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Intermittent reviews & commentary. Preferred genres: YA; contemporary lit; sci-fi/fantasy; comic books

Currently reading

One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies
Dave Eggers, Deb Olin Unferth
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
The Best American Short Stories 2009
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
Inkspell
Cornelia Funke, Anthea Bell
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
David Sedaris
The Quick-Change Artist
Cary Holladay

The Best of the Realms (Forgotten Realms Anthology)

The Best of the Realms: The Stories of R.A. Salvatore - Elaine Cunningham, Jean Rabe, R.A. Salvatore, Christie Golden, Troy Denning, Jess Lebow, Jeff Grubb, J. Robert King, Kate Novak, Monte Cook, Ed Greenwood, Douglas Niles, William W. Connors, Keith Francis Strohm I sortakinda read this and sortakinda liked it. Only a few stories grabbed my attention--the first one, by Elaine Cunningham, and the story about the elven vampire, by Christie Golden. Everything else I skimmed & it was a bit meh, including the new Salvatore story touted on the cover (Jarlaxle & Entreri waste time with low-rent thieves; Entreri angsts and Jarlaxle is cocky. Yawns.)