Today we decided to go to the library. I've been wanting to go for ages, but I had a fine to pay. No big deal except I couldn't ever seem to remember having my card and my debit card on me at the same time and believe it or not, they don't like having to look up your account. Even to take money from you. Crazy.

Anyway, we went to the big library in downtown because I thought there would be more selection just 'there'...usually I find my books on their website and order them because the libraries never actually seem to have anything worth reading in them. But that's probably because I wander aimlessly through the stacks not really knowing what to pick up.

But that's exactly how I found books today and I think I scored some good ones:
Charlotte Bingham's Daughters of Eden which "focuses on the lives and fortunes of four very different young women at the outbreak of" WWII. They turn out to be spies, which I thought could be very cool.
Ken Follet's Whiteout which is billed as an "intricate, knife edge drama" about a killer virus and bad guys misuing it.
Anne Bennett's Daughter of Mine which is about a woman, also in WWII who is disowned by her family when she decides to keep the child conceived when she is attacked.
John Grisham's The King of Torts which is another lawyer story about a rookie lawyer this time. Martha Grimes' The Train Now Departing which contains Two Novellas.
And Deborah Copanken Kogan's Shutterbabe, her memoirs which are supposedly about how she went to war as a photojournalist and how that experience changed her. So far it's just a gratuitous retelling of her sexual exploits and I don't think I shall bother reading any further.

I also found a DVD on Digital Photography: The Camera which promises to teach the fundamentals of digital imaging. Everything from F-stops to using light to files to shopping for a camera are covered so I'm hoping I will understand it and that it will improve my photography. Before my Canon got ill I was becoming more and more frustrated with being unable to control the flash and readjust the white light or whatever that is called. Let's hope I can learn something from this. If not, I also recently purchased Photography for Dummies. But, as I've mentioned before, I hate non-fiction so I may or may not slog my way through that one.

Well, now that you know what I'm planning on reading in the next little while, I'll update you if any of the books are really good.

Just finished another book. Thought I'd offer a brief comment rather than just adding it to the list at the bottom of this page because I enjoyed it so much. You know how if you look at books a lot, you start to forget if you recognize an author's name just because you see it everywhere or if you've actually read any of their books? Well MG was one of those for me. Turns out I read her "End of the Pier" a few years ago. Bought this because I liked the synopsis on the back. Both very good books. But this one in particular. An incredibly interesting idea for a mystery story with a GREAT twist in the middle that I never saw coming (and I always guess the end of mystery books). If you like everything neatly tied up by the end, you're in for a disappointment. But read it anyway, fabulous read!