and talking of real books

Two I recently bought. Mr Penumbra's 24 hour book store by Robin Sloan. I read a chapter and bought the book on the strength of that. It's the story of a down-sized web designer who ends up working the graveyard shift at the aforementioned bay area bookstore. It soon becomes clear that this is a bookstore with a difference, brilliant!

A Question of Identity by Susan Hill, the latest Simon Serrailler mystery, this was a no-brainer because I love this series and Hill's plotting and characters are outstanding. The rest of the books I'm reading aren't out until next year Ghostman and Dark Tide are the standouts so far. I'm halfway through Deborah Crombie's Sound of Breaking Glass.

I have been working on T'ball a lot too, I basically had to throw out a lot of the story because it was no longer relevant after the cuts we made to Rollover but things are coming together now. I should have a draft ready soon after Christmas.