The first week of the new year was a bit more dramatic than I would have liked. I had one stray cat become quite ill. He’d been hanging around the neighborhood and showed up on the top of my car drooling and foaming at the mouth. Not a good sign so I rushed him to my vet. Fortunately he was chipped and reunited with his owners and seems to be on the mend. I also had one of my favorite semi feral “working” cats disappear for a week – due to fireworks, I think. He showed up on Friday. What this meant though is that I didn’t get quite the reading time I was hoping for.
I did finish two books, both disappointing for this reader. Zero, Repeat, Forever is a young adult alien invasion book and it started out well enough. Unfortunately I felt that both the world building and the main character, Raven, needed fleshing out. The second book was an adult thriller, The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz. I definitely enjoyed parts of it and the premise is good – an FBI agent has a husband who commits suicide but she refuses to believe it. Digging further she discovers an increase in suicides overall and she is threatened by an unknown entity. Stop investigating or horrible things will happen to your son. My main problem with the book is that I had difficulty believing that a mother would put her son at risk just to prove her husband didn’t commit suicide. It also had pacing problems, exciting in parts, dragging in others. For a change I feel no desire to pick up the sequel. It was well reviewed so the problem may just be with this reader.
On the plus side I started and am almost done with two shorter books, Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire and Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks. Dear Fahrenheit was bound to appeal to me since it is about a librarian reviewing books she adored along with a little library humor. I loved listening to her speak about books she loved, books she had outgrown and the book lists at the end were absolute catnip. Annie, the author, is younger than I am but I still enjoyed hearing about how she related to books and she made me reminisce about my own book loves.
I am actually rather shocked by Every Heart a Doorway. I am absolutely loving it. I’ve tried Seanan McGuire before and she just never jelled with me. I absolutely love Every Heart though. I’m intrigued by the various worlds these kids inhabited, the way the worlds worked and, of course, how these kids adapt once they return. I’m actually reading this one slowly until the next companion book comes in from my library.
So that was my reading week, how was yours?
Every Heart – not everyone’s cup of tea but def. for fantasy fans. – Delicious!
Everyone should find something to love in Fahrenheit 451
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