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What I've been reading
Jan. 19th, 2007 02:52 pmI haven't posted much about what I've been reading. I've always got a book in my bag for the Metro or other downtimes. I recently read Dana Stabenow's Blindfold Game. She writes the Kate Shugak mysteries, set in Alaska. This book was more of a thriller-type thing. The denouement has terrorists attacking Anchorage Alaska. It made a lot of sense the way she wrote it. I liked the main characters too.
My current nighttime book is Margaret Frazier's The Sempster's Tale. It's the latest in her series about a cloistered nun living in the time of Henry VI. I have a small quibble about the number of times she's left the cloister, but it's believeable in the context of each book. It's just mounting up. She pays incredible attention to historical detail, though. Good stuff.
The book I can only read in the daylight is Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. It's incredibly creepy. The hero (so to speak) is a psychopath who sublimates by killing bad guys. He works for the Miami police department. During the book, he's investigating a serial killer. There's something very strange about a book that makes me feel sympathetic to a murdering bastard. It's creepy because he's so matter of fact about it. It's been turned into a series on the cable channel Showtime. The first two eps are on Showtime's site if you want to have a look. Frankly, I can't watch the show. Icky, icky, icky. But Micahel Hall is cute and I love the secondary characters.
So I was walking back to the office after lunch and Goodnight Moon started running through my head. I started putting it into the Sentinel universe - injured Blair lying in bed with Jim nearby, etc. By the time I got back to the office and sat down to type I'd forgotten a bunch of the rhymes. No matter how weird it looks, next time this happens, I'm pulling out a notepad and pen in the middle of the sidewalk.
My current nighttime book is Margaret Frazier's The Sempster's Tale. It's the latest in her series about a cloistered nun living in the time of Henry VI. I have a small quibble about the number of times she's left the cloister, but it's believeable in the context of each book. It's just mounting up. She pays incredible attention to historical detail, though. Good stuff.
The book I can only read in the daylight is Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. It's incredibly creepy. The hero (so to speak) is a psychopath who sublimates by killing bad guys. He works for the Miami police department. During the book, he's investigating a serial killer. There's something very strange about a book that makes me feel sympathetic to a murdering bastard. It's creepy because he's so matter of fact about it. It's been turned into a series on the cable channel Showtime. The first two eps are on Showtime's site if you want to have a look. Frankly, I can't watch the show. Icky, icky, icky. But Micahel Hall is cute and I love the secondary characters.
So I was walking back to the office after lunch and Goodnight Moon started running through my head. I started putting it into the Sentinel universe - injured Blair lying in bed with Jim nearby, etc. By the time I got back to the office and sat down to type I'd forgotten a bunch of the rhymes. No matter how weird it looks, next time this happens, I'm pulling out a notepad and pen in the middle of the sidewalk.
