I am also a huge fan of hers. I picked it up yesterday and have only gotten about 50 pages in so far but I am just sitting here at work eagerly waiting to start in again.

This is a civil suit, not a criminal trial. No presumption of innocence.

Just had a phone interview for a job in Chicago. I thought it went pretty well but I am historically not great in interviews especially on the phone, so I'm not counting any chickens, but I have at least been getting offered interviews lately which is an improvement over last year. I had had another interview in…

I just started a job search for the fourth year in a row - I have taken temporary positions for the past three since I graduated. It is not exciting.

Yeah, I agree with you almost entirely. There's a reason, I think, the first episode opened with his arrest for the murder of Morris Black (and that he was discovered so easily). He was obviously a killer from the very beginning.

I read The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker at the end of last month. It's the sequel to The Color Purple, one of my all-time faves, and while I didn't think it was quite as good as that I still got a lot out of it. I particularly liked how it made use of oral tradition in a contemporary context.

Do it, absolutely. I like Bring Up the Bodies better, and in fact read that first, so you could do that too.

Still not or possibly even less appealing. This is a bit of a non-sequitur but my first thought is always of the episode of Sex and the City where Miranda dates Will Arnett and they fuck in a bunch of public places and when she wants to do it in a bed he takes her back to his place to have sex while his mom is in the…

I prefer to keep my liaisons indoors. Call me old-fashioned! I had enough sex in cars as an adolescent to put me off it forever.

At the beginning, Assassin's Apprentice, ha. She's written several trilogies but I believe someone here said they're all about the same character, and move chronologically. (She has one unrelated series, I think.)

I'm on Royal Assassin, I finished Assassin's apprentice right before I left town for the holidays and picked this one up when I got home. They're all great, but a little daunting, since there's so many trilogies! I think I will finish Quest this month and come back to the next later on in the year.

My reading pretty much grinded to a halt over the holidays but January is usually my heaviest reading month so I hope I'll make up for it. I'm planning on getting a few books from The Morning News' 2015 Tournament of Books; it's a favorite of a friend of mine, someone whose opinion on writing I really respect, so on…

I'm actually halfway through Assassin's Apprentice and enjoying it very much. Can't wait to read more.

We talked about this briefly on the best book you read this year thread, but definitely Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold. Currently 13 books I believe, which should be read by internal chronology — start with Shards of Honor (or the omnibus Cordelia's Honor). Strong female and queer characters abound, more of…

I picked up Seven Killings after reading about it in a local paper, since I live in Minneapolis where James is a professor (well, in St. Paul, but same dif).

I felt that the book ended on the right note. Having read it, it sort of reorganized the themes of the series for me: the first was about coming to terms with the future, the second to terms with the present, and the last the past. It doesn't "undo" the themes of the earlier books, but they are able to move on, which…

I also discovered the series recently and finished it this year, and A Civil Campaign is my favorite too. I think that book in particular is a credit to the series' quality, because really it's just the characters hanging out and doing some light scheming, but it's so enjoyable to just spend time with them.

I keep seeing people repeating this, so I would like to say that Crouching Tiger is in fact based on a book, the fourth in a series of five. The sequel already exists.

That sounds good! I think I will try that. Sounds much easier than trying to bake another dish of enchiladas.

I just finished Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi, which I really enjoyed. It pretty much ticked off all my boxes (family saga, immigrant story, some light magical realism) so I wouldn't be surprised if others find it a little overdone instead. However, the writing was superbly engaging — can't wait to see what she does…