I have been having problems with reading new books, so I've gone on a massive re-read of the "In Death" series (out of order, picking them at whim). I suddenly realized something - when Eve wakes up in the morning, Roarke is watching the financial news with the cat on his lap. Sometimes she comes in and he's stretched out on the sofa with the cat on his lap. The REAL mystery - why doesn't he ever seem to have cat hair on his clothes?

The REAL mystery - why doesn't he ever seem to have cat hair on his clothes?

That's his SF/mystery/romance hero superpower.

The REAL mystery - why doesn't he ever seem to have cat hair on his clothes?

Especially since he's ALWAYS wearing black silk, and the cat is grey!

out of order, picking them at whim

This is funny to me because I've always read them out of order, as I found them at used book stores or wherever, so I've undertaken to read/re-read them all in order.

I just finished The Grief of Stones, the third book in The Goblin Emperor universe. I really liked it. I sort of want to sit with the ending for a while before I start some other book.

Calli, I liked it, too, but the ending seemed so abrupt I honestly thought it was missing a chapter at first.

I had that feeling also, Pix, but I have decided I like the dangling unresolved threads. The conversations in this book about not trying to find out who what's-his-name in the last book was protecting fed into that. I hope we don't have to wait too long to find out what happens next, though.

I’m on the library wait list for it, but already read the sample. I love it, and also love that a new book probably means more good fic too!

I'm partway through What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher's retelling of Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher." I don't read much horror, and this book definitely qualifies. It's really good, and I'm interested in the characters and where she's taking the plot, but gah. Also, I called one of the issues early on, so the horror is compounded by me thinking, "No, no, no, do not touch . . . oh, crap. Well, you're probably screwed now, sorry dude."

Anyway, if you like or are even ok-ish with horror, I'm inclined to recommend the book. If the author doesn't stick the landing I'll probably come back and edit this, but her history on that has been pretty good.

I pre-ordered that, but I haven't started it yet because I know how much her other horror creeped me out so I'm trying to figure out a non-scary time to read it. Like, 4 am when I am theoretically trying to go back to sleep probably does not qualify. I know I've read Fall of the House of Usher, and I think I read another retelling of it within the last decade, but I don't know that I remember either one. Poe all blends together in my head. But I had no familiarity at all with the last two retellings she did and I enjoyed those, so I'm sure this will also be fine when I get up the nerve to read it.

I finished it last night, and it kept me awake a fair bit afterwards. I get insomnia at the drop of a hat, though, so YIMV.

I also reread Poe's story before I started Kingfisher's book. "Fall of the House of Usher" is shorter than I remembered—it probably didn't take me half an hour to read. And it was nice to see the relationship between the two works.