Finished The Unhandsome Prince by John Moore. I’ve read some of Moore’s light-hearted fantasies before, so when I saw this one at the used bookstore, I snatched it up. In this book, Caroline, a very determined peasant girl, has spent weeks systematically catching frogs and kissing them in hopes of returning a handsome prince to his original form (he was enchanted by an →

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Finished Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman. This is a superhero book that came out about the same time as Karma Girl did last year. For much more on Invincible, check out Girls Read Comics. Karen Healey did an interview with Grossman last year. You can find it in the archives. This book is about Doctor Impossible, a →

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Finished Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars, edited by Rob Thomas. This is a book of academic essays that looks at various aspect of the VM television show. I won it last year over at Diana Peterfreund’s blog. She too is a die-hard VM fan. I don’t read a lot of academic or non-fiction, mainly since I had to slog →

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Finished Echo Burning by Lee Child. This is the fifth book in his Jack Reacher series, about an ex-military policeman who roams around the country. In this one, Reacher is hitchhiking through Texas when he gets picked up by Carmen Greer. Carmen has a serious problem. Her abusive husband is going to be released from prison on Monday, and she →

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Finished The Bourne Legacy by Eric Van Lustbader. The original Bourne books were written by Robert Ludlum, who passed away. But Lustbader has written some new Bourne books based on Ludlum’s world/characters (kind of like the non-Ian Fleming James Bond books). I believe Legacy is the first of three Bourne books Lustbader has penned. In this one, Jason Bourne (real →

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