This is the 19th in the Agatha Raisin mystery series...4 more to go...

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Book 92 of 2012

I'm reading each book after the series airs on HBO.

12.21 - a Mayan end of the world novel, though I'm not sure the world will end. Haven't finished it yet.

And when she was good - by Laura Lippman. Another stand-alone, not a Tess Monaghan novel. I like Lippman. The stand alones are little far fetched, but they are pretty suspenseful, the characters are pretty well developed, likable where they're supposed to be.

One that I've started but can't seem to get through: Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn. I loved her first two books, can't seem to make my way through this one.

A really terrific first novel by an American woman who was once married to a Saudi and lived in Saudi Arabia.

A 16-year-old girl disappears three days before her arranged marriage and is later found dead in the dessert under mysterious circumstances. The friend of the family who is quietly asked to investigate the situation finds many inconsistencies and differing views of what happened, and his puzzlement is only increased by the bold and strangely intriguing woman who works handling female corpses in the medical examiner's office.

Bedside book:I'm just about to start Faye Kellerman's "Gun Games."

asking for people with over 10,000 to respond...didn't see your name, so figured I'd let you know....

Working on "The Big Money".

by Barbara Kingsolver

on how Assid got put into Dept. Q. He's a delightful character and I wish I could remember everything in The Keeper.. about him....

Got a new female cop in this one too...

Just started and it looks like a good one. It's the 2nd in a mystery series about a cold-crime police unit headed by Carl Mørck, an experienced homicide detective in Department Q, and his assistant, Assad, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Book 93 of 2012

unusual story, really horrible bad guys who thankfully all died at the end. First 100 pp a little slow, but it picks up.

I really liked the parts where Morck, Assad and Rose interacted and am looking forward to a sequel.

I'll be finishing soon on Hamish Macbeth & Agatha Raisin - both series by M. C. Beaton...

eerily foreshadows the 2000 theft. I'm enjoying the series. I'm sorry I waited so long.

I'm three-quarters done. Subtitled "An Apocalypse", sort of a Catholic version of "Left Behind", but much better-written, rivaling Umberto Eco in quality and humanity. I wasn't expecting this at all. Got it at half-price books for a dollar.

It's 5:30am. I've been reading since one or one-thirty, I think. Couldn't put the book down.

The third Grey Man book. Apparently, Brad Pitt's production company has acquired the series as a vehicle for him to play Court Gentry. Whether he could play a fairly anonymous character would be my question. His roles have been pretty memorable. Of course, I could be forgetting roles that weren't memorable...

Still, he'd be a better fit than Cruise/Reacher, in any event.

Not as satisfying as his earlier works. I think the formula is getting thin.

I'm about 7/8 finished with it, and if you like historical fiction, I highly recommend it.

For want of a better term, the 1947 Alberta Hannum novel "Roseanna McCoy" is the OVER-THINKING-NESSED novel I have ever read!
It's a fictional account of the relationship between Roseanna McCoy and Johnse Hatfield. I picked up a 1975 paperback copy after I had watched "The Hatfields and McCoys" miniseries last spring.
The first part of the book is the best. There's a lot of conversation, and what struck me was how much the writing in the first part reminded me of Catherine Marshall's "Christy." Marshall must have been influenced by Hannum's understanding of the accents and language of Appalachia.
Then Johnse and Roseanna meet, and much of the conversation disappears. It is replaced by page after page, chapter after chapter, of Roseanna's over-analysis of the few times she spent with Johnse, her wondering what he meant by each word, if she would see him again, and what they would say. Their lovemaking is downplayed, although it is strongly hinted at.
If this had been written as a first-person teen girl's diary, it would have made more sense, because almost the entire story takes place inside Roseanna's head.
The book ends with them breaking up only a few days after they first get together. None of what happened to Roseanna afterward is ever mentioned.

excellent book

Wanted something light - just a few more left in this series. This is the 20th in the Agatha Raisin series....




Book 94 of 2012