The Land of Nowhere

Sleep No More, Seanan McGuire. Book 17 in the October Daye eries -- at the end of the previous book, Stuff Happened that overwrote most of the cast's memories and reshaped the world they live in, they've been living in blissful ignorance for the last four months, and this book is about Our Protagonist & friends figuring out what's going on and how to fix it. Which is to say it's quite different from the rest of the series. This setup has some fun aspects, and lets us see some different sides of familiar characters, though Brainwashed Toby is less fun to be around in some ways. (I was hoping this would help with what I call the gentrification of this series -- it starts out with Misfit Changeling Toby navigating a mix of privilege and marginalization with a supporting cast of multiple changelings and other marginalized fae, but at this point pretty much every major character is some combination of magically powerful and well-connected politically.) The ending did seem to resolve super quickly. However Book 18 is coming out next month, and its plot apparently happens at the same times as Book 17's but with a different cast of characters, so maybe it will cast light on why the resolution of this book seemed so easy.

The Romantic Age, A. A. Milne. Play readaloud I actually knew that A. A. Milne wrote plays before he became famous for Pooh, because I picked up a biography of him on my parents' bookshelf when I was a teenager (though I'm not sure I finished it). Anyway, this is a generally fun and charming play, some of the themes reminded me of The Interior Life but with a less mature female lead and more mansplaining.

The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan. Still making my way through this slowly between other books. Apparently being ta'veren makes one good at persuasion? At some point I should get back to a viewpoint character other than Perrin, but at least he's starting to realize that Faile is actually competent and not just a damsel in need of protection.

Too Like the Lightning/Trop Semblable à l'éclair, Ada Palmer (tr. Michelle Charrier). Still reading this with a group, a few chapters a week. I like the way JEDD's dialogue reads in French!