Week of Nov 4-10, 2012

 Had a busy week this week but the library came through with a bunch of books so I got a lot of reading in too.

Bones Are Forever by Kathy Reichs - This is one of the Temperance Brennan books that the tv series Bones is based on. I didn't think it was one of the better ones. Way too many acronyms and descriptions of forensics techniques. Plus it was about dead babies.

2 stars - I wouldn't recommend it unless you're determined to read every book in the series.
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Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry - This is the second in the Giver series and I enjoyed it the most of the three I've read. Perhaps because I've become used to the author's style, or because I had read the third book previously and so had a little more resolution than normal.

3 stars
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Munster's Case by Hakan Nesser - Set in Sweden, this is about an elderly man murdered in his sleep right after he has won a share in a lottery. The police don't have a clue and seem burdened with ennui and depression. Like many Scandinavian mysteries it's rather dark. These people don't get enough sun in the winter.

4 stars -  because I didn't get an inkling of why the murder happened until more than halfway through the book, and I never guessed the murderer.
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Euginides - a friend gave it 4 stars so I decided to give it a try. About a hermaphrodite and the history leading up to her/his birth and what happens when she becomes truly aware of her true self.

4 stars - Very well written and I didn't find it pruient.
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The Third Gate by Lincoln Child - I wish I had followed my instinct and not finished this book. Personal preference, I don't like supernatural or paranormal books and I didn't realize this was one at first. Archeologists (sp?) are searching for an ancient tomb buried under a swamp called the Sud and calamaties ensue.

1 star - personal preference
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The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton - 16 year old Laurel sees her mother stab a man and 50 years later tries to find the reason. The book goes back and forth in time and is told from different viewpoints but I didn't find that irritating at all. Managed to keep myself from reading the end first and really enjoyed the whole book.

4.5 stars - One of the better books I've read this year.
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Delusion in Death by J D Robb(Nora Roberts) - this is the 35th book in the series and I've read every one. It's a police series set in the future. All the cases take place one right after the other, so only 2 1/2 years have gone by since the first one. These won't be for everyone - there are sex scenes(between the detective and her impossibly rich, impossibly handsome husband) and some of the murders are fairly gruesome. I read them because I'm hooked on the characters and want to know how they're going to develop. This book is about mass murder in a bar caused by a drug that makes all the patrons turn on each other.

3 stars