Since the last report I have been reading The Black House by Peter May. The Black House was an amazing story. It was both tragic and beautiful. The story was entirely captivating. By the end it seemed like I knew each of the main characters. I purchased the next one in the Lewis trilogy—The Lewis Man but was later notified that it was not available from where I ordered it. I will somehow buy it or order it from the library. Mrs. Enthusiast was as enamored by The Black House as I was.

Thank you, scarletwoman, for discovering the Peter May books for us.

On the recommendation of a family member I'm reading The Girl With a Clock For a Heart by Peter Swanson. I'm only a few pages in.

Mrs. Enthusiast thoroughly enjoyed Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben. After reading Deal Breaker she read The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig which she also enjoyed. Now she is reading Ian Rankin's Hide & Seek. I believe we are both going to like the John Rebus series.

Thanks for bringing up The Sea Runners, it looks very interesting! I'm going to add it to my "to-read" list. I'll take a look at Ivan Doig's other titles, too.

Have a lovely week!

I have Sea Runners on my list. Love all the Ivan Doig books.

If I like Sea Runners, I'll probably order some of his other books.

to Montana from Georgia, no less, and will probably be going out to visit this summer! Hope to hear that you love Ivan Doig, too. I have shared his books with folks all over and every one that I've recommended has received a big thumbs up!

I lived in the San Juan Islands for a year, which are off the northwest coast of Washington state, and I lived in Alaska for 6 years. While I didn't live in the Sitka area, I did a lot of reading about all parts of Alaska, as well as the history of the times when it was 'owned' by Russia.

I'm hoping The Sea Runners makes it to my library sometime this week.

I finished Sweet Tooth last night and will post my thoughts on it separately for hermetic. As for the Fossum book I am unfamiliar with her and her work but it's the first Scandinavian author I've see in the list of books I can download from my library, and our fiction community keeps reading mysteries from the far north. The farthest north my reading has taken me has been the Shetlands and Alaska in Michael Charbon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union which is a strange but good read in itself.

I bought a Kindle Fire last month and have been limiting my reading to free stuff. It will take a lot of that to pay for this thing. The ebooks available from my library are rather limited and I wonder who selected them.

I listened to Ian Rankin's Fleshmarket Alley on CD and that was great. Read by a gentleman with a rich, Scottish brogue.

Now I'm reading The Naming of the Dead. I love how it's about the G8 Summit back in 2005. I watched several YouTubes back then and Rankin's descriptions are spot on. I also love how there's so many musical references, stuff I'm so familiar with. I do hope my library can get more of this series from the big library not too far away. I keep forgetting to ask about that.

I had forgotten about Michael Chabon. I enjoyed his earlier work and now I see that there are 3 newer books to seek out.

I hadn't thought about this before but it seems a shame that these threads disappear after a week. I understand the necessity, otherwise this would become unwieldy. Just have to remember to take notes. I'm so glad TexasPro did a separate post for Sweet Tooth, otherwise I'd have missed it.

The threads don't disappear for me. I use them for reference again and again.

This isn't one of King's better efforts; the best part of it is the detailing of being in a start-up rock band, back in the mid-60's. The spooky stuff ain't that spooky (more than you ever wanted to know about electricity), and there's way too much darkness for the slender story to effectively sustain. Can't win 'em all.

It was alright but I didn't get very excited about it.

"The Secret Place". I am in awe of the way she can put in lots of everyday details.

Reading it for my book club -

If you read "Gilead" or "Home" - Lila was the preacher's younger wife. Excellent read.

By Sarah Addison Allen

Abraham Lincoln and the Church of Latter Day Saints. Who knew? Berry is always a fun roller-coaster, sideways view of history.

Also discovered to my chagrin when putting my name on the list at the library for the latest Alex Berenson John Wells thriller _Twelve Days_ that I somehow managed to miss last years release, _The Counterfeit Agent_. I zipped through several of the earlier ones in January, so I guess I missed the March release.

Got it, and it's next on the stack.

Audio books, I've been listening to the Gentlemen Bastards fantasy series by Scott Lynch.