More good books
A few more books to recommend that I read this past week -
Winter Study by Nevada Barr is set on Isle Royale in winter during the wolf/moose study when all of the tourists are off the island. [For those of you who haven't read Nevada Barr, all of her books are set in National Parks - this is the second one set at Isle Royale - the first at Isle Royale was A Superior Death.] Like her other books, it is a good read and creates a great "sense of place" that draws such a perfect picture of the Park that you feel you know it. Plus it makes you want to visit Isle Royale. Have any of you been there? It's been on my list of places I want to go for a long time - along with Ireland, the Grand Canyon, and an Alaskan cruise. Maybe next year.
The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith is one of his Isabel Dalhousie series set in Scotland. Isabel is a moral philosopher who has just been forced out as editor of "Review of Applied Ethics" by a London philosophy professor who schemed behind her back with the editorial board chairman. This is the first book I've read by him set in Scotland. I've read a few in his African Precious Ramotswe series (recommended to me by Debbie and Bonnie). They're good books too.
I listened to the McCall Smith book on CD while driving to and from St. Ignace in the UP this week. The narrator was Davina Porter who is a great reader. Tish and Lisa have both recommended Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series to me, so I've put the audio version on reserve for my trip to Minnesota later this month (32 hours but also read by Davina Porter, so it promises to be good!). Tish and Lisa have warned me that I'll get hooked and will need to read all the books in the series once I've read the first one - good to know.
Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman. Another in his Alex Delaware mystery series and a good read, if you've liked his earlier books. This series works best if you read it in order, I think - especially since he doesn't do a lot of main character development in his later books - probably assuming his readers already know the characters' backstories and just want to get on with the mystery (unlike the old Nancy Drew books where the first chapter always explained in verbatim detail who Nancy was, along with lawyer father Carson Drew and housekeeper Hannah Gruen).
I'm now reading The Likeness by Tana French. I'm not into it far enough yet to recommend it, but I loved her first book, In the Woods, that I read last year.
Winter Study by Nevada Barr is set on Isle Royale in winter during the wolf/moose study when all of the tourists are off the island. [For those of you who haven't read Nevada Barr, all of her books are set in National Parks - this is the second one set at Isle Royale - the first at Isle Royale was A Superior Death.] Like her other books, it is a good read and creates a great "sense of place" that draws such a perfect picture of the Park that you feel you know it. Plus it makes you want to visit Isle Royale. Have any of you been there? It's been on my list of places I want to go for a long time - along with Ireland, the Grand Canyon, and an Alaskan cruise. Maybe next year.
The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith is one of his Isabel Dalhousie series set in Scotland. Isabel is a moral philosopher who has just been forced out as editor of "Review of Applied Ethics" by a London philosophy professor who schemed behind her back with the editorial board chairman. This is the first book I've read by him set in Scotland. I've read a few in his African Precious Ramotswe series (recommended to me by Debbie and Bonnie). They're good books too.
I listened to the McCall Smith book on CD while driving to and from St. Ignace in the UP this week. The narrator was Davina Porter who is a great reader. Tish and Lisa have both recommended Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series to me, so I've put the audio version on reserve for my trip to Minnesota later this month (32 hours but also read by Davina Porter, so it promises to be good!). Tish and Lisa have warned me that I'll get hooked and will need to read all the books in the series once I've read the first one - good to know.
Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman. Another in his Alex Delaware mystery series and a good read, if you've liked his earlier books. This series works best if you read it in order, I think - especially since he doesn't do a lot of main character development in his later books - probably assuming his readers already know the characters' backstories and just want to get on with the mystery (unlike the old Nancy Drew books where the first chapter always explained in verbatim detail who Nancy was, along with lawyer father Carson Drew and housekeeper Hannah Gruen).
I'm now reading The Likeness by Tana French. I'm not into it far enough yet to recommend it, but I loved her first book, In the Woods, that I read last year.
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