Lightweight for travel...

I finished Not in the Flesh. Typical Rendell, except I figured it all out way before Wexford so I started to wonder how smart he really is... Hmmmm....

I know have to sort through my stuff to decide what to take on my TRIP TO TORONTO! Woot! Woot! I want it to be light enough to carry well, but I also want it to be a good read and I don't want to run out of words on my travels. I picked up the Deborah Crombie book, Water Like a Stone. Mom lent me it and it is a paperback. I also have Wicked (yeah, yeah, I know I am late on picking that up) and it is a paperback as well. I can always put extras in my suitcase for the trip home and shuffle. I just read so quickly when I have uninterrupted time. I pray that I do not have chatty seat companions! I am not good at anti-social so if they talk to me I will talk to them and I will be wishing I were reading!

Continuing in the same Vein...

I finished Artemis Fowl and then re-read the second book in the series, the Arctic Incident. They were good and quick. I shall likely plow through the rest of the series just as fast. I have now started Ruth Rendell's Not in the Flesh. It is the latest Inspector Wexford book. I am not sure what will be next. Now that Crimes is done I intend to get some serious reading done. I have a huge stack from the last trip to Chapters. I started a Kim Stanley Robinson book and then realised I had missed the second book in the series and this was a third book, so I need to get the middle book first. It may also mean re-reading the first book. There may be something to Mark's habit of waiting until the whole series is out (or at least a sizeable chunk of it) before starting the reading. I cant' always do that - some authors must be read immediately!

Okay - Time for an update...

I finished the first John Harvey book my mother leant me. It was good. I then read Gone to Ground - also by Harvey. It was good, but it was more difficult to get "into" the two detectives in that series. I then read Ruth Rendell's The Water's Lovely. I quite liked it because Rendell has a real knack for writing flawed characters and she is not afraid to make then internally ugly and at the same time they always seem to feel quite justified in their ugliness. I am now re-reading Artemis Fowl (Eion Colfer) because it is a fun quick read and my brain is acting funny lately. I think it is the diet coke withdrawl or the stress of the show (which you should all come and see - it's wonderful!). For young readers I highly recommend the Artemis Fowl series. They are clever and well-written and they don't take themselves too seriously like that series about Wizards... you know what I mean...