I am reading Infinite Jest. 4% in (which is a good solid novella worth of words) I feel like I am reading something written by somebody with much more literary intelligence than me, but not in the smug and infuriating way that made me stop reading at least one Zadie Smith and one Jonathan Franzen book. I feel like I will (slowly) finish this one. Score one for modern literature!

It is very confusing in some ways, and jumps around in space and time a good bit, but with just enough hints that I don't feel exactly lost. There are a lot of descriptions of drugs. And the words are just very pretty.

I am reading Indexing still and while I like it, i am not sure what to think of Amazon's serial format. This is the 2nd book I have read this way and I am "eh" on it as structure.

The stories are pretty interesting to me though. I am in Episode 4.

I've been enjoying the episodes of Indexing, too. I definitely want the rest of the story. I do wonder ell the authors get paid like this in comparison to more usual ways of publishing. And I sort of like the connection to serialized stories from early last century.

Indexing is great. It does get more serialized later and shit is currently quite real.

The thing I don't like is the beginning of each episode is repetitious. Character details that have been thoroughly explained in previous episodes. In a novel they would be stripped out altogether. I guess if this were tv though, this would be necessary.

Wolf Hall, The Light Between Oceans, The Forgotten Garden, The Little Friend, Dark Places, A Discovery of Witches,

Amy, I am with lisah on Wolf Hall. DAMN that book is amazing. Even when you know exactly, historically, how everything turns out, it's page turning. Hilary Mantel kicks ass.

I did not like The Light Between Oceans. Read half and then abandoned.

I totally enjoyed Discovery of Witches. It's pretty fluffy and easy to get through. nothing deep.

Actually, The Little Friend sort of hooked me last night. I also reread the first few pages of The Book Thief, so I need to decide.

The Light Between Oceans does seem sort of slow-going. Which was the problem I had with The Snow Child (still unfinished) -- it was simply taking forever to get anywhere.

I'm just waiting for the next Skulduggery Pleasant book (Last Stand of Dead Men) to show up on my doorstep. I should have it Wednesday.

Mine came today. Yay! If only I could say "screw work" and curl up reading for the next few days.

I like the kindle serials a lot! I always liked serials in magazines and, you know, episodic TV is pretty much my thing, so no surprise that the format works for me.

Indexing is a wee bit repetitive, but I figure that's mostly a matter of Seanan figuring out the form. I haven't found it too obstrusive reading the episodes as they are released. My only complaint is that Goosebury Bluff ended and I didn't really realize it. I spent a good month wondering why I wasn't getting notices for new episodes before looking it up on Amazon to find out it's now available as a complete book. It's not even a bad ending, climactic stuff happened and all, it just could easily continue and I assumed it would (I am still assuming there will be sequels or whatever because I have many unanswered questions...)

I'm just waiting for the next Skulduggery Pleasant book (Last Stand of Dead Men) to show up on my doorstep. I should have it Wednesday.

Mine came today. Yay! If only I could say "screw work" and curl up reading for the next few days.

So jealous! Although my editing test for the AMA is due tomorrow, so I couldn't read LSoDM tonight even if I had it. But it had better arrive tomorrow, because it's my reward for those 2 tough editing tests.

Tep, did you get The Maleficent Seven (Tanith Low!) also? I'm a bit torn as to which to read first...