I did no writing except for legal writing this week, but I did make a discovery: my life just doesn't work as well when I'm not writing more regularly. I even find it easier to do legal work if I start my morning with more creative writing. I'm newly resolved. (Yes, I know I've said that about a million times. Let's see if I follow through this time.)

As for reading, I stayed up late reading Killing Rites: Book Four of the Black Sun's Daughter by M.L.N. Hanover. Great stuff, so preorder it now -- it'll be out in November. I've said this about every book in the series, but it's true: each is better than the one before.

I've also started reading Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. It is surprisingly compelling; I had trouble putting it down to head for bed at midnight last night. Usually mainstream fiction doesn't affect me that way. Of course, a nun's disastrous pregnancy has a way of catching one's interest.

More new books entered the house yesterday (I think we had new books come in every day last week, which may be a new record; I am such a lucky woman!). Of them, the one that I most want to read next is Michael Marshall's Killer Move. Marshall is underappreciated, I think; I find his books exciting and just enough off center to engage me completely.

What have you been reading?