Books: What are you reading tonight?

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I should finish Chris Moore's Bloodsucking Fiends tonight. It's okay, not his best. It's a vampire story.

I'm also almost done with Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone - the first full-length detective novel in the English language. It's written from three perspectives in a victorian style and since the three perspectives share facts it's a little slow in parts. Numerous red herrings keep the reader on his/her toes though. Collins rips off Poe, but references to EAP are dropped throughout. Collins uses books that the characters are reading to provide backstory and insight, which is a pretty cool device.

Been trying to get into DK Goodwin's Lincoln book, but it's tedious and very, very long.

Next up is a bio on Stonewall Jackson.