Almost Perfect Day Off

Pickings have been slim lately for books that I want to read. Right now I have James Patterson's The Postcard Killers. Like most Patterson books, in my opinion, it lacks depth. Maybe when you write a book every few months that is what happens. I actually use to enjoy his Alex Cross series but he lost me somewhere. Now I find his books ok for fillers in between better books. They are quick mysteries with short chapters to keep you turning the pages. He does a lot of collaberations with other authors and this is one. It is written with Liza Marklund who is a Scandinavian author. I imagine she contributed local details if nothing more. This book is set in Sweden. The inside jacket calls it the "scariest vacation thriller ever written". Maybe I just haven't gotten to that part yet? I'm on p.223.

Life of Pi

I loved this book. It was really interesting and thought provoking. I loved all the info about animals and zoo life most of all. It makes me want to go and work for my friend Connie in her zoo. Of course the survival story is incredible! I definitely recommend giving this book a try. I don't like to tell too much of the story so you just have to trust my opinion or not! Here is a little something to jumpstart your curiosity though:
After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

A book on my want to read list is in my hands!

So at our library we have a staff recommends shelf where we have a display for our patrons. Staff keeps it filled with our favorites. I was suppose to be filling it up when I noticed a book that I have had on my WeRead want to read shelf for a long time but keep forgetting to pick up. So thanks to whatever staff member put it up there I have Life of Pi sitting on my table. I will finish up Rough Justice first but it is pretty lame except for a line here or there that catches me off guard.

No time for reading today

but it was a great, happy day! Kim got her new power wheelchair and she wanted to hang out with me all day and talk about how cool it is and how jealous everyone must be! We have been waiting since April for this chair since her old one tanked and she is so happy to have her freedom back.

Myles needed some time today too. He is busy writing but worried now that he has too much material. Too much! Can you imagine? He had me come and give him an opinion on a section he is working on and then LIKE 80% OF THE TIME, does the opposite of what I suggested. Good for him though. That is exactly why I can't write a novel. I would constantly second guess myself.

I am still waiting for a few holds to come in to the library so it will be another Scottoline novel for me. Running From the Law was pretty good. Quick and easy! The heroine Rita was a great laywer who depends on outrageous bluffs to make her case.  This time I'll go with Rough Justice and pray for my new Jeffrey Deaver novel to show up soon.

I hate when that happens

finished up Daughter of the Forest today. Now I have to wait for the second book to come in. I brought home a book that a patron had highly recommended. So I dug into it and tried and tried to see what made her love it but no such luck. I really hate it when I have to close a book without finishing it. So now I have a couple of Lisa Scottoline novels as a back up plan! I just started reading her books recently and find them to be a quick filler in between favorites. They are courtroom thrillers with a sense of humor and strong heroines. So tonight I will start with Running From the Law.

And now for my first book

I am reading a book recommended by my friend at The Ivory Tower Library. It is a fantasy novel. I use to read a lot of fantasy years ago but then I got hooked on mystery so it is rare that I go back and try something different. I am so happy that I am reading Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier. It takes me back to those days when I really loved this genre and now I realized that I have missed it. YAY! That gives me a whole new array of books to dive into. Happy happy happy!
Since I tried to tell my son about this book and got rolling eyeballs back at me while I described swans and starwort shirts, I'll spare you that and give you this professional description:
Juliet Marillier's intensely romantic first novel Daughter of the Forest takes the reader to an Ireland on the edge where history and fairy tale meet. Sorcha, seventh child of a seventh son, finds herself caught up in the manipulations of a wicked and sorcerous stepmother, the whims of faerie and the purely human evil of a fanatical British lord. Acts of kindness have the most terrible of consequences and people's strongest virtues are used against them. First volume of a trilogy, Daughter of the Forest is a stunning debut that takes one of the most moving of fairy stories and renders it in vivid painful detail--rarely have the day-to-day consequences of magic's demands been made so directly unpleasant. Sorcha is a figure of fortitude to stand with the great heroines of contemporary fantasy; she does what she has to and takes the consequences at every turn. The author creates a cast of worthy allies and enemies for Sorcha as she travels from a remote Irish fortress to the depths of a forest in a Britain caught between its Celtic and European identities. --Roz Kaveney 

What is this blog about?

So Sylvia Browne told me to write. No really, she did! The famous psychic Sylvia Browne. My sister and I saw her in Vegas and we each got to ask one question. My question was what I should focus on over the next five years. I was trying to get a lot of bang for my buck with that question and her answer was to write. hmmm...
I would LOVE to write a novel. I have even started on a couple. But the truth is that I am much more of a reader than a writer. I love to lose myself in a mystery or suspense and maybe the occasional romance. My son is a writer. Seeing the dedication he has to sit and write for hours every day and how hard the editing process is makes me realize that I am not that kind of a writer!
So I thought maybe I would write about reading and this blog is my place to do that.