What I'm reading, these days

Here in Houston, we have have these things called "book swaps" which are rather awkwardly named, but they're where science fiction fans get together and talk about the books they've read and they loan them out to people who are interested in them.  I go to two of these groups, the "North Houston" group, which usually meets up off 249 and the "Katy Freeway" group, which meets near the Katy Freeway.  (Imagine that.)

I wind up mostly reading books I get there, and right now is no exception.  I just finished a collection of Neil Gaiman stories called Smoke and Mirrors that I'm borrowing from Doug of the North Houston group, and I just started a book called As the Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer that I got from Anita at the Katy Freeway group.

I borrowed the Neil Gaiman book because I truly enjoyed Good Omens, which was a collaboration between Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett and I've tried to read a couple of Pratchett's books and, well, they aren't my favorites.  So, I thought, maybe it was Neil Gaiman's contribution that made me like Good Omens.  Judging by Smoke and Mirrors, though, that's not it.  I continue to recommend Good Omens.  Smoke and Mirrors, not so much.

Maybe I'll remember to talk about As the Crow Flies when I'm done with it.  Perhaps not.  It's kind of historical fiction, a lot like Robert B. Parker's All Our Yesterdays.