It's been longer than I thought

Wow, I'm more behind in posting here than I'd thought.

I did finish Deep in the Darkness; it was rather strange and I don't know whether I'd say I enjoyed it or not. I was intrigued by the disease theory that Dr. Michael Cayle came up with as for who the "others" (I've forgotten the term used to describe them) truly are. I also wonder how long ago that disease would had to have occurred for the story to work.

After I finished that, I read Ruined by Paula Morris. From the back of the book, I kept wondering if I'd already read this book or not, but I did end up remembering the name of the actual book I was remembering - Walk of the Spirits by Richie Tankersley Cusick. In actually reading this book, I quickly realized that they were most definitely not the same book. This was a fun little ghost/voodoo-type curse story. I was able to guess at why Rebecca was seeing Lisette fairly early in the story - I'm surprised that once she heard the story of the supposed curse she didn't figure everything out. Life got quite interesting for her - but thankfully the curse is now over. I almost want to wonder why her aunt told her to stay away from those three families - although I can understand why Rebecca was supposed to avoid the cemetary.

Having finished that, I moved to Robin Burcell's The Bone Chamber. This book was a lot of fun - I kept wanting to read more to learn what happened next. I do, however, have to agree with Tasha and Sydney when they argue that it would go (or would have gone) easier if Sydney was told everything from the start. One of my earliest "fun things about this book" was that it felt quite a bit like the show Bones, but from Angela's perspective instead of Temperance's. As the story continued, however, it started to feel a bit more like National Treasure and The Da Vinci Code - both of which I also enjoyed. I'm tempted to suggest this for the next Lemmings meeting - except I've had this book I've been waiting and waiting to suggest, and I might actually be able to suggest it next time.

I then started Andrew Greeley's book Angels of September. I am quite enjoying it so far - partially that has to do with knowing lots of the characters, but only in their future selves. It's been interesting to learn more about these characters. The Punk's (Fr. Blackie's) comments have been pretty funny too - they remind me a bit of Dermot Coyne's comments, as do Cardinal Sean's comments. I look forward to learning what all is going on with these characters. I slightly wonder if Fr. Greeley based some of Mike Casey's character/childhood on his own. My heart goes out to both Mike Casey and Ann Reilly - I suspect I would find this book a bit sadder if I didn't know where they end up later (presumably at the end of this book).

Last night, while in the middle of this book, I read a kid's book I found at the library and just had to read: No Talking by Andrew Clements. In this book, the 5th grade boys and the 5th grade girls don't get along very well, and then one day (slightly inspired by Gandhi) a contest is formed. Who can speak less (fewer words) from lunch-time Tuesday to lunch-time Thursday, the boys or the girls? The ground rules are no words (but other sounds: whistling, etc. are acceptable) and in response to a question from a teacher or other adult only three words are allowed - any more count as points for the other team and the team with the most points wins. This was a fun little book about an interesting discovery about language and the use of words.