Thank You Writers’ Strike!

She is on a killing spree and ends the spree with her last victim … the detective. Instead of killing him though she tortures him and then lets him go, knowing that she is going to prison forever. The detective can’t understand why she has let him go and it tortures him more because he doesn’t know why. Apparently, this is the first book in the series and I am looking forward to more novels to come. If you don’t have the stomach for stuff like this though, I wouldn’t recommend it. Like I said, this is not my normal genre, but I just found the premise of the book to be quite fascinating.

I also finished, The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger. This has been a book that I have wanted to read for a long time, but had never set aside the time to read it. I am so glad that I waited though because I don’t know if I could have appreciated this book as much as I did now. This has to be one of the best books I have ever read. It is about a man who time travels, but not in a science fiction kind of way. He is born with a condition that causes him to time travel and he arrives to all of his destinations completely naked, starving, and with no money. He has to become resourceful and find ways to eat and live when he travels to these new destinations. Who he comes to visit often though ends up being his future wife at different stages in her life and they form a friendship and then later fall in love. I don’t want to give too much away, but I noticed that it is being made into a film and I am hoping it does more justice to the book than other films I have seen in the past. Without giving anything away, my husband came into our room to see me bawling like a baby...dripping nose, mascara running, hiccuping....the whole works. I am rarely moved by a book in this way, but this book did it for me. If you haven’t read it run, run, run to the library and get it.

I got an early release copy of The Sweet Potato Queens’ Guide to Raising Children for Fun & Profit, but hadn’t had a chance to sit down and read this until now.