1 - My literary fiction chapter doesn't need nearly as much work as I'd thought, and is progressing nicely.
2 - My first ARC from the LibraryThing Early Reviewers' program is here - Barbara Wood's Woman of a Thousand Secrets. I confess, I experimented a bit in requesting this book, as I'd never asked for one before, but the subject matter intrigued me: a woman in Central America before the time of Columbus tries to return to her birth people, which begins a great adventure in the land of the Maya. Since part of the algorithm for review copy distribution in LT is based on your existing LT holdings, and since I have a pretty sizeable historical fiction collection, I guessed that if I ever asked for a historical novel, I had a good chance of getting it. I was right. Voila. Unlike most places, LT encourages pre-pub reviews of these ARCs, so I'll be posting a review on LT (and copying it here) as soon as I'm able.
3 - The long-awaited ARC for Devil's Brood has arrived, complete with much improved jacket art. It's 734 pages long, weighs 2.25 lbs, and seems to be happy in its new home, so I don't see it going anywhere.
The books in (2) and (3) are currently numbers 4 and 5 in my TBR pile, after some more pressing commitments, unless I can manage to shuffle them around before my other reviews come due. I am very tempted to read (3) immediately...
Unfortunately, while I was typing this post, my black cat, Max, had a regurgitation accident all over the carpet. I think this is payback for gloating about the Penman ARC. Fair enough.