I am officially giving up on Downbelow Station. I think I've maybe made it another 20 pages since last time? I keep picking it up, reading a few pages, and thinking, "You know, I could be scrubbing the toilet right now."

I'm not marking it K (yet) because it isn't that it's bad or even that I particularly don't like it, and I can see that maybe if I'd read it when I was much younger and found more of what it has to say new and exciting, I might have even enjoyed reading it. So it's getting deferred. Maybe I will take it with me on a trip this summer and find out if it makes a good beach read?

But I will move on to maybe something a little bit lighter, I think - the next on the list is much shorter, if nothing else.

Anyway, let's get polls rolling again! This week, to restart, we will have a very special theme: New books acquired since I put all the other FMK categories together.

How FMK works, short version: I am trying to clear out my unreads. So there is a poll, in which you get to pick F, M, or K. F means I should spend a night of wild passion with the book ASAP, and then decide whether to keep it or not. M means I should continue to commit to a long-term relationship of sharing my bedroom with it. K means it should go away immediately. Anyone can vote, you don't have to actually know anything about the books.

I pick a winner on Friday night (although won't actually close the poll, people can still vote) and report results/post the new poll on the following Tuesday, and write a response to the F winner sometime in the next week year.

Link to long version of explanation (on first poll)

( Poll: Akers, Bear, Bacigalupi, Block, Cisneros, Delany, Dick, Downey, Grant, Lee and Miller, Magnason, Pratchett, Rowen, Tamaki, Vande Velde, Wein, Zinnen, anthology )