Books read in 2008

January 2008

Nothing Can Rescue Me...Elizabeth Daly...very good
Holy Disorders...Edmund Crispin...excellent
The House Without the Door...Elizabeth Daly...okay
In A Lonely Place...Dorothy Hughes...didn't finish...written from the murderers point of view
Swan Song...Edmund Crispin...good
Love Lies Bleeding...Edmund Crispin...excellent

February 2008

Sudden Vengeance...Edmund Crispin...good
Fen Country...Edmund Crispin...good
The Silver Bough...Lisa Tuttle...didn't finish
Love Over Scotland...Alexander McCall Smith...ok
Glimpses of the Moon...Edmund Crispin

March 2008

The Case of the Gilded Fly...Edmund Crispin...
Appleby and the Ospreys...Michael Innes...good
Thou Shell of Death...Nicholas Blake...excellent
The Beast Must Die...Nicholas Blake...intriguing
The Corpse in the Snowman...Nicholas Blake

April 2008

Hamlet Revenge...Michael Innes...complex
A Thousand Days in Venice...DeBlasi...inspiring, eccentric
Rose Cottage...Mary Stewart
A Thousand Days in Tuscany...DeBlasi

May 2008

Windy City...Scott Simon...didn't finish
Thornyhold...Mary Stewart...good old-fashioned read
The Lady in the Palazzo...DeBlasi

June 2008

The Moonspinners...Mary Stewart...good
Nine Coaches...Mary Stewart
The Miracle at Speedy Motors...Alexander McCall Smith...good
Wildfires at Midnight...Mary Stewart...ok
People of the Book...Geraldine Brooks...tried, didn't finish
My Brother Micbael...Mary Stewart...dum
The Ivy Tree...Mary Stewart...suspenseful

July 2008

Madame, Will You Talk...Mary Stewart...no more!
The Man Who Was Thursday...G.K.Chesterton
Precious Bane...Mary Webb...good, but sad
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek...Annie Dillard...interesting but odd
Gilead...Marilynne Robinson...loved
Mystery Compliations
Over the Moon...Elissa Haden Church...dated
The Spotted Cat...Christianna Brand

August 2008

Green for Danger...Christianna Brand
The Bedquilt....Dorothy Canfield Fisher...excellent
Two Old Women...Velma Wallis...interesting

September 2008

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle...didn't finish
The Complete Four...Pam Allyn...professional reading
The Artist's Way...Julia Cameron...

October 2008

Cordouroy Mansions...Alexander McCall Smith...serial read online
Poppy...Avi...child's book
Fantastic Mr. Fox...Roald Dahl...fun
Good Masters, Sweet Ladies...L.A.Schlitz...Newbery Winner

November 2008

Death of a Gossip...didn't care for

December 2008

Inkheart...Cornelia Funke...good
The Guernsey Literary Society...part good