What are you reading now?: June 6, 2026

I'm baaa-ack!

Two bricks for the coming week: Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General (which I've barely begun) and Bernardo de Gálvez.

Welcome back! I hope you had a good trip!

I'm reading Falling from Horses by Molly Gloss. I just started it but so far I like it.

Tooth and Claw – Jo Walton
4****

What a fun romp of a story! It’s a typical regency (or Victorian) romance: the females cannot inherit and must marry well; there are rather rigid rules of etiquette and social classes should not mix; country houses and balls in town; young females are presented during the season; oldest sons inherit the title while younger sons need to go into the military or perhaps the clergy. BUT … all the characters are dragons.

I was captured from the first page and enthralled and entertained throughout. I really liked the “women” in this book. From the up-tight, class-conscious Exalt Benandi, to the clerk (former prostitute) Sebeth, to the faithful servant Amer, to Penn’s wife Felin, and the Algornin sisters: Berend, Selendra and Haner, they were all fully drawn and vivid.

Oh, how I wish this was a series, because I want to read more about the Algornin family, but apparently, it’s not.

I've finished up several re-reads, including Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner, and next on my stack are two stories set in the world of Riverside: The Fall of Kings and The Privilege of the Sword.

Hi, I wandered into this group and decided to share what I am reading now, as I am just emerging from a long reading slump.

Just finished the doorstopper King Sorrow by Joe Hill and enjoyed it heartily.

Went to the library and started on both books I checked out: Double Indemnity by James M. Cain and The God of the Woods by Liz Moore.

>5 sturlington: Welcome! All 3 of your books are on my tbr!

>6 PaperbackPirate: Thanks! I hope that when you get to King Sorrow, you like it as much as I did.

The Sociopath Next Door
Martha Stout
4/5 stars
Interesting book about sociopaths and how they use their friends and families. Non-Fiction

Starting: A Rose of Blood and Binding by Claire Legrand
The 3rd and finale novel in the "Middlemist" trilogy.

The new thread is up over here.