The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka

 Was not impressed with this book!  The author clearly wanted to write all the stories and coudln't decide which was best so she did, in fact, write all the stories at once, and I guess it gives you a good overview of the Japanese women who immigrated to the US to marry in the first 2 decades of the 20th century, but the way it was written made it impossible to grow attached to anything or anyone.  She would have done better to write 5 shorter stories following women with a variety of luck in their immigration gamble. Even if she rotated between them so that the timepoints line up, that would have been better.  I think the is a serious case of ATBGE.

Skin Game - Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files, Bk. #14)

 This one was real good.  Lots of fun!