The End Is Here

As you already know, if you are a Lemony Snicket fan. It's really only near for me, and not completely here, since I'm not at the top of the holds list, but what better day than Friday the 13th to release the grand finale in The Series of Unfortunate Events? I will be waiting anxiously for my turn to read it.

Other than that, my reading has nearly ground to a halt. My fall funk has effected that in addition to exercise, and if it wasn't for books on CD during my commute I don't know that I'd be reading anything at all. I'm still creeping through Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and posting thoughts at our discussion site. Even though I only recently reviewed Jeanne DuPrau's The People of Sparks, I actually listened to it a couple of books ago; the Unshelved review just sparked me to action. But the one I just finished was Libba Bray's Rebel Angels. This is the second in what is so far an excellent fantasy series set in a girls' boarding school in Victorian England. I'm not inspired to write a review right now, but do recommend it along with the first one, A Great and Terrible Beauty. If you don't trust me, Mel Gibson has already purchased the movie rights. And this morning I finally started listening to the third Bartimaeus book, Ptolemy's Gate. I've been ready for this one for a while, but have had to be patient while I worked my way up the holds list. We'll see if the ending blows me away as much as it did Hadrian.