Kathy Reichs' latest, "Bones Are Forever", was really good, but started off very sad. Brennan is called in to examine the body of an infant, and while searching the apartment of the suspected mother two more infants are found. The mom has disappeared, and Brennan and Ryan go into the wilds of the upper Northwest, where the First Nations live. Brennan uncovers a plot involving diamond mines. It was good, I tried very hard to pay close attention, since her books are so dense with information.
"An Apple for the Creature" is a collection of short stories featuring supernatural beings in a classroom setting edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner. I'm not normally a big short story fan, but this collection had a lot of really good ones in it, and I enjoyed it.
"The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde is his first Thursday Next novel, and it was very clever. It takes place in an alternate reality, where people take their literature very seriously. Thursday Next is a member of S0-27, special investigators dedicated to literature. Thursday's uncle Mycroft invents a machine that allows people to jump into books, and uber-bad guy Acheron Hades kidnaps Mycroft and uses the machine to kidnap Jane Eyre from the original manuscript. Thursday dives into the novel to save not only Jane but the story. It was very charming, I enjoyed it.
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