Marion: I finished Garth Nix’s latest, The Sinister Booksellers of Bath; it was fun spending time with the characters we met in the Left-Handed Booksellers of London. I just started Alaya Dawn Johnson’s lyrical, complex new book The Library of Broken Worlds. I’m loving every description, every secret, every mystery.
Bill: Since our last status I’ve read
- Blade of Dream by Daniel Abraham: book two in another excellent series by him
- Nightborn: Coldfire Rising by C.S.
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