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WELL, I'm trying to stay off my foot after injuring it the other day*, and my brain is too fried from work to write, so instead of exercising or writing, I've been reading. ;V

Just finished: Rainfish by Andrew Paterson. A boy living in Queensland commits a crime, is wracked by guilt, and starts to feel as if the entire world knows what he did and wants him to atone for it. The summary on the back of the book had me thinking it might be fantasy, but no, the rainfish and other mysterious creatures are metaphorical and/or the product of an overactive imagination.

Anyway, it wasn't bad! A nice, quick read, with a great sense of place. Take a look at this one if you want something that's Good With Setting. My library has this in the YA section, but going by the age of the protagonist and the way the various issues are handled, I'd say it was written more with kids under 12 in mind.

Currently reading: The Waking Comes Late by Steven Heighton. This one is a volume of poetry. The back summary describes it as "a collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us". Well, I don't know about that, but I did like the first two poems that I read; they had some neat imagery. So there's that.

Reading next: The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly. Crime/thriller; I've enjoyed this author's work enough in the past to remember their name. My mom picked this up to read during our six-hour layover in Halifax, but didn't get very far with it, so she passed it on to me. It's been a while since I read anything in the Harry Bosch series, so I'm looking forward to it. Come to think of it, wasn't there a TV series based on those? I'll have to take a look and see if it's any good.