Books 2009 - various fiction
37. Skin Privilege by Karin Slaughter
The usual Karin Slaughter thing - a really good mystery built around really annoying characters. Polished off in less than a day and throughly enjoyed it. I haven't entirely been reading these in order, but this is one of the latest and I think she's getting better as she goes on.
38. The Secrets of the Chess Machine by Robert Löhr
Based on the missing period of a true story (see The Turk on Wikipedia). I thought this was marginally amusing bus reading material, but about halfway through found that it was midnight and I was still reading it one night.
Has bumped the need to know more about the Austro-Hungarian empire higher up my radar.
39. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
An alternate 9/11 story where the attack took place in San Francisco, which turns rapidly into a police state. Flawed, but enormously compelling. It's aimed at young adults, so I'm hardly the target audience, but I do think we can all do with a wake-up call to remind us how quickly governments are taking away our freedoms in the name of the War On Terror.
The usual Karin Slaughter thing - a really good mystery built around really annoying characters. Polished off in less than a day and throughly enjoyed it. I haven't entirely been reading these in order, but this is one of the latest and I think she's getting better as she goes on.
38. The Secrets of the Chess Machine by Robert Löhr
Based on the missing period of a true story (see The Turk on Wikipedia). I thought this was marginally amusing bus reading material, but about halfway through found that it was midnight and I was still reading it one night.
Has bumped the need to know more about the Austro-Hungarian empire higher up my radar.
39. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
An alternate 9/11 story where the attack took place in San Francisco, which turns rapidly into a police state. Flawed, but enormously compelling. It's aimed at young adults, so I'm hardly the target audience, but I do think we can all do with a wake-up call to remind us how quickly governments are taking away our freedoms in the name of the War On Terror.