Last night my Mystery Book group met to discuss The Last Policeman by Ben Winters. I thought this was a great book for discussion because not only did we talk about the mystery aspects (red herrings, setting, etc.) but what would we do if faced with knowing that an asteroid was coming straight to our planet in a few months.

Would we go bucket-list and forget about duties and just enjoy every minute of life we had left? Or would we continue with our daily work routines because that at least was something normal to hang on to and keep some sanity in a world that was going a bit crazy? I of course said I would go off traveling but then someone mentioned what if no planes were flying or ships sailing. Well, then I’d have a problem.

Anyway, we had a very lively discussion and I’ll try to write up more about the book in another post soon because if you haven’t read it, you gotta try it.

We also selected books for the next few months and we’ll be reading Ghost Medicine by Aimee and David Thurlo, The Gone Dead Train by Lisa Turner and Some Dead Genius by Lenny Kleinfeld. I haven’t read anything by these authors so I’m excited about these book choices.

Speaking of mysteries, did you see that the Ngaio Marsh Award Longlist is out? Have you read any of these? I have not but I’ll be adding some to my TBR list.

Ok, off to finish another mystery I have in progress that is due back at the library tomorrow. I see a fine in my future.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We celebrated Valentine’s day with lunch at a new place, a visit to the museum and time at the bookstore. My kind of day.

It has been a while since we’ve gone to see an art exhibit but this one made up for it. The Blanton Museum of Art had a collection on display from the Judy and Charles Tate collection of Latin American Art, La Linea Continua. When I first read about this I think my mind just zeroed in on Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera so I knew I had to go but little did I realize there were only two works on display by them.

Don’t worry, I was upset. In fact I was excited to discover art works I hadn’t seen before. I saw paintings by artists from Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina and other Latin American countries. One of my favorite paintings was this one, Ley Marcial by Antonio Berni. I loved this painting because of the bold colors and the fact that the artist even incorporated mixed media in the painting. For example, for the band on the hat he used the metal from tap shoes.

We also visited the museum shop and I was hoping they would have nice postcards from the paintings we saw and they did have a couple but not my favorite ones. Anyway, still a lot of fun.

Finally we went to Barnes & Noble to relax a bit and as I had a coupon I couldn’t let that go to waste so I bought The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon. I know so many of you have enjoyed it so I’m looking forward to reading this.

But before I start that book I really need to finish some others in progress and not to mention that I’m only half way through The Last Policeman and I need to finish that soon. Maybe if I hadn’t taken a two hour nap today I would have been able to read more. Oh but that felt good. So how was your weekend?