So I just finished The Book Thief on Melanie’s suggestion. I gotta admit the start was strong but didn’t really grab me too hard until about 150 pages in. Then it all hit at once. Fantastic read, with one or two odd formatting choices that sometimes didn’t work for me. But only sometimes.

All in all well worth a reading.

Now, mind you, I’m reading The Right Stuff, because sometimes you have to.

After that I have a host of books to read: The Rifters trilogy waits for me (never did read all of it), yes Crooked Little Vein still waits for me, too. There is a reason. Yes I know I’ll enjoy it. What I’m working on right now, reading it would mess me up. I have to get past a few more stories until I’m in the clear. That sort of thing does matter, and I can’t hear that voice right now. I can’t. So it sits and waits. Sorry.

But then the exciting news: I found on Amazon’s used book section, a book. Oh yes. I found John Brunner: Three Complete Novels (Children of Thunder, The Tides of Time and The Crucible of Time). Brunner I haven’t read.

Oh course I also have a bunch of other books. But there ya go. Brunner-envy. Feel the burn.