Looking Forward ~ Looking Back This Week In Books

Short list this week.
Besides the usual hustle and bustle we went on an emergency mini-vacation to Great Wolf Lodge, a indoor water park that also allows kids to run around like maniacs pretending they're Harry Potter.

On this short trip I finally got the opportunity to use my Kindle. And what can I say, I love it. Being able to download a book in the car is a marvelous thing. And the reading experience is as good as they say. I found myself more than once raising a hand to flip the page.

Now to control my book-buying impulses.


Sunday Salon

Finished:

	I really enjoyed The Island. Though it is one of Gary Paulsen's less action-oriented books, there were some marvelously funny parts, and the wordsmanship was excellent.
	The River is a more typical Paulsen read than The Island. It has lots of action and I should mention, features Brian of The Hatchet as he goes back into the wilderness yet again. This time to help some government people try to figure out what psychological changes occurred which helped Brian to survive. Things don't turn out anything like planned.
	Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians is a cute book that ought to be popular with those who like tongue-in-cheek snarky humor. (Pam raises her hand) Brandon Sanderson wrote this scifi-ish book for younger readers. He's got the main character telling the story in a not-so-direct fashion, interspersed with asides and diversions. This is gonna be a love-it or hate-it kind of selection.

Currently Reading:

	Mistborn. This one's been on my TDAR forever, probably because our local library doesn't carry the series. One of the reasons I splurged and purchased the Kindle. With the budget crises Interlibrary loans are now $3 bucks. Purchasing it on the Kindle was $6. I figure it's worth 3-dollars not to put the librarians through all the hassle.
	I've been waiting eagerly for Conspiracy of Kings, the latest installment in The Queen's Thief series. Megan W. Turner is a fantastic writer with great insight into motivation and court politics.
	Not quite done with Trouble River. The story is about Dewey and Grandma who have been left alone on the family's small prairie farm while mom and dad are away to a distant town to have the new baby. While they are gone, the area is attacked by Indians. Without much time to contemplate what to do, Dewey puts his Granny on a raft he just finished. .

Incoming and Outgoing:

We are NOT finishing this one. Way too much time placing characters in the setting without enough action. There could have been action at the beginning, but instead the author went with describing it in the past tense, and then only obliquely.

Pam
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