[books 2009] more various

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61. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

This month's Bibliogoths selection. Last read in the early 90s.

I can't believe that I missed that it's structured very like a Shakespeare play. And that I'd forgotten that it's actually very funny.

For a book that had several of us laughing our asses off throughout, it generated a lot of discussion.

62. Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur

I've been full of lurgy again this week, including lots of feeling too lousy to sit up to watch TV. So I found the trashiest book sitting around the house. It's an "adventure" story about a woman who is half-vampire and half-werewolf in near-future Melbourne. It's really about werewolves needing to have sex all the time. And being able to beat everyone and everything else up.

It's silly and smutty as all hell, but the prose hangs together a lot better than it has any right to. Just the thing for when I was feeling rotten. I wouldn't necessarily go seek out the rest of the series, but I wouldn't rule it out either.

63. Michael Misunderstood by Karin Slaughter

A "darkly comic novella" more or less taking the piss out of the crime novels that Slaughter makes a living writing. No brilliant insights here, but a few giggles.

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