July novel-reading (sorry it's late)

I have been extremely distracted. There are plural emotional upheavals going on in my social vicinity and I can't pay as much attention as I'd like to any of them, because I'm about to go to IDEC and be mostly incommunicado for a week. I've had a ton of things I've been wanting to write about and this is very few of them (I haven't even written on the book Brendan asked me about at the start of last month yet), but my weblog-conscience won't allow me to head off to the conference without at least getting around to my belated monthly book-keeping.

Elizabeth Bear, Dust
Pamela Dean, Tam Lin (reread)
Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds (reread)

Surprising nobody, Tam Lin is the first book I've read twice since I started keeping track.