March 15 - 21, 2015

I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short - to me this was one of those celebrity name-dropping books, he seemed almost more interested in the people he knew than his own story. The telling of his wife's passing was quite touching though.

3 stars
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Motive by Jonathan Kellerman - psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend Detective Milo Sturgis suspect a cold case is connected to a more recent killing. Several twists and turns but they seemed to be more of an effort to pad out the story rather than make it interesting.

3 stars
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The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac by Sharma Shields - When Eli was 9, his mother ran off with a sasquatch. He spends the rest of his life hunting for evidence of what he saw and it affects everyone around him. A very strange book.

2 stars
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The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black - Hazel and Ben live in Fairfold where humans and fairies have an uneasy co-existence. For as long as they can remember a prince has been sleeping in a glass coffin in the woods. One day he's missing and everything changes. A YA with what seems to be the norm for these books, teenage longing.

3 stars
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The Birds of Pandemonium by Michele Raffin - stories from the author's experience with rare birds living at her bird refuge. She started with no knowledge and now has a successful breeding program for birds on the verge of extinction.

3 stars
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Books I quit
Gretel and the Dark by Eliza Granville - extremely confusing and very dark, not worth the effort

We Are Pirates by Daniel Handler - an adult book by the author of the Series of Unfortunate Events for children. And I mean adult in every sense. And written so strangely I couldn't read it.

The Life I Left Behind by Colette McBeth - told from too many viewpoints, including the dead victim. Read the end to see if I was right about who I suspected. I was. Very disappointing, I gave her book Precious Thing 5 stars.

Murder on the Champ De Mars by Cara Black - couldn't get into it, it's possible I wasn't in the right mood.

The Skeleton Road by Val McDermid - rather thin plot with too many characters, just not interesting.