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What Are You Reading? Monday 04Jan10

January4

What are you reading Mondays is hosted by J. Kaye’s Book Blog

It’s been a slow couple of weeks reading-wise; not quite sure why. Over the past two weeks I managed to finish reading:

1. Fellowship of Fear (A Gideon Oliver Mystery)
by Aaron Elkins
Fellowship of Fear,Aaron Elkins

Before Kathy Reichs’ Tempe Brennan and television shows like Bones, there was Aaaron Elkins’ Gideon Oliver, physical anthropology professor.

The Fellowship of Fear is the first of Gideon’s adventures (currently sixteen books). Published in 1982, it draws its tension from the cold war between Russia and the U.S.

Here’s my review.

P.S. I love the lists at Fantastic Fiction and the public library that allow me to read any series in order. YAY for both.

2. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
Sweetness at the bottom of the pie,Alan Bradley,Flavia de Luce,Canadian author
Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie,
Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?

The Art of Cookery, William King

I borrowed this from the library as well, although I waited several months after I placed a hold on it.

The debut novel for Canadian author Alan Bradley, Sweetness was a smash hit last year. Imagine my surprise to find it’s a murder mystery – almost a “cozy” – and quite good enough to warrant its own review.

P.S. If you click through the affiliate links in the book titles, you may notice a different cover. I like to see the cover that’s on the copy I read – and it’s usually different than Amazon.com because they display the American release, and I read the Canadian.
P.P.S. Canadian readers interested in any of these titles can click through at the bottom of this post. Or, even better, buy from an independent book seller.

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And, yes, they are all affiliate links which means that I earn a small amount if you purchase after you’ve clicked through from this post.)


Links for Canadian readers

Fellowship Of Fear

The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie


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2 Comments to

“What Are You Reading? Monday 04Jan10”

  1. On January 5th, 2010 at 6:14 pm J. Kaye Says:

    Yeah for your library. Ours is great, but sometimes they don’t get an entire series. They’ll get like book one and three.

  2. On January 5th, 2010 at 9:31 pm admin Says:

    Our library doesn’t always have them either. I use the web and ransack the library system province-wide. Inter-library loans are wonderful.

 
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