Why I read it: There was a reference to the author on some website or other (might have been Jeff Vandermeer's ) telling about a new book coming out. The library didn't have that one. It had this one, though. Tastes like chicken: That other (vampire) book I haven't finished yet (I'll finish it soon. Next. Really.). C.S. Lewis's A Horse and His Boy (Narnia). The flavour seemed more Persian than Arabian to me, though I can't think of anything Persian I've actually read. But maybe that's because I know more Persians than Saudis. Bookmark: Cardboard packaging from a USB key I bought a couple of weeks ago. What I liked: The detail was very rich. It made me want to wear more colours. Unlike the afore-mentioned vampire story, which is also stories within stories within stories, these ones are more lightly related. The vampires are all closely related, about the same place, and the same vampire. These are characters pausing to tell their history, their ...
No one is listening...