Sept 6 - 12, 2015

Shouldn't You Be in School? by Lemony Snicket - finally, some of the many questions in Stain'd-by-the-Sea are answered in the third book of the series. Someone is setting fires and it all has to do with the mysterious plot of the villain Hangfire. We're still left hanging until the next book, though.

3 stars
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You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day - how playing games on the internet led the author to a fulfilling life. And lots of stress. Humorous, with some language.

3 stars
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Little Black lies by Sharon Bolton - set in the Falkland Islands in 1994. Over two years, two boys have gone missing and now there's a third. The small community wants to believe it's all accidental, but that's becoming more difficult. In the middle of it all is Catrin, who lost her two boys in a tragic accident, ex-military Callum, and Rachel, Catrin's former best friend who was responsible for the accident. Told from those three viewpoints. I have to admit I read the middle pretty fast to get on with the story. Lots of twists at the end.

4.5 stars
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The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler - Simon is a librarian living in a house that is slowly falling into the sea. He receives in the mail a strange book and discovers his grandmother's name in it. It seems almost all the women in his family performed as mermaids in carnivals and drowned at  a young age. The story is told in present time and the 1700's. There are Tarot cards and maybe a family curse, but I didn't read the story that way. This is one you'll probably love or hate.

5 stars