This is the 1st in a series of British police procedurals. Also reading The Steppenwolf. And I just requested the 1st 3 Travis McGees. I read all of them back in the 70's. That was a good decade. I wish I were there now.

What a fun time!

On the recommendation of Fadedrose from an earlier thread.

Very entertaining so far. I am right where Metzger meets the dog - very funny.

by Greg Bear

so far vary much living up to all the praise

Josephine Tey

by Jo Walton

I'm not quite half-way through, and so far completely fascinated. There are so many elements woven together: coming of age, dysfunctional family, teenage girl brutality, loss, family, identity, magic, legend, science, and, most of all, literature.

The protagonist is a teenage girl who has survived a tragedy. So far, we don't know the details. She deals with her loss, and her change in circumstances, by withdrawing into books. She keeps a journal, and that's how we follow her story. She is constantly dropping comments about what she's reading that week, and what she thinks about it; if she were posting to the weekly thread here, she'd have at least 8 titles a week to talk about.

She's a lover of sci-fi and fantasy, which isn't surprising. She also, though, reads poetry and philosophy. I love seeing so many of my favorites through her eyes, and wondering if I would like the books she talks about that I HAVEN'T read.

I also love that I don't know where the story is going, or where it has come from. That's novel for me, pun intended. I can usually predict the outcome of a story within the first couple of chapters; even great stories that I enjoy reading don't have too many surprises.

This one is still a mystery.