but i get hooked on a story regardless.

and I'm listening to a Librivox audio version of Moby Dick by Herman Mellville during my daily commute.

Purse book: The Snowman by Jo Nesbo.

Last year I read her 1st, The Damage Done, and it was very good.

Second book in the Carl Houseman mystery series in Iowa, rec'd by dixiegrrrrl...

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/H_Authors/Harstad_Donald.html

Book 79 of 2012

and Robin McKinley's "Deerskin". Also "Beyond Outrage" by Robert Reich and "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" By Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco, but that is nonfiction, of course.

by Gillian Flynn

and find it's a mystery, and it's the 3rd non-series book that Flynn has written....have you read the first two?

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/F_Authors/Flynn_Gillian.html

Let us know if it's any good....

Her books are not as formulaic as so many are. Genuinely different characters and themes. I'm only 55 pages into Gone Girl, but so far it's very good.

...and with this my read/re-read (it had been spotty before) of the Sharpe series will be done.

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He's a gentleman thief and is considered the French Sherlock Holmes.

Edit: Why do I feel like I've read this before? It seems so familiar. Was it on TV?

I'd completely forgotten. It's still good the second time.

I believe I've read all of them, and that's a lot of words........

Interesting how his character changes over the years.

It hooked me right from the start. He's a fascinating character. I'll have to check out the other books now.

And Thoreau, again.

16th Agatha Raisin mystery - England...

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/B_Authors/Beaton_M-C.html

Book 80 of 2012

The stories are okay, but the Agatha Raisin character is worth getting to know. With all her faults, I feel protective of her.