mycalicocat

I work hard on my books and don't appreciate your sarcasm.
 

I've just started reading the Bubbles books by Sarah Strohmeyer. They are light and fluffy, not quite as well written as Evanovich, but just as funny.
 

Are they mysteries or what?
 

i've just finished absent friends, by s. j. rozan. it is an edgar award winner, but it didn't seem to live up to all of the adjectives on the cover - riveting, exquisite, haunting, brilliant, moving, stunning, ambitious. the epilogue is actually an explanation of the chapter sub-titles, which was a little out of the ordinary. it's the just larger than paperback format that i'm still getting used to. let me know if you would like to read it. "barelyblogging"
 

Barelyblogging, Why do I sense that you are less than enthusiastic about this book?
I think maybe I'll try the Bubbles books instead.
Gretchen, meet Terry. Terry, Gretchen is my daughter-in-law, wonderful soprano, mother of Hannah Grace, scrapbooking entrepreneur,living in Fairfax, Va. Gretchen, Terry is the nemesis of the Houston County District Attorney and County Commission, but also teaches Sunday School and makes brownies.
 

I like PD James, but then my mystery goal is to have characters and locations good enough to count as mental travel. My daughter was once asked why she liked reading the same (Harry Potter) book over and over, and she happily reported that her mother liked to read the same murder mystery over and over, only with different titles. That's not far from the truth.
 

Okay, who's sporcupine? Sounds like susan k superstar perkins weston, but in case it is a visitor from North Dakota, that's fine, too.
 

I figured you'd recognize me without introduction, and you did!

It would make me very happy to discover a Rex Stout or a Ngaio Marsh I haven't read, but I haven't figured out where to look at a complete collection. I've read everything in the local library and everything available at the nearest large bookstore

I do love Spencer, but I think Parker's dialogue is becoming monotonous.

Dick Francis is delighful, and I just laugh out loud when I find out how bankers and jewelers and truckers all turn out to really live and die for race horses.
 

A book blast and then I'm off to bed:

I am in total agreement with Susan Sporcupine on Ngaio Marsh. But I'll tell you something. Wait ten years and you can read them all over. I like Lawrence Block's "Burglar Who" series, and anything by Carl Hiaison.

Off mysteries:
Did you ever read "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time" Wonderful book told from first person p.o.v by autistic teenager.

And have you read Haven Kimmel? "A Girl Named Zippy", "The Solace of Leaving Early" and remarkably best, "Something Rising Light and Swift."

Plus anything by Alice Hoffman. her book "Ordinary Magic" was made into a movie that didn't do it justice. Susan, Hoffman, in case you haven't read her is sort of like "We Have Always Lived in the Castle"
 

i'm still reading trash except for comments of my fellow bloggers.:) i finished tonight jonathan kellerman's twisted, which is a petra connor rather than an alex delaware. i think i like petra better than alex.
 

I am enjoying Barack Obama's "Dreams from My Father" It was written long before he entered politics and is wonderfully honest about the complexities of growing up bi-racial in Hawaii and Indonesia, with a hippie globally-conscious mom, very ordinary white grandparents (who did most of the parenting) and a father who was brilliant but never around much. I bought my copy on sale at Kroger. I don't know if this guy is going to be president some day, but I'm very glad he's around.