Read Anything Good Lately?

I know what you're thinking: She hasn't posted in MONTHS, and she's just going to jump right in? No explanation, no nothing? That's right. Nothing. I'm pretending I can't hear you.

Right now I'm reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. What a wonderful opening sentence: "Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again." I haven't gotten much past that point, but the book goes back to the library in 3 weeks, so I'll try to take time off from watching back episodes of Dr. Who to finish it up. Do you think that when Daphne du Maurier's parents named her they were all "when this kid grows up she is going to RULE the gothic romantic novel genre?" because I'm pretty sure that with a name like Daphne du Maurier, that's what you were intended to do.

Notice that Dr. Who reference? That's right. I'm a Sci-Fi geek. Battlestar Galactica, Dr. Who, Stargates Atlantis & Universe (never much got into the original), The Stars (both War & Trek) Buffy, Angel...really anything Joss Whedon has ever done, and OMG Neil Gaiman, who is such a rock star and who is set to write his second episode of Dr. Who. 

Speaking of NG, I spent a couple of weeks this summer re-reading all of the Sandman graphic novels. Totally brilliant. I had to hide them from El-D because he's fascinated with comics and can't understand how something can be both cartoon and inappropriate for 6 year olds at the same time. I sort of get his point.

Since we spent our vacation in Ithaca, I also re-read Fool on the Hill  by Matt Ruff while I was there, for nostalgia's sake. Fun read, nothing life changing. Definitely a bit on the immature side (written by a Cornell undergrad), and read by me originally when I was an Ithaca undergrad).

Did I mention that I read Stephen King's 11/22/63? I can't remember exactly what I have and haven't read since I last posted, but that was a good one, and despite being epic in length, was actually an entertaining, quick read. I haven't read Stephen King in YEARS (like since junior high, I think), and all of a sudden, I realized that my nerd cred was incomplete because I haven't gotten to the Dark Tower series, so I cruised through the first book in that series and plan to get to the others...eventually.

There's more, but I need to look at my Kindle to see what I've read this summer, but I've basically blown my "read a book a month" resolution out of the water, so I'm pretty happy - especially since other resolutions are not going as swimmingly.