Have any of you read The no.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SMith? It is the first of a series, a mystery...very fun to read....it might be lighter reading then you guys like, but I really enjoyed it!

I haven't Bird, but I'm always on the lookout for new authors, and I do looove mysteries and thrillers! Thanks for that.

The newest one in these parts - Maumee - is like that. Soooo expensive though. By the time you snag drinks and munchies, two people are spending over $30.

I'll wait till I can buy it, grab snacks at the grocery, and watch it on the couch in my fluffies and fuzzies. Costs the same, and I get to see it until I hear all the dialogue lol.

I'm going to the movies this weekend, Juno or Atonement.

Anyone seen either of those?

lil'monkey saw juno. she liked it. we went to untracable on saturday. it was pretty good. not oscar winner..but entertaining.

that's the only one i don't have. i even have her scarpetta cookbook and her biography of billie graham's wife. is it a scarpetta book? or the andy guy?

i love grisham too. for a light read...painted house. i really liked it. so different than his normal.

i'll add to this thread. i had a formal library in my house. i read like people drink water. i love half price books...and half off day at goodwill.

Heheheheheh you need to drink water like you read

Of course I love Harry Potter and the Shopaholic series as my faves. Also like Amy Tan and I worked at same company as James Patterson befoer he was a big time author.

Maybe gonna start Eat Pray Love this weekend.

Hey anyone use their Ipod to listen to books?

I haven't read that biography and I'm not sure I'd enjoy it actually, but I did have that cookbook one before we moved house. When we were moving house last time, DH went ape when I started packing boxes and boxes of books (yet again), so I finally gave in and gave them all away....to a good home though....I would never sell my books, but I have no problem with giving them to some one who loves to read as much as I do.

I'd been collecting books.... whose authors I liked...for quite some time, and in each case I had all, or most, of their books. It made me sad to just get rid of them, but it was getting more and more expensive for us to move all the time, and as we'd been moving states regularly.

NO! No-one was after us . We sold our house some years ago and had been moving around Oz, getting work wherever we could, just so we could see our country while we were still able to do so. Something we've never regretted doing, but we're "home" now, and I just might start my collection all over again. My favourite haunts when I'm in the book collection mood are second hand book stores and garage sales.

I think the only plus to having cognotive problems that I've noticed so far is that I can read a book and put it away, and then read it all over again in a year or two, and never remember what happened in the story!

You don't get many plusses with this disease, so I'm pleased to have found one I'm happy with.

WOW! I don't go so far as having her cookbook!! LOL Her new book is Kay Scarpetta - Book of the Dead. I just finished reading it. It was good, but I also didn't like it as well as her previous ones. I have to say I don't particularly like the Andy Brazil series either though!

It's back to the library tomorrow morning to get more books though. I went last Saturday, got 7, finished them, now time to get more. I love to read too, mostly suspense and mystery.

I just read my first Vince Flynn this week. Going to pick up more of his tomorrow. Also read Jeffrey Deaver, the first few of the Lincoln Rhyme series. I think I've finished all of Tami Hoag's mystery and suspense books. Just finished The Alibi Man. Also High Noon by Nora Roberts.

Anybody got anymore great suggestions before I go tomorrow??

....The cookbook one did have a story but had a recipe with every chapter!

I too was rather unimpressed with "Book of the Dead"......lets hope her next one is back to her usual form.

I read that "The Front" is the one she's writing now, and due out some time this year.