What are you reading the week of May 5, 2013?

[getting old in mke]

1. _The Prophet of Yonwood_ by Jeanne Duprau

YA prequel to the City of Ember books. Reading for series completeness. You guys ever find yourselves doing that?

Listening: _Finity's End_ by CJ Cherryh. With this one, I'll have visited (or revisited) all the Company Wars books during the last year or so. Her world (well, universe--not a lot takes place on worlds) building seems as natural as it did twenty years ago. That is, when she gets into exposition somehow, everything seems "but of course that's how things are." And her way of using internal monologue to drop that exposition in seems to be mostly "well, I know x, but how does that apply to y?" where x is the exposition and y is a legitimate plot point and that doesn't ever get in the way, at least for me.