The "You're So Vain" working title made me laugh. And the PhD for studying Munchausens. OMG.

I think that book is one my parents sent home with me at Christmas. I probably don't need to read it now. I can't believe Tracy Letts is now tied to this mess.

I can't figure out how any employer would allow him to just not be there for months without any documentation.

Yeah, publishing can be loose, but that's really loose.

The "You're So Vain" working title made me laugh.

Hee.

I didn't know there were authorized continuations of Agatha Christie! I don't know how to feel about that.

I don't really see the point of authorized continuations of Agatha Christie.

Well, beloved characters.

I read the first Poirot one, and I literally can't remember if I finished it. Do not recommend.

I didn't really like the one Sophie Hannah book I tried, Little Face.

I'm reading Kate Atkinson's fourth Jackson Brodie book now, and I heard she's finally coming out with a new one this year (or next year?). I also have to get her latest non-Brodie book, Transcription.

I didn't know there were authorized continuations of Agatha Christie!

Me neither.

I don't know how to feel about that.

Me neither.

There are authorized continuations of Dorothy Sayers's Peter Whimsey novels (whose work I like a lot more than Christie's—feel free to come at me full muffuletta about it). One of them, Thones, Dominions, was created from a novel that Sayers had started. Jill Patton Walsh finished it. While I felt like I could see the seams between the two author's work, I felt the final novel was worth reading. And I was glad to spend a little more time with Lord and Lady Peter. Walsh has since published three more novels in Sayer's Whimsey-verse. I didn't read the last two, but that's more because I was distracted by something shiny than that Walsh sucks. She's not Sayers, but she does a solid job.

I read The Goblin Emperor and Consider Phlebas on the strength of awesome Yuletide fics based on them. I loved The Goblin Emperor so, so much I promptly re-read and then re-re-read it. I've given up on Consider Phlebas about halfway through and went back to the Imperial Radch series to get my sentient-ship fix.

I just finished Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief and loved it so much! Why did I wait so long to read these books? I'm super excited to have five more books in this series to enjoy.

It was an interesting experience reading it, since I knew there was some sort of big twist at the end regarding Gen's identity, but I didn't know what it was. So I'd be reading along, knowing that I should be looking for clues, but not knowing what they would be about. I came up with a lot of possibilities! Among others, I considered that Gen might be: the son of a king or queen; the son of a god; a god himself; secretly in league with the magus; or a woman.

In the end, it turns out that the series title (The Queen's Thief) rather spoiled the first part of the reveal (though I suppose I didn't know for sure *which* queen), but I actually didn't see the second part coming: that he had stolen Hamiathes's Gift from the magus, hidden it in his hair, and was planning all along to bring it to his queen. I knew he'd gotten himself put into prison as part of a bigger scheme, but didn't really put it all together on my own. On the one hand, I feel like I should have figured it out sooner, but on the other hand, it was such an enjoyable reading experience that I really don't mind.

Looking forward to The Queen of Attolia already!