Feb 3-9, 2013

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan - takes place in the near future. A young man takes a job in a bookstore and discovers all is not as it seems. He tries to figure out what's going on and stumbles across a mysterious group searching for eternal life. Really much lighter than it sounds and really hard to explain.

5 stars
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Starring Miss Marple by Agatha Christie - I'm on an Agatha kick lately. This was actually 3 books: A Murder is Announced, The Body in the Library and Murder With Mirrors.

3 stars
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The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler - a middle-aged man tries to come to terms with the death of his wife.

4 stars
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Looking for Yesterday by Marcia Muller - the latest in the Sharon McCone series. I've read every book in this series - some are better than others. I like to catch up on all her relatives and the people she works with. I still remember reading her first, Edwin of the Iron Shoes.

4 stars
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Far North by Michael Ridpath - another Icelandic mystery. This time the policeman has spent time in America and become a policeman there before coming back to Iceland. Someone starts picking off the bankers and politicians they feel are responsible for Iceland's financial crisis. Didn't know who the final bad guy was till the very end.

3 stars
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The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman - a young couple living on an island tending a lighthouse in the 1920's find a baby in a lifeboat along with her dead father. Decisions are made which affect many people.

5 stars
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The Bone Bed by Patricia Cornwell - a Kay Scarpetta novel. I keep saying I'm going to quit reading these but my OCD towards series makes me keep going and hoping. Kay whines way to much. She needs to get rid of some of the people in her life. She needs to quit thinking about fooling around on her husband and that every man desires her even if she's 50.

2 stars
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The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith -this time Precious Ramotswe meets Clovis Anderson, the author of the guide to private investigation she follows.

3 stars
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The Racketeer by John Grisham - a man in prison claims he know who has killed a federal judge and will tell for commutation of his sentence. Had no idea where this book was going and it has some twists and turns.

4 stars
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Shakespeare's Trollop by Charlaine Harris - not about Shakespeare at all, instead about a cleaning woman who lives in a town by that name in Arkansas. She always gets involved in mysteries.

3 stars