Damn, I really gotta read those Hunger Games books...
So, been listening to a lot, reading a bit. Finished:
Holly Black's Black Heart (Curse Workers Book 3 - solid end to a very fun trilogy)
Adam Christopher's Empire State which had a lot of cool ideas in it, but ultimately I found a bit frustrating. The characters couldn't really rise above their archetypes, and if Something Really Cool happened, the characters had to tell each other about it over and over again as if to remind me, and I wanted to yell I GOT IT ALREADY.
Lavie Tidhar's Osama. That one is going to linger with me a lot more, and I suspect I'll go back and reread it at some point (though I probably won't re-listen). Another weird alternate history story starring a detective, who also doesn't exactly rise above his archetype, but this one worked so much better for me. It requires some critical thinking/reading, and poses a lot of questions about escapism via violent entertainment as well as coping with violence through escapism. Started a bit slow for me, but by the end, I was a big fan. Also, there was one scene that I thought was going to connect to Tidhar's "Set This Down" (at PP). Actually, I'm fairly certain that world co-exists with Osama's. Also, Humphrey Bogart is in it.
Just about finished reading N.K. Jemisin's The Killing Moon (excellent).
Started listening to Garth Nix's newest - A Confusion of Princes (rollicking space opera).
Oh, I also listened to Moby Dick - something I'd never read before. Kind of shocked by how awesome that book was. (I suspect this was a case of the audio being particularly great - not sure I would've enjoyed reading it as much as I did listening.)
