Books read so far this year: Spook Country, by William Gibson Ink Exchange, by Melissa Marr Both highly recommended, tho trigger warnings of all sorts for the second. SC, like much of Gibson's work, is as much extended tone poem as novel, and like Pattern Recognition, is set in today's world and is only marginally science fictional (and even has an overlapping character and company). The beginning doesn't blow me away w/brilliance like PR (hey, i just noticed how the letters of the title relate... read more