I want to get this posted before I completely forget what I read while on vacation in April (and can someone explained what happened to the month of May?). 


The Lovely Bones is a book club book from before I joined the group (call it catch-up).  It’s the delightful story of angels and a serial killer (or at least as delightful as possible).  I always like connections between books:  the narration of this book by an angel, which results in a perspective similar to the The Book Thief, where the narration was by Death. 


Asta in the Wings was April’s book club book, it  was well written and good for a change of pace.  A strange story of two kids that escape from their certifiably crazy mother.  What makes it good is that the kids don’t understand that Mom is a lunatic, and that they were essentially prisoners.  And who, in hindsight (except for me who has the most wonderful mom) doesn’t think this sometimes?


Daemon is a recent science fiction release, set in the present day.  You know its science fiction because not once does anyone get a blue screen of death on their PC.  It’s the story of a wealthy game developer, who sets havoc in motion when he dies using automated game like programs.  The course of the game is set by what gets reported in the news (and on the web). Great concept and a real page turner.


Had I know how much time I would spend reading, I would have brought Atlas Shrugged.  I had read the books I had brought, except for the one that Roy hijacked and was reading, and one he had read and said was horrible.  With No One as Witness was one of the books that was in the house that we rented (hopefully the owner was not upset, as I didn’t actually finish and took this with me, but left a couple of good books (and one horrible book) in its place.  It was another book about a serial killer, however, it was written from the perspective of the police.  It is part of a series of novels set in London.   Probably won’t finish reading the series anytime soon.