed up too late tonight finishing Frost Burned, the latest Mercy Thompson novel. I should have finished it ages ago, but the story stopped really holding my interest shortly after Adam and the rest of the werewolves escaped from their captors. Still it was enjoyable, and I will be impatiently waiting for the next one. I was half expecting Mercy to say she was pregnant at the end of the novel considering the way it started. I'm still not convinced she isn't. The end sort of left it open to interpretation.

Has anyone here read Lady of Ashes by Christine Trent? One of the GCS readers wrote in to recommend it to me. It sounds interesting (oooh, Victorian undertakers and mourning rituals!), but I also know that I prefer books with some sort of paranormal/magical realism/urban fantasy flavor to them.

I'm reading a great mystery(I guess) although it's more litfic than a lot of them I've seen lately, called "Reconstructing Amelia". A lawyer thinks her daughter has committed suicide, but she finds out she didn't(and a lot of other things) by going through her posts and texts.

Jilli, if you haven't read it already, I do think you would like "A Natural History of Dragons" by Marie Brennan.

So I took home my lovely copy of Good Omens and explained the World Book Night thing to Hubby. He was excited about the idea and asked me to sign him up for it. He wants to hand out books at hospitals and long term care centers and such. As someone who's spent a lot of time in hospital beds, he knows books would be welcomed. Is that in the spirit of World Book Night?

When you apply to be a Giver, you have to say where you plan on giving the books out, so if they accept his application, then yes!

If it isn't, it should have it's own day.

I've never heard of World Book Night - what a cool idea.

Flavorwire has posted a gallery of 20 amazing outdoor libraries and bookshops.

The new Kiki Strike book (The Darkness Dwellers) is a lot of fun. I read it in one sitting.

Unrelatedly, I've not read any of the Dresden Files books, but I just read something that said James Marsters narrates the audiobooks. t edit Well, I shouldn't make assumptions. It was a review of the audiobook of the second Dresden Files book, so I know he narrates at least that one.

We were at a party last weekend where half the people there had read or were reading the Dresden Files books, and just raved about them.

I've enjoyed the Dresden books. They're all in 1st person and have some of the inevitable "dude, I'm tired of hearing about your crises" that comes when everything happens in the main character's head, but the author's good at keeping ongoing elements relevant and hasn't dropped any balls yet that I can see. And I think he actually has an end game to finish the series with, so it's not just "good lord, what are you doing to these poor people now?"