3 Books a Week!

I'd not been reading quite as much as usual for a while (mainly due to a glut of CSI New York watching after we bought the series DVD's!) but over the past week I've absorbed three books... So I thought I'd tell you a bit about them!

Firstly, the latest Timothy James Beck *cheer* When you Don't See Me! I've loved all the previous products of these authors (three or four of them write under the one name!) and this latest instalment, based around the same neck of the woods and focussing on a previous distant character, was no let down! I couldn't wait to turn each page and take in each new turn in the storyline! Ok, so they're no literary masterpieces. They won't be wining the Booker prize any time soon either but for me, they give me a real buzz! So much so that I have a strange, unusual sense of loss after finishing the book! It's like I become a little depressed... Not long lasting but long enough to feel uncomfortable having been riding on a happy vibe!



I'm not sure that this is a great recommendation the way I'm describing it but I really would advocate reading all of the T-J-B books! Not just fluff but something that you can fall into and perhaps forget the real world for long enough to imagine that everything is really all right!

After this, I decided to keep things light and read one of the latest offerings of Alex Sanchez - Getting It! Another simple - High School teen drama played out in a blatant-advert-for-Gay-Straight-Alliances kind of way but fun all the same. Sanchez obviously tries to be in the mind of teen angst when he writes but doesn't really quite hit this spot but this doesn't remove the enjoyment I get from these simple escapades. You know what's going to happen in the end but it's not a bore getting there. I've still got God Box to read by Alex!



Finally, and just finished this morning, is Pebble in a Pool by William Taylor - again aimed at teens and young adults it's a dainty little read of just 124 pages (hence the read-speed with this one!) but nonetheless quite a comfy exploration of small-town attitudes in a brief way. It does rather savagely attack religious belief, scorning the bible and scandalising cult religions but there's a message buried in here that the author is obviously trying to push out there and it ain't a negative one really!



So, three books in a week... Yeah, I know some folk do three in a day but I've been slacking off so I feel a bit better about my brain-power again now! (I'll tackle something more heavy-duty next!) for now... Did I see a copy of CSI-NY Series 2 on ebay...? Jxx