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Currently reading

The Rising : The Newsflesh Trilogy
Mira Grant
Paladin's Grace
T. Kingfisher
Meat Cute : The Hedgehog Incident
Gail Carriger
Cassandra Darke
Posy Simmonds
Shoreland : Socks Suited For Scrabbling Over Rocks, Splashing Through Tide Pools, Staring At The Sea Or Whatever Else Tickles Your Fancy
Hunter Hammersen
Shawl Joy
Sylvia McFadden
Lazarus : The Sourcebook Collection Volume One
Greg Rucka
Old Is The New New
Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie
Mothering Invention
Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie
Knight Terrors
Benjamin Percy, Fabian Nicieza, Scott Lobdell
Becoming Superman : My Journey From Poverty To Hollywood - J Michael Straczynski

J. Michael Straczynski is somebody who I've admired for a long time: for his superior talent at storytelling, for his refusal to let the shallow end of the brain pool screw those stories up, for his integrity, for giving his heart and soul to everything he writes.
And now I've read his autobiography over a less-than-24-hour period (I had to stop and sleep at one point because I didn't want to do JMS the disservice of reading this book with anything less than full attention) and WHAM!!! That admiration is increased by I-can't-even-calculate-how-many-times. It's a story both horrifying and grand and all the other descriptive words (even the third ones) in between and told in excellent style.
And that little matter of a 1 followed by 42 zeroes … Douglas Adams long ago gave us the answer to life, the universe, and everything. ;-)