January list

A slow month for reading because there was too much going on at work. It's pretty sad when I'm too tired to read in the evenings and too busy to take a full lunch break and read. Oh well.....at least I did read something non-fiction for a change! Here they are:

Tony Hillerman, The Shape Shifter
This one was a bit weak in terms of plot, but I still enjoyed visting with Leaphorn and Chee.

Michael Korda, Making the List
An interesting book about the history of the bestseller lists. Korda provides lists of the top 10 books from each year (Publishers Weekly lists) and discusses each decade overall in terms of cultural history and what was happening in the publishing business. Really pretty fascinating.

Jo Fielding, Grand Avenue
This started off strong but sunk into melodrama and wrapped up with a ridiculous courtroom battle.

Greg Iles, Turning Angel
Not very pleasant subject matter (murder and sexuality and drugs and teens), but I really like the characters and am glad he wrote another book about Penn.

Earlene Fowler, The Saddlemaker's Wife
This was a nice departure from the Benni Harper series. After her husband's death, a woman discovers he had hidden secrets about his family and she visits his hometown to uncover the truth.

Cassandra Chan, A Village Affair
#2 in the Gibbons/Bethancourt series. Gibbons is a Scotland Yard detective and Bethancourt is his aristrocratic amateur sleuth friend (sort of a less quirky version of Jury and Melrose). Enjoyable British mystery.