Lacking Natural Simplicity

Halfway to the Grave, A Night Huntress Novel by Jeaniene Frost, copyright 2007; Avon Books/HarperCollinsPublishers, November 2007. This book announces on the spine that it is a catagory “Paranormal Romance”. It's probably a little more to the romance side of things than I prefer, but still enjoyable.

Usage Yojimbo, Book 1: The Ronin, by Stan Sakai, copyright 1987, 2007; Fantagraphics Books, eighth edition, March 2007. I'd long heard that Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo series, featuring the eponymous rabbit bodyguard in an alternate Nippon of anthropomorphic animals, was a classic in the field. Having read the first collection of those stories I have to agree. I'll definitely be reading the rest.