I finished D (A Tale of Two Worlds) by Michel Faber. It is this story, the letter D has virtually disappeared from the world. A girl named Dhikilo and a sphinx travel to a strange other world to figure out why the D’s are going there and how to stop the drain. This book belongs on the shelf between The Wonderful O by James Thurber and Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn, but since it’s going into the kids’ section, it will end up alphabetized between works by Elizabeth Enright and Nancy Farmer, and that’s OK, too.
I also finished Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce, a strange story about a girl who goes missing and then returns at Christmas, roughly 20 years later, looking nearly the same as she had when she left, spinning a tale about having been in a different world for six months. This book probably belongs on the shelf between to Raymond Feist’s Faerie Tale and Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell, and maybe that’s where it’ll end up. Fairies oughta be scary, and the scary fairies oughta stick together.
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler was overdue at the library, so I had to return it. I did not finish it 🙁
I’m not sure what I’m going to read next. I’m tired of romances.