Andrew Mayne's Latest

Andrew Mayne has become one of my favorite authors...until I read his current book "Angel Killer".  I know that he has vast experience in doing magic tricks and has written definitive books for magicians, but some how his being a beautiful woman magician turned FBI agent just does not click.  This was not a book that I could not put down nor did it have moments where I held my breath.  There were interesting explanations for some illusions.  All in all, was an interesting book, but not up to what I expected from Mr. Mayne.  I do love his site Weirdthings.com.  People send in weird news stories. 

The Study Series

Wow!  My daughter recommended the study series books by Maria V. Snyder.   Since she is usually right about what I like, I bought the bundled set.  I absolutely love them.  I am on the last book.  This is one series that I have not gotten tired of.  With some authors, it seems that their books get predictable after you have read a few of them.  Did not find it so with this author.  I hope to read other books by her.

Personal Life

I have always preferred that bloggers leave as much of their personal lives as possible out of their blogs if it had a particular theme.  Now I see that is pretty hard to do.  It seems that what we experience in life affects what we read.  What started me thinking in this direction was reading "Murder Takes A Bow" by Liz Marvin. It was a fairly good mystery but was so much about diabetes-the guilt of having it, the hereditary factors, what to eat, how to cook, symptoms.  Enough, already!  I would have much preferred the book if it had been a little more subtle.  However, I did read it all and was disappointed with the ending.  Bummer!

Back to personal lives.  I think one of the reasons I so like "The Hunger Games" was that I could relate to the poverty and finding things in the woods for food.  I just finished the second book in that series - "Catching Fire".  Loved it and could not put it down or get it out of my mind, even if the end left me hanging.  I will definitely read the third one. 

Since, in two days, I will start selling for two weeks, I will try to finish some of the books I have started because there is very little time for reading during that period, plus I don't want to get into a really good book and read half the night.  Oh, yes, I have been known to do that.

Yes, I am going to pay more attention to why certain books catch and hold my interest.  That does not include what I read because there is nothing else around to read.  Uh, that leads to another train of thought to pick up later.