Top Ten Tuesday

toptentuesdayThis week’s Top Ten Tuesday meme is to list the top books on my Spring TBR list. I can do that. There are a lot of books I’ve read about that I’m eager to read but we all know it may be a long while before I get to any of them.

Anyway, here’s my list:

  • Murder In Murray Hill by Victoria Thompson. I think last year’s installment of this series made readers very happy with the ending so needless to I’m very  excited to see what new adventures are in store for Sarah and Frank.
  • Bark by Lorrie Moore. I know some of you have highly recommended this author.
  • Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli. A story about a translator, Harlem and Lorca.
  • Wonderland by Stacy D’Erasmo. A story about the life about a woman rock star.
  • All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu. I thought his first book was a wonderful account of the immigrant experience. Looking forward to this one.
  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Sounds like a fascinating historical novel.
  • Singapore Noir edited by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan. I’ve been reading a lot of Scandinavian noir and I think it’s about time to travel East and see what I’m missing.
  • Baudelaire’s Revenge by Bob Van Laerhoven. A superb mystery that illuminates the shadow life of one of the greatest names in poetry. I must read this.
  • Frog Music by Emma Donoghue. I’ve only read her novel Slammerkin, which I found fascinating, so I hope this one will be just as interesting.
  • Hyde by Daniel Levine. It’s time for Mr. Hyde to tell his side of the story. Could be fun.

Alright, so what books are you guys looking forward to this Spring?

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This & That

I hope everyone had a great weekend. It was too short though wasn’t it? I didn’t get a lot of reading done although I did indulge in a very long nap one day and that was so good. I haven’t made it to yoga in a couple of months as the scheduled changed a bit so a nap is a good way to get in my restorative time.

On to the books though. I was getting a little bit frustrated with my current mysteries that I thought the only thing to do was start a new book. A mystery that I really wanted to read and I picked up The Reckoning by Jane Casey which is the second book in the Maeve Kerrigan series. I read the first one last year and really liked the main character so all my other books are set aside in favor of this one.

Also I forgot to mention that I appreciated all the feedback you guys had on audiobooks. I am still giving my audiobook a go and am up to chapter nine. I still get distracted but I’m hanging in there. It’s better than watching some of the stuff that’s on t.v. at the gym that’s for sure.

Alright there’s still a little bit of time before it’s time to go to sleep so I’m going back to my book.

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A Mystery

Hey friends, sorry I’ve been a bit M.I.A. this week but I don’t know if it’s a touch of spring fever or what, but I’ve just not been much in the mood to blog and or spend time at the computer. I think it must be that I’m still adjusting to Daylight Savings Time.. Yea, that’s my story and I’m sticking with it.

Anyway, I’m so ready for the weekend. I have got to catch up on my reading, mainly a mystery I’ve just started. Actually, I have two going on. I typically don’t like to read two mysteries at the same time but I had started one last week and this week I realized I needed to also get going on the mystery for my upcoming book group. So, that’s how I ended up with two mysteries on my nightstand.

The first one is The Deliverance of Evil by Roberto Costatini. The main character Commissario Michele Balistreri is introduced as a young man in Rome who really seems more interested in drinking and womanizing than he is in solving crime. As the story opens in Italy in 1982, the country is joyous after winning the World Cup and the disappearance of a young woman is not something Balistreri is overly concerned with.

This book is a big one (which is counting towards my Chunkster Reading challenge) but it’s going by fairly quickly. I have to say though it’s a bit hard to read about this Commissario because he’s not likeable at all. Not that all the detectives I read about are perfect but Balistreri really doesn’t seem to care about solving crime at all. The story will move on to the present time so I wonder (and hope) that his character will mature.

The other mystery is Ghostman by Roger Hobbs. This sounds more like a thriller and at just a few pages in, it’s already started with a lot of action. A casino robbery in Atlantic City has gone awry and resulted in the death of several people with only one of the perpetrators alive and running with the money.

Now enters a fixer who lives off the grid and no one seems to really know but someone has called him in and he’s on his way to recover the millions that are now missing. This is not my typical kind of mystery read but so far it’s entertaining.

Anyway, that’s about it. I hope you have a wonderful weekend and I’m off to figure out whodunit!

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