Recent Reading
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Awesome book! Awesome writing! I hadn't really paid much attention to this book because it didn't seem like my kind of thing, but it was recommended to me by a good friend so I tried it. You don't have to care about racing or horses (though everyone cares about horses, don't they). It's good.
And a bunch of entertaining but more or less forgettable mysteries:
The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria by Laura Joh Rowland
Okay, this one's good and I'd recommend the whole series. They take place in Japan in the seventeenth century.
Murder of a Snake in the Grass and
Murder of a Sleeping Beauty by Denise Swanson
These are about a school psychologist who lives in one of those small towns where people are always dying under suspicious circumstances. The world of school and kids is fun and interesting.
Murder in Hell's Kitchen by Lee Harris
I admit, I had to look at the back cover blurb to remember what this one was about, but it was decently written. Plus, I liked the part where she went to Omaha.
Equivocal Death by Amy Gutman
If you're young and beautiful, bad things may happen to you, but everything will be all right in the end, particularly (and of course, completely surprisingly, as one cannot be crass) financially.