Eh, what the hey, been a while...
Last Finished: The Untamed (Book 1 of the Dan Barry series), by Max Brand. A classic Western with a supernatural twist. The wildborn "Whistling" Dan has uncanny powers over beasts and a strange yellow light in his eyes when riled... as he is when the notorious outlaw Jim Silent draws first blood in a fistfight. From that moment on, a rematch is eventual, and not reason nor danger nor the voice of the woman he loves can turn Dan from his destiny. By modern standards, the characters and story are rather melodramatic, light on logic in favor of action. The hero Dan Barry is essentially a prototype superhero before the term existed, in addition to being the distillation of most every preadolescent boy's imagination, especially when being a cowboy was the ultimate dream. Some of Brand's prose is nice, but overall I found it too dated to fully enjoy.
(Before that, I read a quick "writing" guide on Kindle. I had never read a writing guide that started by dismissing the notion that proper grammar has any place outside of a college textbook... TBH, I only finished it out of morbid curiosity about what kind of guide such a person could pen.)
Currently Reading: Your Inner Fish, by Neil Shubin. The story of evolution as revealed by our bodies and correlations in the fossil record and the natural world. Just started it, but thus far it's accessible to undereducated readers like me.
I'm picking at a Kindle title, too, though I'm on the fence about whether I'll press ahead and finish at this point. It's a YA action piece, but the logic's stretching credulity and I'm getting a little tired of being jerked back and forth between two characters, not to mention waiting for someone to explain just why everything is happening and what the two MCs are going to do about it.
I haven't gotten back to Warbreaker (Brandon Sanderson) in a while, largely because I just keep having other things to do than pick up a hardcover.