Some Fiction

I finished Accelerated Growth Environment a couple of days ago. I enjoyed it. It is a good length–sometimes a too-long story can result in a DNF for me–but the first third is pretty slow and then from the end of the slow part it is very fast, to the point I saw the progress indicator and wondered how it was going to wrap up (what I actually thought was “This book must have almost no falling action,” which is basically true). It also didn’t wrap in any particularly clever way, which isn’t a fault, just something I’ve come to expect. (On the other hand, I’ve been accused of leaving my plots unfinished, leaving it up to the reader to imagine their own “ending”.) But the plot involves a religious cult, which, having been in one, always stimulates my interest. More times than I can count, I’ve returned to fiction and realized I needed to make sure I didn’t lose the habit. I scanned my digital libraries for a new fiction book to pick up (why is that not a filter option on either of them?!),…