Where Is Your Bookmark? (06/28/2016)

I forget sometimes that it takes me longer to read a nonfiction book. Particularly the book I had been reading, as I stopped to take notes periodically or reread a passage. With that book behind me, I can give my full attention to The Magician's Lie by Greer Macallister, which I featured last week here on my blog. Today I thought I would share a taste of the book I hope to start on next, a crime fiction novel by Kate Horsley called The American Girl.

Goodreads Summary:  

From a bright new talent comes a riveting psychological thriller about an American exchange student in France involved in a suspicious accident, and the journalist determined to break the story and uncover the dark secrets a small town is hiding.

Every Tuesday Diane from Bibliophile By the Sea 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. It is also where I share my first impressions about the book I am sharing.

Video Diary: Session 7

[Quinn, a girl of seventeen, sits on the edge of a hospital bed wearing a white gown. As she talks, her bare legs kick the frame of the bed and monitors beep softly in the background.]  

You ever have one of those Magic 8-Balls as a kid? Yeah, pretty retro, I know. I remember asking mine if Adam Epstein was planning on taking me to the senior prom. It said, Don't count on it, so I sat on my little pink bed with the daisy-pattern comforter and shook it again and again until I got the answer I wanted. 

Um, my mind keeps circling. Back to that Magic 8-Ball. See, if I can remember those details--my room, the pattern on my comforter--then why can't I remember all the other things that are so much more important? The therapist who gave me this camera told me to keep a diary. He gave me some exercises and helpful advice too: "the mind is a mysterious place" kind of thing. But in the end, I guess, he found it just as frustrating trying to get inside my head as I do. Everyone seems to.

Every Tuesday, Jenn from Books And A Beat hosts Teaser Tuesdays at which time participants grab their current read, open to a random page, and share two (2) "teaser" sentences from that page while avoiding any spoilers.

Teaser from page 44 of The American Girl:

The only things taken were my notes on the case, though actually, it was that choice that worried me. Why would anyone break into a car, not to steal it, not even to take the GPS--still sitting brazenly on the dash--but to take my lousy papers?

What do you think? Would you keep reading?  

Just reading the bits I did of this one have pulled me in. I ended up reading the first chapter. It was hard to pull away. The book is told from the perspective of Quinn, an American exchange student in France, through video and blog entries as well as Molly Swift, a Boston journalist. At least from what I can tell so far. I can't wait to read this one!

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

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely ladies at Broke and Bookish.

This week's  Top Ten Tuesday is a Freebie, and I thought it would be fun to ask my husband to share his list of favorite books with you. I had my doubts he would actually take me seriously, but the next thing I knew, he handed me the list.

1. The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams

2. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

3. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

5. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

6. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

7. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark

8. Homicide by David Simon

9. Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden

10. Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

I have only read four of the books on his list (Pride and Prejudice, Black Hawk Down, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and Catch-22), all of which I agree are pretty awesome. Sue Grafton almost made his list, but was bumped off at the last minute. She's one of our shared favorite authors.

What about you? Have you read any of his favorites?

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