Books I've Read

Violet is planning for her quinceanera that her abuela insists she should have. Interesting, funny. ALA Notable.

Another fine entry (#3) in the Thursday Murder Club series.

Thursday Murder Club #2. Really really good!!!

I really enjoyed this, so many red herrings! I thought I knew who done it, but each time I was wrong!

Non-fiction, a U.S. Army surgeon recounts his time in Korea during the war. Very interesting.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It was very easy to read, which to me means it was very well written. I've read a number of books by famous authors that are very choppy, it's like no one edited them. This flows very nicely. I learned a bit about marshes and North (It WAS North, wasn't it? I always forget!) Carolina. The ending/reveal, though. No spoiler, but I just don't believe it.

Auggie has been home-schooled up to now, but this semester he going to start fifth grade in a regular school. Well, it's a private school, but it is going to be rough because Auggie has a birth defect that makes him look very scary to children. And adults. A really excellent book, I highly recommend it.

Well, I read it. I didn't much care for it. I don't know what the author is trying to say. I know he is trying to say something, and I respect that, but I'm not getting it.

Finder Chronicles, #2. Really really enjoyed this one, just like the book one. Now on to book three!!

Finder Chronicles, #1. Repo man in space? Well, it's more than that! I liked it very much. Humor helps, some snappy patter, too. I've started book two already!

(Finder Chronicles, #4). Fergus finds himself shipwrecked on a planet in an improbably place. Lots of nifty dialogue!

Finder Chronicles, #3. Ferris has to gather all the pieces and put them back together again.

A very long book, but not as tedious (in the middle) as I was led to believe. I was not able to discern the tedious part, actually. I've thought the series is rather reminiscent of a poor-man's Tolkien, as it were, but then that makes it more accessible to a younger reader, too. I've certainly enjoyed reading it. There seems to be more humor in this, volume 3 of what is now a "cycle" instead of a trilogy. Or maybe I'm just more sensitive to it. I really enjoy the character of Angela. I wonder if there is any fan fiction about her?

Eragon gets a make over.

Pretty darn good story of a boy and his dragon.

Finally I can put "Writ" to this series. My favorite character was Angela, and we find out very little more about her, but that little is very intriguing.

A pregnant teen dies in the hospital, later the girls doctor is murdered, V.I. looks for answers!

V.I. finds a body in a pond. Lots of commentary on the Patriot Act. Not sure who did what to whom. Maker's Mark reference.

V.I. Warshawski.

V.I. Warshawski's aunt is homeless after her SRO hotel burns down.