What Books Are You Reading Right Now?

[Piggy Knowles]

Almost finished pushing my way through the Lonesome Dove series. I'm currently about halfway through Streets of Laredo. Thus far I like it better than either of the prequels, but it still doesn't hold a candle to Lonesome Dove itself.

After finishing The Corner I didn't quite have the heart to jump right into There Are No Children Here, so I moved to lighter fare - Patricia McKillip's 2012 collection of short stories, Wonders of the Invisible World. I bought it a year ago but only read two stories from it, but now that I'm diving back in, I'm really enjoying it. I don't actually read a lot of fantasy, and I've never been a huge fan of the novels I've read by Patricia McKillips, but this has been fun. I think in a lot of ways her prose style is better suited to the shorter form.

(I also must confess that it feels particularly refreshing in contrast to the Lonesome Dove series, a long-form Western that could teach George R.R. Martin a few tricks about how to screw with your emotions and be absolutely brutal to main characters, and The Corner, which makes the Wire look cheerful in retrospect.)