I’m currently reading a couple of books. How to knit a wild bikini by Christie Ridgeway, an escapist romance that I am only a couple of chapters into. From previews I read about it, it looks like it may get a little steamy…
Also by my bedside is A Pocketful of History: Four Hundred Years of America–One State Quarter at a Time by Jim Noles. It is a fascinating book of readable nonfiction about the history behind each state quarter. Over about ten years, the US Mint has issued a quarter commemorating each state with a different design. I discovered this book through my daily email from DearReader.com. It’s an online book club and every weekday I get a small portion of a book in my email. There’s a different book each week and I get to read the first two to three chapters. That’s usually enough to tell me whether or not I want to read it.
Your turn: tell me what you’re reading or just finished and what you think of it. ; )
Just finished “reading”[audiobook]Fearless Fourteen, the latest ‘Stephanie Plum’ novel by Janet Evanovich. It was the best yet…I have read them all. I have also read several of her other, earlier books. None of them hold a candle to the Plum series, which often makes me laugh so hard that I nearly drive off the road!
Also have recently read several by Andrew Vachss, which I not only very much enjoyed, but from which I learned a lot. Vachss is a lawyer as well as an author, but most of all, he is an activist for abused children. He is a brilliant, fascinating, and dedicated man. Strangely enough, I heard of him from students where I work as a teacher. He is a great favorite there, which is to me a testament to Vachss’s knowledge and credibility. These guys … are capable of spotting a ‘phony’ a mile away. Vachss’s language may be raw, but he clearly knows what he is talking about…and in the underworld in which he has chosen to involve himself, this is an absolute prerequisite. If you have an interest in how criminals really think, and how a real insider sees the justice system as well as our political system,then brace yourself, and read the amazing Andrew Vachss!
I just finished Deaf Sentence by David Lodge. I got it out of the library. I had never heard of him before, which is surprising, since this is his 14th book. The book is intelligent and funny and discusses the issue of getting older and experiencing a hearing loss, as well as other physical problems. There are enough side stories to keep the book entertaining and not sad. Hey, we all get old, don’t we?
Now I’m reading The girl with the Dragon Tatoo. I’m 85 pages in and I’m hooked!
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