| Thursday, November 02, 2006 |
| Books, Books, Books |
Books read, October '06:
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Life, Death and Bialys by Dylan Schaffer
The Deep Blue Alibi by Paul Levine
The Clovis Incident by Pari Noskin Taichert
The James Deans by Reed Farrel Coleman
Books bought:
The Deep Blue Alibi by Paul Levine
Kill All the Lawyers by Paul Levine
The Clovis Incident by Pari Noskin Taichert
The Belen Hitch by Pari Noskin Taichert
First Cut by Peter Robinson
Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen (purchased as a gift)
Even though I sometimes joke that I was born without the "shopping gene," there is one type of store I will always happily spend time in, and that's a bookstore. I actually planned our Arizona trip so I could visit the Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, which is one of the largest mystery bookstores in the U.S. I was not disappointed; the store only sells new books, but they seem to have just about every single mystery currently in print. One of my clients, Rhys Bowen, happened to be signing there; at that point in the trip, it was nice to encounter a friendly face from home.
I wrote last month how much I loved Paul Levine's Solomon vs. Lord, so I was compelled to buy the two sequels. Unsurprisingly, The Deep Blue Alibi was not nearly as good as Solomon, but in a bit of synchronicity, I happened to be reading it while we were in Las Vegas, staying in a hotel that was home to the LV branch of Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville restaurant. Alibi has a plot thread about Buffett and the characters visit the Margaritaville in Key West, FL. In honor of the book, I suggested we go to Margaritaville—I don't care for Jimmy Buffett's music, but hey, margaritas!—but when we stepped inside, there was a helicopter landing inside the restaurant. Or maybe it was a seaplane. In any event, the decibel level was astounding. Needless to say, we went elsewhere.
People in my book club swear that book #3, Kill All the Lawyers, is much better than Alibi, so at least I have that to look forward to. I thought it might make a cheeky selection to bring along to jury duty, but I decided to go with the less provocatively titled Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger. |
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I so envy you. Although I'm not sure why I don't have time to read many books...might have something to do with all this commenting on other people's blogs. Anyway: my own rather brief list would run as follows:
Last book read: The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer
Last book begun: The End by Lemony Snicket
Books not read yet, sitting on a shelf behind me: The System of the World by Neal Stephenson; The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists/The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab by Gideon Defoe (I think I have Editrixie to thank for that one); The Affected Provincial's Companion, Vol. 1 by Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy; The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde; Mirrorshades anthology, ed. Bruce Sterling (ten cents at the library's used sale); The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov (I had read this...about 15 years ago); Failed States by Noam Chomsky; American Theocracy by Kevin Phillips; and two gifts from a former (rather granola) student: Das Energi by Paul Williams and Pablo Neruda's Memoirs. At my current rate, I should finish these by about the time it's that year named after that Rush album. (The verification is in a particularly tricky font tonight: pijlcxhw? We'll see...)
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I so envy you. Although I'm not sure why I don't have time to read many books...might have something to do with all this commenting on other people's blogs. Anyway: my own rather brief list would run as follows:
Last book read: The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer
Last book begun: The End by Lemony Snicket
Books not read yet, sitting on a shelf behind me: The System of the World by Neal Stephenson; The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists/The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab by Gideon Defoe (I think I have Editrixie to thank for that one); The Affected Provincial's Companion, Vol. 1 by Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy; The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde; Mirrorshades anthology, ed. Bruce Sterling (ten cents at the library's used sale); The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov (I had read this...about 15 years ago); Failed States by Noam Chomsky; American Theocracy by Kevin Phillips; and two gifts from a former (rather granola) student: Das Energi by Paul Williams and Pablo Neruda's Memoirs. At my current rate, I should finish these by about the time it's that year named after that Rush album. (The verification is in a particularly tricky font tonight: pijlcxhw? We'll see...)