Else what's a heaven for?

I didn't realize Skin Game (aka the new Jim Butcher) was out, so I was surprised when it arrived at the library. I read the first few chapters, got intimidated by its size -- and read the last chapter or two. And decided I didn't need to read the intervening 400 pages. It's not much of a spoiler to say Harry has problems that look pretty awful, adversaries who want to kill him, and yet he somehow finds the compromises necessary to save his skin, although his friends are endangered. I had it on my bedside for 3 weeks and happily returned it without reading any more. We've seen this story before, it's just powers&monster inflation.

Meanwhile, I picked up the audio version of Storm Front, read by Spike from Buffy, for cheap on Audible. I'd been so sad that I couldn't get them for the longest time -- and then it turns out there's nothing particularly interesting about James Marsters' performance. It's a good reason, but it's no different to me than reading the book on paper, which I already did.

It took me forever to hunt down Ghoul Goblin, one of the original Harry Dresden graphic novels and it was totally worth it. Harry goes out of town to help a cursed family in a story that I found hard to guess.

I wish I could get into the Codex Alera books or had faith in the new Cinder Spires series.

To be continued...