I'm 75% of the way through George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo and it's excellent; quite unlike anything I've read before. I always get this feeling that he's overrated, and then I read something by it and am completely wowed yet again.

Recently I've read The Notebook, The Lie, The Third Proof by Agota Kristof, which I loved, The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu, a collection that on the whole I found weak and trite, and The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, which was so wonderful and unsettling. On that note, does anyone want to talk about A Head…

I'm the opposite of you! I'm currently reading Frog (not far enough into it to have an opinion, and will be moving on to A God in Ruins.

12 is my favourite.

Thanks! I'll check it out.

And how much better the book was!

I have! I would love for her to release a new book.

That's fair.

I like Bujold quite a bit! It's not often a series of so many books can hold my interest.

I think that's it! I found Good Omens to be grating in parts as well.

Yes to both points!

Ah, that's right! But I am not a fan of her works as Kate Griffin–far too lush, to the point of incomprehensibility.

Is Touch worth it? I'm kind of stuck in the beginning of it. I quite liked The First Fifteen Lives, but not enough to slog through her second book with a lukewarm recommendation.

I've only read 2 of them. Mort, and now Sourcery, in remembrance. Overall, much as I want to like Pratchett, and feel like the books should be right up my alley, I just don't get engaged by them. Same with my attempts to read Douglas Adams.

But so worth it! That series was one that I didn't get into when I was a "young adult", but loved deeply an "actual adult".

It's amazing. I wish I had the ability to express how much I was moved by it, and by his other stories. Everyone needs to be aware of him.

I loved Jonathan Strange. But it's a very hefty reread.

I was disappointed by the ending, though I can't articulate why. I think I just expected something…more. But it was very well written overall.

Also, is anyone else excited about Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" being adapted to a movie?

I haven't picked up any new books recently, but have finished Wolf in White Van, and All the Birds, Singing, both of which I liked, but did not love.