Book posts are pretty dull, sorry

I hope all this talk of books I am too lazy to read has stirred a desire for increased literacy in someone out there. I forgot what I said the next three categories were going to be, so here they are with new names and in a different order.



Category 3: Books I Have Read and Mostly Enjoyed

• Tears of the Giraffe. This is the second book in the Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency series. I lent the first one to my mom, who lent it to my grandmother, who probably lent it to someone else and I'll never see it again. You don't have to read them in order though; the whole series is great! The main character is a female detective in Botswana. These books are (mostly) very light hearted and make Botswana seem like a place you would want to go on vacation. The characters are very likeable. If nobody speaks up about wanting this book, I am going to just pick someone at random and force them to read it.


• Word Freak. This book is about competitive Scrabble. For real. A whole book about Scrabble and the bizarre folks who play in Scrabble tournaments. Probably one of the top ten nerdiest pursuits ever. The thing is, by the time I finished this I was like, "I'm going to become a competitive Scrabble player!" Oh yeah, it gets to you.


• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. I liked it. I thought it would be depressing, but it wasn't.


• The Uncommon Reader. The queen takes up reading. This is a novella, good if you don't have enough time for an actual novel. It's a little bit proper though, being about the queen and all.


• The Dive from Clausen's Pier. I haven't actually read this one.

Category 4: Mysteries. Of the Something Happens and Who Caused it/Killed it/Stole it Variety. Not Like, Mysteries of the Universe.

• Maisie Dobbs. I think the cover is a wood block print! I did a wood block print in high school of a girl brushing her teeth. Boy, that was tedious to carve.
• Code to Zero. This is by Ken Follett, who is usually good for a page turner.
• The Necropolis Railway. Neat title.
• The Intelligencer. I actually have no idea if this is a mystery, because I lost the dust jacket. But the title seems kind of mysterious, and I opened it up at random and read this sentence, "Their spy had incredible cover." So that seems pretty mysterious too.