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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9503959" data-attributes="member: 508">It was another week-long business trip for me, so that meant a lot of time for reading in airports, on planes, and in my hotel room.  I finished the Castle book I'd been reading (it was okay), and then I read two sequels to Stephen Gould's Jumper novels I hadn't known existed until last Sunday at the library: Impulse and Exo, dealing with Davy and Millicent (a married couple who can teleport, from the first two books in the series) and introducing their teenage daughter Cent, the main character of these last two novels.  They were really good reads, keeping me entertained and really playing nicely off the previous books.  Gould came up with some new ways to play around with teleporting people.And now I've just started Holly by Stephen King, which I bought at the airport and have been waiting to read (but the Gould books were library books which will need to be returned, so they took precedence).  This is a novel featuring a character from two of his other books, now taking center stage for the first time, and it's really started off strong, but I'm disappointed to see King has grafted his own politics onto Holly, which I think was a wrong move for her.  But this is a sort of horror-without-the-supernatural genre, meaning its about the terrible things people are willing to do to others, and I think overall I'm going to like it.Johnathan</blockquote>