Update: I've read the opening stage direction and literally started crying. Very thankful my wife is asleep.

I've got 3 books to record for audible and a daughter who wants to play. But there's also this new Harry Potter thing....

Ok, so obviously doing this

"His voice is like the wind swerving through a weird day." That is one crazy-ass simile and I love it.

Wow. This is a strong pick from me. Line by line not the greatest thing I've ever read, but absolutely incredible plotting and reversals. The climax is utterly insane (in the best way), and the final chapter is so wonderful.

Holy cow! Courtroom scenes are the best.

The writing is very charming and I can see why so many love it. I was just expecting something character driven, when this was almost completely episodic with very little emotional draw to the characters. Oh well.

Holy cow this is amazing so far. Absolutely beautiful.

Oh I am excited about this one. As recommended by Jeff VanderMeer.

Ok, so on Pottermore I was sorted into Horned Serpent as my Ilvermorny house, then I realized I was logged in under my wife's account and had to do it again under mine. Then I got Thunderbird. Who am I and what is life??

Love the foreboding during the first part of this book. "...As if the presentiment of catastrophe wove itself into everything that came before." @Tarlia @Shortstack

Question: should I read spoilers for this? I won't be making it to England anytime soon to see it, and waiting until July 31 for the script to come in the mail seems brutal. If it was a new novel I definitely wouldn't, but this feels different.

I'm about 5 pages in and immediately I feel insecure about my own writing. This woman is so clearly a master.

Also, yes I am reading at red lights.

Finished up Ghost Story and moved on to this one on Audible. In fact, I'm listening to this at work and carrying around Harry Potter for moments when I'm not listening. It's a very magical English sort of day here in LA for me.

Unfortunately I ended up being disappointed in the finale of this book, but it's still an overall pick for me. I love literary horror, and this is certainly literary. It's been copied so many times since that it felt familiar, though that's no fault of the author.

Guess what just showed up in the mail.....

Thanks @Litsy !!

"What's the worst thing you've ever done?" That's a hell of an opening line.

On vacation and raiding the bookshelves here: monster fish edition.

Just starting this one. I was heavy into slow horror for a while and kind of fell out of it, but I'm feeling the call again. Been meaning to read this for years.

Need some comfort in my life so I bought the entire ebook collection on Pottermore and I'm starting again from the beginning. Three chapters in and I'd forgotten how much I love it. Plus these new covers!

No clue why I didn't read this sooner. Smart, practical, funny, detailed, immensely helpful.

I really should have cut that adverb.

Stephen King, knowing what's up.

Dumbledore's Army!

It's probably too hard to pick a favorite, but this may be it. Or Order of the Phoenix. Too hard.

I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction and poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write..., someone will try to make you feel lousy about it.

But with open mouth (the time had come) he made one last attempt at prayer, ‘O God, I offer up my damnation to you. Take it. Use it for them,‘ and was aware of the pale papery taste of an eternal sentence on the tongue.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

One of my all time favorites.

Murakami's writing does it to me every time. I was transfixed.

One of the greatest pieces of writing I've ever experienced. Sounds hyperbolic, but for me it was that good.

All style, literally no substance. It was enough fun for me to finish, though.

I know it's a great book, and as a native southerner it feels wrong to bail on it. But hey, I was bored from about page 5.