Finished I'LL WALK ALONE

Of course I did.  It is impossible to put down!  It is by Mary Higgins Clark.



I loved it especially because it was an Alvirah and Willy Meehan book.  The main character was often a wimp and Alvirah and Willy weren't as together as I wanted to give them credit for, but if these weren't the case, the book would not have been so DARN riveting!



I have now started on People of the Silence, another Gear "early Americans" book.  This is set in what is now called Chaco Canyon in about 950-1100 AD.  We are exploring the Anasazi and the increasing problems which will eventually cause them to leave.

Finished THE NEON GRAVEYARD and EARTH, a Daily Show with Jon Stewart book

Each of the six books of Vicki Pettersson's Signs of the Zodiac series, starting in the first with a really creative supernatural world, became more far out.  This series ender was really far strange--even more so than the others--and did tax my willingness to suspend belief.  But, I stuck it out and am happy with the way it ended.





I also finished Earth, A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race.  I had started reading this through like a normal book, but had to stop, finding it depressing.  I'd expected it to be funny, but found it cynical.  There were a couple chuckles in the book, but there were also some appalling things that, well, "Who would think of that?"  Like "The Diarrhea of Anne Frank."  No, not only is it too soon for that, it will always be too soon for that!   The book actually has a great premise, but breaks through the fourth wall and plays it for laughs.  If they played it seriously (like it really is a guide to the Human Race for those who come after we have gone), it could, I think actually have been funny.  But it was trying way too hard.  Anyway, about half-way through the book, I relegated it to the bathroom where I read a couple pages on good days (digestively speaking), and found it much less annoying that way.



I am now about to start I'll Walk Alone, by Mary Higgins Clark.