Last night, I stayed up until two in the morning to finish The Scar by China Mieville. This is truly a phenomenal book, and Mieville's prose has never been better. It's set in the same imaginary-world setting as his previous novel, Perdido Street Station, in the world of Bas-Lag, but where Perdido is confined to the monstrous post-industrial city of New Crobuzon, The Scar takes us out into the Swollen Ocean, to a massive ship-city called Armada. I'll be writing a review for Green Man Review, my first one actually, and I'll post the link here as soon as it's online.

Tonight I start Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede, my first teacher at Clarion. It's one of the books in the Fairy Tale series of novels edited by Terri Windling, and at under three hundred pages, will be a nice break from the big fat novels I've been reading lately.