Mind Candy

Apparently Tess Gerritsen started her career as a Danielle Steel wanna be. I didn't realize the novel "In Their Footsteps" was written in the mid 90's when I picked it up. This was a bit of mystery with romance thrown in and not my cup of tea. Her later novels are usually very good but this was just fluff.

Jammie day

I debated on my day off without hubby to clean two months worth of dust from my house or take a jammie day and read a book. The book won with a nap thrown in. Kathy Reichs' latest "Spider Bones" is excellent. It's one of her Temperance Brennan series and this one took us from Montreal where a body was discovered in a pond but the fingerprints said he had been dead since Vietnam in 1968. The body that was mistaken for him was exhumed and that lead Tempe to Hawaii where they do the searches for missing remains of all the wars' MIAs. More mystery and intrigue follow and even an attempt on her life. Couldn't put it down for more than my nap time.

New series

I bought the latest Dean Koontz book which happened to be part of his Frankenstein series. I have two others but never read them but now I have to do so and also I will need to order the one I'm missing to fill in the blanks. This one was good even without having the background but it definitely left me hanging since there was no ending. There's a whole other novel waiting to be written to complete this latest story. A town in Montana has been put under seige by Victor Immaculuate formerly known as Victor Frankenstein (the creator of Frankenstein). Everyone thought he was killed two years ago but his clone is alive and well and creating havoc in Montana. People are seeing double as they are replaced by Victor's non human creations. Enter Frankenstein and his former cop friends to help take back the town and destroy his creator. Have to wait until next spring to find out what happens next but I can find out what happened before.

Another Patterson, or is it?

Finished "The Postcard Killers" by James Patterson and Liza Marklund. Yes, it had the Patterson look and the short chapters that he's famous for but other than that....I think it was all Liza. Not like his style. Took me till half way through the book to get into it at all. Hope this isn't a new series of books. It took place in Europe. A couple is traveling around Europe killing off couples and staging them to look like famous paintings from that area. They are being hunted by a NY detective whose daughter was one of the victims. His helper is a journalist who received one of the postcards that was part of the killers calling cards. Why do you need so many co-authors, Mr. Patterson?

A change of pace

Finished a novel by Deanna Raybourn called "The Dead Travel Fast." Set in the mid 1800's young Theodora leaves her home in Edinburgh and heads to Transylvania to visit a former school friend. She aspires to write a book and what better place to do so than in the heart of vampires and werewolves country. Strange things start happening quickly. Nice break from my other recent reads.

Finished

I think I'm all caught up now with the Harlan Coben books. Now I'm depressed that I don't have anymore. He's just so good! There was no Myron Bolitar this time. This was about a guy who while in college jumped into the middle of a fight to help his friend out and ended up killing a kid accidentally. He went to jail for five years. When he got out he finished school to be a lawyer but because of his record he couldn't practice. He worked with his brother's law firm as a paralegal. Suddenly he's being victimized. Seems his record is making him a target. This novel took lots of twists and turns and came up a winner.

Caught up with Myron

I finished the last of the Myron Bolitar series by Harlan Coben. This one was
"Darkest Fear" and it was equal to all the others. This time Myron discovers he's a father of a 13 year old boy with a rare disease that can only be cured with a blood transfusion. The problem is finding the donor. They know that there is one but he's gone off the grid and finding him leads to a serial killer. Another one that you don't want to put down.

Got my cast off today but the xrays showed that the bone hasn't knitted together so I'm in an air cast for another month. It was very painful trying to get around and I had to break down at work and put some thick gauze along the inside of the cast to keep it from cutting into my leg. The upside is that when I got home I soaked in nice soapy hot water and scrubbed off the dead skin. What a relief! I could sleep without it but would have to put it on everytime mother nature called during the night and that velco sound is very loud in the middle of the night.

5 more days

With luck I will be out of the hard cast by Monday! Can't wait...I've been so claustrophobic wearing it that I could just scream.

Finished another Harlan Coben novel. This was "One False Move." Once again it was great. I left it at work last night when I left and didn't realize it till I got home. I was so frustrated! I started the next one to keep from going nuts and got so hooked on it that I didn't want to put it down. Stopped off at work to pick up the book and finished it just now. I'll be grabbing up the next one to catch up where I left off earlier today. Myron Bolitar was at it again! He got involved with a young black woman who was a star basketball player for the new women's league. Her father used to be a friend of Myron's and he was missing. The woman's mother had disappeared 20 years ago and now Brenda wanted Myron to find her father and her mother. To top it off he had to keep Brenda safe from someone who was threatening her life. Brenda dangled the promise that she would be willing to sign up with his agency for representation if Myron found the missing parents. Once again he had me fooled as to who dunit right till the end. Not many do. I'm down to the last book now of the Bolitar series. I'm not even sure that the series is being continued. Good thing I like Coben's other books.

Heading out

Killing some time before my crazy work hours. God, I hate this 9:30 to 6:30 shift. Looks like it's going to be permanent. I've been awake since 4:30 so I'll be a zombie by 2 which is my new lunch time. Got to put some requests in for some weekends off or I'll never get them.

Finished Harlan Coben's "Back Spin." I think I'm down to two of Myron Bolitar's series left. This one was just as great! Being a sport agent has lead Myron to the US Open in search of new clients. His attitude toward golf is exactly like mine. Stupid game! But there's money to be made. What he finds is a kidnapping and murder. Usually he has the help of his sidekick, Win, but this time he's on his own. The kidnapping involves estranged members of Win's family and he refuses to help. That is also a mystery that is uncovered at the end of the novel. Grabbing the next book and heading out.

Day off

Thank God for days off! Doesn't look like this new job is going to get me two in a row. Every 3 - 4 days I get one. Not liking it but I'm hoping some miracle will happen and I can retire in another year or at least go back to part time.

I purchased the rest of Harlan Coben's novels that I haven't read. I think I own them all now and I'm going to read them in order and fill in the blanks for one of my favorite characters. Myron Bolitar. This novel was the first that Coben wrote about Myron. It's "Deal Breaker." Loved it as I've loved all his books. Once again I was chuckling through the murder and mayheim. This time Myron and his sidekick, Win, were trying to solve the murder/disappearance of his ex-girlfriend's younger sister. What a trip! Porn, gambling, murder, etc. I have four more novels to go till I'm caught up.

The ankle bones connected to the leg bone

I slipped in the shower the other night and my bum leg went slipping off the edge and slammed into the tub. Now I have a nasty bruise on the inside of that knee. By the next morning the whole leg had swelled right down to the toes. The cast was cutting into the top of my foot. Of course that was the day I had to be on my feet the most at work. Sure was glad for today off! What a klutz!


Tomorrow is a big day! Our 32nd wedding anniversary! I'm working till 6:30 so plans for a night out are probably not going to materialize but after all these years I guess it isn't a big deal. Can't believe how time has flown by. Seems like just last year that we were the talk of the office.

Finished a great novel by Louise Murphy. "The True Story of Hansel and Gretel" puts a new spin on the old fairy tale. Two very young Polish Jewish children are dropped off in the woods during WWII to make their own way so their father and stepmother could lure the German's away from the children. They are told to never use their old names and to go by Hansel and Gretel. They were to look for a farmer that would take them in. They wandered around until they came to a hut occupied by an old woman who against her better judgement, took them in and got them phony papers to proclaim them to be Christian. She kept them safe even though there was a strong German presence in the local town and suspicions were high. The parents joined the particians that wandered the forests killing all the Germans that they encountered. This was an excellent novel and I'll be checking to see if there are more by this author. It was a good find for me on Amazon.