I am in the mood for a Dean Koontz book but apparently I don't have any that I haven't read yet. I could have sworn I do. So instead, I will read Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire (author of Wicked). I like his books.

I love Gregory Maguire too. I'll have to look for Mirror Mirror. Thanks, oldbroad!

i just read a sample of Mirror Mirror on Amazon and i really like his writing style.

I read and liked all of his strange and compelling Wicked series. I'll also have to check out Mirror Mirror.

Just starting the Jim Butcher 'Dresden Files' series chronicling professional wizard, Harry Dresden's exploits.

I am rereading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I last read this book about 50 (!!) years ago so it is basically a new book for me.

I've read all the Dresden Files books, Soot. Harry Dresden is one of my favorite fantasy characters, and I've been hoping Butcher has another book is in the works.

Marian,
I also read the book many, many moons ago, but I gave it and several others to a young friend who adores Austin.

I'm really liking American Rust with Jeff Daniels and Maura Tierney.

I started reading the Glass and Steele series by C. J. Archer and gobbled up the first 5 books (of 13) this past week. They're mystery-fantacies in a Victorian England where those with magic must keep it secret.

In the first book, The Watchmaker's Daughter, we meet India Steele, whose father has died and his shop has been taken over by the man she was supposed to marry. She is a skilled horologist who worked with her father for most of her life, but the watchmakers' guild refused to give her membership, despite the fact her father was a member. Alone and unemployed, her future looks grim until she meets Matthew Glass, who has been looking for a particular watchmaker to fix his special watch. Matt has secrets, including a mysterious past, but she agrees to help him and joins his household as a companion to his aunt.

One thing I like about this series is the books follow one another as if they were written as one big book. The next one in line begins where the previous one ends, but without hateful cliffhangers and tedious plot recaps. Glass and Steele help Scotland Yard solve crimes, and the stories have some nice twists as well as romantic sparks between the protagonists.

I also read two more of Kimberly Lemming's funny fantasy rom-coms, That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf and That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human. I'm hoping for more to come in this series because they're great fun.

I'm taking a break from the Glass and Steele series and have just started T. J. Klune's Somewhere Beyond the Sea, the sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea.

Those sound worth a look LadyK, although I am still binge reading CJ Cherryh's Foreigner series (currently half way through) with John Scalzi's The Last Emperox waiting (the last in a trilogy of which I read the first two a few years ago), and various other items waiting in my Libby library reserved queue as they become available (conveniently they appear to have conveniently varied estimated waiting times).

I always think I'm catching up with my to-be-read list, and then something new grabs my attention. I've already read 65 books this year, but it's just a tiny drop in a very big bucket. At this rate, I'm going to have to be reincarnated as a librarian in order to finally get caught up.

I found a French themed SF magazine (Polaris 4) from the 70ies in a book shop.

The best piece so far. The Xipéhuz from 1887. Amazingly good, considering the age. About a pre-Sumerian genius defeating an alien invasion.

The magazine meant the author J.-H. Rosny was uneven in his writing but his best works were as good as the much more famous Jules Verne.

Then there was an early SF work of Pierre Boulle of Plantet of the Apes fame. Not his best work, and I leave it at that.

The Xipehuz sounds interesting Fogfighter: it seems to have been available as an ebook in various translations so I am hoping to track it down.