Monday, April 9, 2012

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a bookish meme hosted by Book Journey. It's where we gather to share what we have read this past week and what we plan to read this week. It's a great way to network with other bloggers, see some wonderful blogs, and put new titles on your reading list. So hop on over via the link above and join in...and leave a comment here so I can check out what you are reading.


Books Read (click on titles for review):
The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer
Swan Song by Edmund Crispin
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Star Trek Vol 1 by Mike Johnson
Venetia by Georgette Heyer
Morgue Drawer Four by Jutta Profijt
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Whitechapel Horrors by Edward B Hanna
Silver & Guilt by Cynthia Smith


Currently Reading:
The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart:
Someone--or something--is trying to frighten Cornelia Van Gorder to death. But the plucky patrician doesn't scare easily. In fact, she's always longed to play detective. Until she stumbles on a corpse one storm-swept night, and realizes she's involved in a deadly game with an elusive killer known as The Bat.

The Fire Engine that Disappeared by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahloo: The cunning incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the lives of the building's eleven occupants. And if one of Martin Beck's colleagues hadn't been on the scene, the explosion would have led to a major catastrophe since-for reasons nobody could satisfactorily explain-a regulation firetruck has vanished. Was it terrorism, suicide, or simply a gas leak? And what, if anything, did the explosion have to do with the peculiar death earlier that day of a forty-six-year-old bachelor whose cryptic suicide note consisted of only two words: “Martin Beck”?

Books that spark my interest:
Bland Beginning by Julian Symons
A Finer End by Deborah Crombie
Pearls Before Swine by Margery Allingham


2 comments:

Laurel-Rain Snow said...

You have some scary books this week! Hope you enjoy them....

Kristin said...

Wow - you read a lot last week. I thought I did good with finishing 4 books.

Hope you have a good week!
Kristin @ Always With a Book