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.