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Thursday, October 13, 2011

My Summer Reads



Henning Mankell's Daniel ~ an innocent boy's life is destroyed by the self-centered acts of those around him.
Excellent read *****



Linda Lutz's The Spellman File ~ laughed out loud in a restaurant during the height of the dinner hour [I'm single, OK, I eat alone all the time.  Back off]
Very Entertaining ****




john green and david levithan's will grayson, will grayson ~ i have found my soulmate in character of tiny cooper.  such a well developed story written separately by two writers then woven together.  
another great, entertaining find *****



Steven Saylor's Roma: The novel of Ancient Rome.  Rachel Fairbanks, a lady I work with, purchased this for me from as a gift from my co-workers.  Her decision was based on the book being about Rome and that it was listed on the NYT Bestseller list.  What a great gift. What a fantastic read*****



Bing West's, The Pepper-Dogs.  My sister highly recommended this one.  She said she could not put it down.  I thought that was an overstatement until I found myself parked next to the AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park reading the last two chapters because I could not drive the remaining 10 minutes of my 45 minute commute home without finding out what the hell happened.  The ending pissed me off.  That fact in and of itself does not mean I didn't like the book.  Sometimes I like things that piss me off.  Hell, I was married to Shirley for 5 years.... ****



Lee Vance's The Garden of Betrayal.  I really liked this read.  Good mystery and the words flowed nicely across the page. ****



Laura Wilson's An Empty Death.  I just couldn't get into it.  She spent too much time laying the ground work for what I suppose was going to be a mystery in a mystery.  And, the setting was not one I was interested in reading about.  London getting bombed.  Just lost interest. **

Just Picked up from the Glenn Park Branch....