I said I wasn’t going to put together a list for the Summer Mystery challenge but I will list some of the books I’m considering. Here are some new-to-me authors who I’ve been meaning to read for the longest time.

• To Shield the Queen by Fiona Buckley
• The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri
• Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell
• The Strange Files of Fremont Jones by Dianne Day
• What Angels Fear by C.S. Harris
• Birdman by Mo Hayder
• What’s a Girl Gotta Do by Sparkle Hayter
• I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason by Susan Kandel
• This Dame for Hire by Sandra Scoppettone
• The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
• The Blind Man of Seville by Robert Wilson
• Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong

Those are just some of the titles that I think would be fun to read. I like having the freedom to read at whim so that’s why I’m not chosing a stack ahead of time. Watch, none of these will be the ones that I end up reading. Anyway, I’ll be sure to let you know which books I’m chose as I go along.

Oh and if you’ve read any of these and can recommend them please do so!

I have finished book two of my Once Upon a Time Challenge, Artemis Fowl, so three more to go. Yikes. Artemis Fowl was had it’s moments but I wasn’t overly thrilled with it. I hope my next book in the challenge will be more to my taste.

In other challenge news, I finally started reading a chunkster. I chose The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea. I’m enjoying this book so much. I feel like I could be sitting in my grandmother’s kitchen while she made hot chocolate and was recounting this story to me. I haven’t read anything set in Latin America in a long time and it’s just so nice to visit again.

As far as Don Quixote, well, let’s just say my plan to read about 50 pages a week hasn’t gotten off to a very good start. I’m only at page 45 but what I’ve read so far I’ve liked. I plan to continue just at a slow pace obviously.

I’m also reading another Inspector Banks novel, Innocent Graves, which is the eighth book in the series. I still have a ways to go before I catch up as there are 16 books in the series.

I’m off to read some more before going to sleep. Oh but which book do I read this evening? Such difficult decisions. Heh.