Pilgrim

Granted but teachers were left to roam the streets forming gangs and committing random acts of senseless education. I wish it would stop raining.

I once read a book called Maverick in Mauve about one of the Vanderbilt offspring and found their lifestyle very interesting - just getting on a plane one day and going someplace.

Kell, Jane, though I like the way her characters speak and I enjoyed reading her years ago, has always reminded me of soap operas. I found myself talking in very carefully phrased sentences.

I go to this site: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/ and look at their award winners or short list books for a given genre and it's been a very good way to get to some good ones

Lover Come Back

Now I'm plagued by a dead witch and beloved but irritating townspeople, one of whom may be a murderer.

I'm a constable in Scotland plagued by a difficult witch and beloved but irritating townspeople.

Love with the Proper Stranger

I am Sam

The Red Pony

It's been a while but just read Five Little Pigs and I still like Agatha Christie

I wish I could get that devoted - like the kids with Harry Potter and their vigil followed by the page turning weekends

I love Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan series - well developed characters.

The Kindle serves my daughter well in college unless she has to get a specific translation and goes for the cheap one - like the 1.99 version of Don Quixote. However, I'm still stuck on the Palm with its scrolling and backlighting - and if that ever goes out of the marketplace, I hope there's a good replacement. I'm having to read a real book now because it's not in e-book land and it feels kind of nice to hold a piece of tree again.

Long time ago here too but when I think about survival on the streets I have recollections of this.

I usually read e-books but when I'm not I'm usually discussing it and the bookmark has lines so I can take notes - sticky ones so that I can put two together back to back.

"No knowledge has come down to us of Joseph Knecht's orgins." However, this after a lengthy introduction and a foreward. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

It's been a while, but have read a few stories with Mr Quin and here's the link in wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Mr._Quin They really are different from her others - magical but ok.

Actually, in Exit Music, I'm starting to like him - thank goodness - I had all but given up on the organized folk - I had to put it down temporarily because something bothered me.

I agree with those who said Terry Pratchett ... also Jasper Fforde and Laura Lippman because she's a favorite who's alive - now if ghosts are there, that opens up another window of opportunity.

I like him - read Resurrection Men about a year ago and am reading Exit Music - Don't like the mob guy as a character - Cafferty - I'm fine until mob people are in books - and he's a main character so I'm fine a bit of the time. Cops and crime solving is good. And I like Shiv and Rebus. Maybe this book will change my feelings. I was reading The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow and got most of the way through but mob tactics are so - I don't know - cold, simple and organized - so character development is set aside somewhat.

I loved the Lord Peter Wimsey series on TV! Especially seeing Emma Thompson's mom as a young woman.

I came here because Laura Lippman has run out of books for now and Pendergast seems interesting but a bit gothic - a bit like X-files? I did like X-files but mostly the alien conspiracy. Poppy and all the others who like Christie, I do too - especially Marple. She got me started on mysteries. - Sherlock Holmes is good but the show was so good with Jeremy Brett that for once the stories didn't match the books. In Christie's case even though the Poirot shows and movies like MotOExpress were wonderful, the books were better for me. Actually Joan Hickson shows did capture Miss Marple well.

"Tess, do you know who the Baltimore Four were? No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman