Pilgrim

Tess Monaghan

This summer someone borrowed the computer that had my Palm data on it and I was getting dangerously close to running out of stored books. I was beginning to read from the Kindle which isn't a good sedative. Well, I decided to embark on Kid's World of Warcrack which is the furthest one will ever get from a sedative. Fortunately, I didn't join any groups except on an ad hoc basis and got sick of it. Or maybe it was the fact that my head wouldn't stop spinning. I didn't read much above me but does the Sony scroll and is it back-lighted and can you prop it against a travel clock?

They were in one of the "i" states when Zeke told Isaac he had to ride in the trunk for a little while. By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman

Well, I loved Tale of Two Cities and from there, though I haven't read enough to be a fair judge, I guess Jane Eyre and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Too bad Gentlemen and Players isn't a classic yet. I completely forgot about Oscar Wilde. I can't pick off hand. Just him.

Michael Connelly's character in his series was named after the artist Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch and I had a friend named April Schauer.

Jimmy Carter's Palestine Peace Not Apartheid made a bit of a flap - if your friend is interested in flap. Though it's hard to talk about peace in the Holy Land without a flap of some sort.

When I search for a book, it should seem like it's going to be a good mystery - I start with the mystery/crime awards and nominees or some series that has come to my attention through word of mouth - if it's a series I try to start at the first and hope for a good run - unless the crime has to do with children or young women - I have a daughter - then I skip those. The ultimate good mystery isn't so riveting that it keeps me awake (until the end). I have to start another about 3/4 of the way through so that I can continue to use The Novel as a sedative - this also keeps me from being too lost and sad (as Echo's boyfriend) at the end of the other book.

Glad this thread is here. Loved this book. As you all have said, the chess game, the twist(s) and the subtle back and forth from character to character where one has to wait for the clues to the identify the speaker. I thought it was a commuter school (though ritzy) because Pinchbeck didn't mention dorms (to my knowledge) and talked about their arriving in cars. I'm so glad I had no clue what the ending was. I have never wanted to read a book over (Except A Tale of Two Cities) but this deserves closer observation.

There's a novel thought - no pun intended.

You do get around - bookwise, that is. I've come across your knowledge before - it may have been mystery-related then too.

I love the Chimneys books and I think there's only one more (with the rich girl) - might be wrong - there's a French detective - LeFarge or something - sounding kind of like a Dickens character, there - that's where I had to find out what the Surete was - I think - I could be wrong. Ah, ~V~, I feel so free now to babble on about things I might totally have wrong because of time and lost cells of the brain (as M. Poirot might say).

It's taken me a while to replace Agatha Christie on the list of top three favorites but this is a great mystery writer. I've only read about 4 of the Tess Monaghan series but they're just very good. The character development is better than Agatha (but then Agatha's always in it for the mystery and the story, in my opinion, with the exception of her main characters). If you can handle a Baltimore, Maryland setting, for the most part, the supporting cast and the mystery/twist/etc., are superb. I would, however, recommend starting from the beginning, Baltimore Blues, to get the feel of this supporting cast.

I love Agatha and it's been a while but this is one of the better ones assuming it's the one with the train schedule. I have a bad memory which means that I'll probably be able to reread her when I can't find any more good mystery writers to discover and won't know the "who-done-it".

I had trouble finding a good audio book to listen to at work when I'm doing repetitive things because sometimes the work would take me away from the book and I'd lose the story - very bad for Pratchett and Fforde where every word is critical, in my opinion. However, I discovered All Creatures Great and Small is perfect. Just a nice bunch of stories that knock around in your head and don't require a lot of thought. Interesting.

I'll probably start this next time I pull myself away from mysteries. My daughter had to read Bulfinch's Mythology for school and I wish I had the determination to get through it. I have read that he uses mythology a good deal - never got beyond the major mythological heros. He's probably using it now in Neverwhere and I wouldn't know it if I tripped over it.

I envy people who don't get carsick reading. I usually read in bed and I'd probably not get to sleep otherwise.

Well, I've started this (somewhere in chapter 4). I've been wanting to read American Gods because of all the awards (superficial, but some good books get awards). So far, it's interesting and clever.

Well, the Kindle has landed and though it doesn't replace the Palm. It's not backlit, as Imogen says. and doesn't appear to scroll. Also, if I were to prop it against something to read in bed, it would be pressing against the page turner and the rapid fire page flipping would be faster than I could read. I like the feel and the back has a non slip texture that I like because it doesn't fall off the lap if you set it down. I'm all out of bookshelf space so digital books are my present and future. I'll probably trade it to my daughter who has a newer TX Palm - mine's getting old and the duct tape on the cover is embarrassing in public. After she's done with college and doesn't need it for papers, I'll probably take it back when my eyes need the variable font sizes. It loads and unloads documents, .doc, txt, etc., so it's perfect for school. I haven't discovered all its functions so I'll be back when I come up with more. Oh, and I like the screen savers (I guess time out pictures), they're beautiful - like the Barnes & Noble bags - but better.

Jane Eyre is one that I liked very much but it was so long ago that I don't remember the ending not having her and Mr Rochester get together - too many film versions out there.

I have only read The Well of Lost Plots because it got a "something something Wodehouse something" award and I loved it. The librarian where I work saved me the CD's of The Eyre Affair and I've started listening to it. Read that he had trouble getting it published at first. It's a fun test of what one knows about literature and I sometimes miss the joke.

Icecream, when I do read non-virtual books, like for a discussion that doesn't have an ebook, I am always losing them and sometimes end up having to buy another. So I come across them under the bed, in the clothes basket, etc. I converted a basement room with bookshelves that are full. However, when I found out that the Palm can store books and I can carry that with me easily, it solved the problem. It's one thing, like a wallet and a cell phone, that stays with me. Now if Amazon would get off their duff and make some more Kindles, it would be even more simple to get them.

When my daughter was about 4 or 5, I bought her "Sailor Dog" (a golden book) and it was an instant flashback to sometime way back that I'd completely forgotten. The pictures were eerily familiar.

If you haven't left yet or plan to travel again. Tale of Two Cities, Anything by Michael Connolly (Crime), Rebecca by Du Maurier, The Annasi Boys by Neil Gaiman. There's a variety there so you can put it down if you aren't compelled to go on.