Where Is Your Bookmark? (09/23/2014)

Autumn is here at last! It was a beautiful weekend. I opened all the windows in the house, and let the breeze carry through the rooms. It is nice to finally be out of the triple digit heat. Now we get to enjoy mid-to-high 90's weather for the next couple days.  Summer's last ditch effort to hang on?

I took advantage of Aarti's two week event, A More Diverse Universe, to get in some extra reading.  I reviewed a couple of children's books, When Gorilla Goes Walking by Nikki Grimes and Shane Evans and Round Is a Mooncake by Roseanne Thong and Grace Lin, to start off the event, and have since also read a young adult fairy tale re-telling of Cinderella called Ash by Malinda Lo, a fiction novel about a Pakistani woman living in New York City during the 9/11 attack called Saffron Dreams by Shaila Abdullah, and a thriller, Confessions, by Japanese crime fiction author Kanae Minato (review will post tomorrow).  It just so happened that one of my From the Archives reviews met the requirements of being a book by an author of color as well: A Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar.

I am now back to my regularly scheduled reading, having finished a new one by Heather Graham called The Betrayed for an upcoming tour. It's the fourteenth book in her Krewe Hunter series, a paranormal cozy mystery romance series featuring ghosts.  This one is set in Sleepy Hollow in New York, drawing on the area's history.

My current read has taken me to the Caribbean where I have joined a reporter for a look into an old crime in which two boys brutally killed their parents.  Murder and mayhem ensue in A Penny for the Hangman by Tom Savage.

What are you reading at the moment?  Is it something you would recommend?

Oh!  Read-a-longs are hit and miss with me, but when I saw Samantha  from Booked on a Feeling mention the Fingersmith Read-A-Long hosted by the Literate Housewife scheduled for next month, I decided to take the plunge.  I already have a copy of the book, so what's to stop me?  Not to mention I have wanted to read something by Sarah Waters for forever and a day.  It's about time, don't you think?  And what better month to do that than in October? Have you read it?  Do you want to?





Each Tuesday during the month of October the Literate Housewife will be hosting a Fingersmith discussion (my own posts will likely go up Wednesdays):

October 7: Chapters 1-5
October 14: Chapters 6-10
October 21: Chapters 11-14
October 28: Chapters 15-17

Every Tuesday Diane from Bibliophile By the Sea hosts 

First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros, where  

participants share the first paragraph (or a few) of a 

book they are reading or thinking about reading soon.

I thought I would share the opening of A Penny for the Hangman by Tom Savage:

Rodney Harper's Diary

May 26, 1958 

This is a day unlike any other day, ever, in the history of the world. It is my birthday, and it is my new beginning. I, Rodney Lawson Harper, am 15 years old old today, and I have a wonderful plan. I must write it down. The ideas are arriving so thick and fast, my mind is so feverish with them that it is all my hand can do to keep up with my head. But my hand will prevail. As on a chessboard before a match, I'll set the pieces out in order, row on row.  Everything will be perfect.

 Would you continue reading?

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