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Jane Brox.
I want to say that Clearing Land makes me long for our agricultural past. But the farming past she describes so personally was never mine, nor my family’s–unless, perhaps, it was that of my Grandpa Sutton or of other, unknown, ancestors.
No, what it truly makes me long for, with its highly personal tone, is [...]

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Jasper Fforde. Looks to me like this is the end of this series. Thursday Next is such an appealing character, one hates to see her stories end, yet descending into utter crap would be worse. At Powell’s.

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Rosemary Kirstein. It’s all becoming clearer now. The wizards call themselves “the Krue” and the language of power is mathematics (which the Steerswomen also know). This is certainly not the end of the story arc, but a lot is shown (if not explained). Here it is at Powell’s.

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The Revealer posts a press release they received for a National Witches Day of Prayer. Personally, I find the appropriation of the evangelical-dominated National Day of Prayer inspired magic-making (although the chant does have some lame poetry in it).

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Brendan Halpin. A quirky, engaging little book about a sperm donor who becomes a father to a fourteen-year-old whose mothers died when a truck of turduckens overturned on their car. See it here.

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Rosemary Kirtstein. Curiouser and curiouser. I like the characters even more, and I still want to know what’s really going on. I hope there aren’t more than one or two more books before we get to the end.

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