I'm in the midst of David Morrell's Scavenger, the follow-up to Creepers, which I really liked (I think it would make a great movie). This one isn't as good; in fact, it's a bit far-fetched, but I'm far enough in to keep going. Next up: Craig Johnson's Kindness Goes Unpunished.

I started One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson over the weekend and got pretty far into it, only to receive notice from the library that Peter Abrahams' Nerve Damage and Craig Johnson's Kindness Goes Unpunished were waiting for me. It was a toss-up, but I started Nerve Damage and now have two books going concurrently. This usually doesn't work well for me, so we'll see how things go (whether I finish either one).

Well, I finished up the Lansdale over the weekend and, while I liked it, I felt a bit disappointed. A couple of loose threads were left hanging at the end, very uncharacteristic of what I've read of Lansdale before. I immediately started on the Robert Crais book, The Watchman: A Joe Pike Novel and finished that on Saturday, diving into Adrian McKinty's The Bloomsday Dead, which I finished Sunday. Both great books--fast-moving, gritty, violent. I really don't read that fast,… Continue