So I recently read the book Point B , A love story about teleportation, and I recommend it. I read it because the author, Drew Magary, writes funny rants for Medium and used to work for Deadspin which I loved before the editor was fired and all the staff quit.

It is self-published so it suffers from the occasional need-of-an-editor such usually do, but I still stayed up past midnight twice reading it, so I guess it didn't matter! Set in a future where teleportation is done through your phone and controlled by a company with no morals, it has a lot of good, pleasingly leftist social and economic commentary, plus a pretty cute teen girl love story.

Ooh, I will take that rec, sounds good.

I just smashed through the Penric and Desdemona story. Loved it, and now need to go back and re read the others.

Read the new Penric last night — definitely would have felt on the nose if I wasn't sure she wrote it before all this started! Enjoyed it as always. Thanks for the rec of the Alexis Hall book -- just bought it for my Kindle.

Thanks for the rec of the Alexis Hall book -- just bought it for my Kindle.

I just put it on my Nook too! I'm a few books into Jodi Taylor's Chronicles of St. Mary's, but I might pause and devour The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, the go back to St. Mary's.

I have fallen down an Alexis Hall rabbit hole and it is ALL YOUR FAULT

I finally managed to get the Penric novella and started it. It's a bit, um, on-topic for these times.

Have you read Seanan McGuire's "Kingdom of Needle and Bone" (possibly written as Mira Grant)? it's on-topic and seriously scary.

I'm thrilled you're all enjoying Alexis Hall! I've been reading Hall's books for the better part of a decade, and it's been fantastic watching her rise to success over that time -- she's so much more widely known and read now!

I am very fond of Hall's "Kate Kane" novels, and the third book was released this month after a multiyear delay. They're mysteryish novels in a fantasy setting, with vampires & werewolves etc. The main pairing is pretty established, between Kate and her female partner. It's all the great aspects of Hall's writing in a modern fantasy setting.

I have fallen down an Alexis Hall rabbit hole and it is ALL YOUR FAULT

Mwhahahahahaha!

I'm thrilled you're all enjoying Alexis Hall! I've been reading Hall's books for the better part of a decade, and it's been fantastic watching her rise to success over that time -- she's so much more widely known and read now!

Seriously! Glitterland is so amazing in its description of bi-polar illness that I cry and laugh at the same time.

And Arden St. Ives gives me life.

Well, if anyone's interested, Cold Comfort Farm is on sale on Amazon. Not sure about anywhere else. It's a hoot - written in 1932 (? 1933?) in reaction to a bunch of novels about rural life, it's a parody of the whole genre. And I believe it kind of killed it off. There's also a delightful movie which stars Ian McKellan as Amos Starkadder.

I remember loving the movie when it came out, have not read it. Thanks!

And thanks for the Kate Kane rec, esse. When I looked for more Hall to read I got overwhelmed by all the titles and picking titles at random was not working for me, but a mystery series I am pretty sure will do the job