A few more...

Read the new Artemis Fowl book - The Atlantis Complex. It was reliable and pretty good. Not the best of the series, though. I am reading A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane (he wrote Gone, Baby, Gone). It is going well. I have a few more in there I will update later.

Now that the Whorehouse has closed...

I have been reading a bit more. I didn't have much time to read before the middle of July so I am trying to make up for it. I am currently doing some junk food reading with Steve Berry's The Paris Vendetta and before that I tore through Alex Kava's Black Friday (less than a day, really).

Not so junky, I also finally read The Book of Negroes, by Lawrence Hill. I had that for a couple of weeks and finally got to it. It was pretty good for the kind of book it was. I am not sure what it added to the 'slave story' since I think that ground has been travelled before, except for the fact that it's protagonist was so incredibly well educated and intelligent, and I think that was a major deal for the author. Harder to believe that she was only raped once and that she maintained a connection with her husband despite different owners and a whole lot of time. Also challenging to believe that her 'owners' in her middle life were so kindly and would let her escape go without punishment. It was well written and an interesting historical fiction.

Prior to that I swept through J.D.Robb's Fantasy in Death. She's very reliable. I like the series and it was a nice jump back into reading. I know I read something else in there, but I can't remember... Maybe Rick Riordan's The Red Pyramid? Probably that.