Fantasy

I've never read anything by Steve Martini, that I recall, but I'm listening to Critical Mass in the car this week, and it's wonderful! I've read most of John Grisham's stuff, and Peri O'Shaughnessy -- those are the only legal thrillers I can think of offhand, although there are probably others that I've read over the years.

Actually, the reason I picked it up at the library was that it was read by Frank Muller, who could make anything sound exciting.

I will definitely be looking for more of Martini's stuff to read. It's always exciting to discover a new author, and a new series of books to read, although my "to be read" pile grows higher and higher . . .

I've been busy both at home and at work, so I haven't been reading as much as I usually do. An interesting symptom of that, though, is that while it takes me a lot longer to finish a book, I get to "live" in them longer, and they resonate with me more, stick with me a little better.

At the end of June I finished Dead Witch Walking, which I picked up on a whim at the bookstore a couple of months ago. It's a sort of alternate-universe fantasy in which witches, vampires, etc., live among the regular citizens, and pixies and fairies are taken as a matter of course. But the fairies are hit men, and there are demons in the library . . .

Right now I'm reading The Third Magic, by Molly Cochran. A present-day retelling of the King Arthur legend, sort of. I'm not very far into it, but I'm enjoying it so far. It's the third book in a series that began with The Forever King. Arthur is 18 and is about to meet his Guinevere.