Christmas Books - 2009

I just finished Bone by Bone by Carol O'Connell. Very good. She writes so well.

And now onto the Christmas books. I asked for the Giller Nominees for Christmas and received 2 of them (The Bishop's Man and The Disappeared). I have started The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre since it won and all that. I am only a few pages in, so I will report back later on that. I got a book on Musicals and a book on Screenwriting and the next book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (written by Eoin Colfer since Douglas Adams has passed on). My Mom gave me the 2nd book by the author of The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger?) and my brother gave me one of Carrie Fischer's autobiographies. In addition, I got some Indigo Gift Card $$ so I can go buy more books. A good haul.

I was happy, too, that both boys got several books for Christmas. Oliver got the next 2 Wimpy Kid books and he has been reading them. He also got another Encyclopedia Brown book. Ah! Memories of my childhood! It was good to see him reading on the recent trip to Olds. A true 'Strand'.

Been a little while....

Okay, I have been remiss in updating this. I read Peter Robinson's latest Alan Banks book, Friend of the Devil. It was good. It tied into a previous book and I could actually remember enough of that story to connect to this one. There are some interesting character developments for the ongoing cast. I quite liked it.

I also read Carol O'Connell's Find Me. This is the latest in the Mallory series which I love. I always find those to be the kind of books that you can't stop reading, but you wish it were longer.

Now I have started the latest Patricia Cornwell. It is a Scarpetta book called Book of the Dead. So far so good, but I am not that far in. Benton is acting strange, as is Marino. What will happen? I don't know, but you can bet it will have lots of death.

For Christmas I got Mark the Steven Colbert book I am America (and so can you!). I have started a bit of this and it is funny. Best read imagining Steven Colbert's voice and attitude saying everything in it.

Being sick has allowed for more reading time so I am catching up. We are also on hiatus from rehearsal so that helps...