Another Posting Delay

I've not been very good lately about keeping this updated. I have a few things to add here, but not quite as much as I'd like. I spent a bit too much time watching a bunch of movies I'd gotten from the library (many of which weren't that great, but were about what I expected).

I did finish Lord Peter fairly quickly. I particularly enjoyed the last two - Lord Peter as a father is just rather amusing. My biggest complaint with them was that Harriet Vane didn't seem like the same character she'd been earlier. I especially enjoyed Lord Peter's comment that in unsettling times/moods (I can't recall the exact phrase and I've already returned the book) he naturally turns to the common man. So he went to the butler room and they humanely let him polish the silver (admittedly, Harriet was in labor for 24 hours (or so) and he was doing the nervous father waiting thing).

Having finished that I quickly read a Young Adult book I found while shelving. It was called Lessons from a Dead Girl by Jo Knowles. This was a rather touching, but sad book. In some ways I found myself relating to the main character, Laine, more because of some of her emotions/reactions as opposed to what happened to her. I don't know if I'd recommend this to others or not, but it was rather interesting, in a way.

I'm now in the middle of Irish Tiger by Andrew Greeley - it's the next Nuala Anne mystery in the list for me. I'm currently enjoying it, but I'd like a bit more of Nuala and Dermot - even if it is nice to hear about the current mystery's background directly from those involved, as opposed to reading about it, or hearing about it from some other character related to the one(s) involved. I'm not sure what I think about the goons coming over (following two of the characters?) to the Coyne/McGrail household with salami (or was it summer sausage) as weapons - it does make for an interesting image, but I'm just not sure how effective they would be.

I plan to finish this book soon, but I don't know quite how soon I'll be able to finish it - I have a few tv show seasons from the library that I need to try and finish.

After reading part of that I quickly read another book I'd gotten from the library, Almost Perfect by Judy Duarte. As has happened with the other similar books I've read, this was about what I expected. I wanted to complain to Jake (I think that was his name, I can't recall for sure now - and again I've already returned it) in regards to not realizing that if he changed the ranch the way he was thinking, for kids like his niece, he was going to need a doctor on-site and that it would be a good way to keep (nuts, I can't even come up with a guess for her name, I think it maybe started with an M, but I could be wrong). You can tell how life-changing I found this book (or more accurately, didn't), I suppose.


In the middle of Irish Tiger I also read Joyce Sweeney's Waiting for June. This was, at times, a very strange book, but it was quite enjoyable and intriguing. There were lots of mysteries to be solved, and mostly were, but a little bit of the mysterious remains. In a way, this book was rather similar to the semi-recent movie Juno, but not quite exactly (which I suppose is good, especially in terms of copyright issues). I particularly enjoyed most of the whale parts, even if they were odd.

However, it's now well past bed-time, so I'd better call this good, especially as I don't have more to say about what I've read so far.