What I'm Reading

I thought this would be a good place to not only share information about what new titles -- in various media-- are arriving at the library, but to let you know what members of the staff are reading. Since I'm always the one with these nifty ideas that create more work for other people, I thought I would lead off and tell you what I'm currently reading, what I read recently, and what I plan on reading. I'm on page 167 of Tess Gerritsen's new book, "The Bone Garden". It shifts scenes from the present day--where Julie Hamill discovering a skeleton in her rural Massachusett's garden--to Boston in the 1830s when the West End Reaper is killing young women and Oliver Wendell Holmes (Senior) is a medical students involved with one of the protagonists. So far, it's compelling but a little on the depressing side (because it shows the underbelly of human nature). Gerritsen's writing reminds me of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs ( I just read "Bones to Ashes" (good) her character, Temperance Brennan is what the television series "Bones" is based on). My previous book was "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman. Pullman's trilogy, "The Dark Materials" is being made into movies, with the first book in the series,"The Golden Compass, coming out soon -- October or November. My next book is Elizabeth Peter's new Amelia Peabody book, The Mummy Case". If you haven't discovered this series of mystery/adventure tales set in Egypt prior to World War I, you're in for a treat. Amelia Peabody is an amatuer archeologist who meets the strikingly handsome Radcliffe Emerson; they hate each other; they love each other; they marry; have a child who is a prodigy in all things Egpytian; He grows up; marries; has children. As you can see, this is a long series. All the books have a great deal of humor provided by Amelia's diary entries -- which reveal a lusty, conniving matriarch. Every book in this series, and there are many, are fun and the Egyptian history is spot on because, the author herself is an Egyptologist when she isn't writing novels. I'll see if I can get someone else on staff to reveal what they are reading. Ciao!