REVIEW - THE LIGHTNING THIEF

This book is for 6 of my reading challenges.
Young Adult Challenge
Read Your Own Books Challenge
100+ Challenge
New Author Challenge
Summer Vacation Challenge
Once Upon A Time 3 Challenge

"The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan


"The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riorden
(from the back cover)
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school.......again.And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.
Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.

This is the first book in the series. There are 5 books in all. I love Greek Mythology books and I was thrilled when I read about this book at another book blog. I was at our school book fair a few weeks ago and they had all 5 books and I bought them all. So you will be seeing the rest of them popping up here.
Percy, Grover and Annabeth are on a quest of find the lightning bolt. Along the way they run into several bad people the the God's have sent, but which God it doing all this? That is the question of the day. Percy starts out at Half Blood Camp, a place for kids that have a mother or father for a God. There Percy meets Annabeth and several other campers. Percy has killed the Minotaur that killed his mother. He is hurt and taken to the camp to recover. This leads to his visit with The Oracle. And sends him on his quest!

MY RATING: 5

A LONG TERM BOOK CHALLENGE

I was out strolling through blogs today. I found this really interesting blog. It is Fresh Ink Books. The person who has this blog is hosting a book challenge. It is called Filling In The Gaps 100 Project. This is a long term reading challenge. It is hosted by Andromeda. This is what the reading challenge is all about:

Duration: 5 years

"Make a list of one hundred books you feel you should read/want to read/need to read. Reading 75% or over is considered a success, give yourself a gold star."

She has her list posted and I have decided I would like to join in on this reading challenge. You know how you go around looking and browsing book blogs? You collect names of books on a list and hope to some day read them. Well, this is my list of books that I have been gathering. Some I have already read, while others are still waiting. This is my list of 100 books to fill in the gap!

1. The Mapmaker's Wife - Robert Whitaker
2. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation - Lauren Willig
3. Affinity - Sarah Waters
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo - Stieg Larsson
5. Girls of Riyadh - Rajaa al-Sahea
6. Phantom Prey - John Sandford
7. The View From Saturday - E. L. Konigsburg
8. Un Lun Dun - China Mieville
9. Fire by Night - Lynn Austin
10. The Devine Ryans - Wayne Johnston
11. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
12. The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
13. The Mysterious Benedict Society and The Perilous Journey - Trenton Lee Stewart
14. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
15. The Summoning - Kelley Armstong
16. Trespassers Will be Baptized - Elizabeth Emerson Hancock
17. In The Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
18. Surrendering to Yourself - Iris Krasnow
19. Dead Man Docking - mary Daheim
20. Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck
21. The Private Patient - P. D. James
22. In The Woods - Tana French
23. Garden Spells - Sarah Addison Allen
24. City of the Dead - T. L. Higley
25. Home Sweet Homicide - Craig Rice
26. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - Mary Ann Scaffer
27. The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R. King
28. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming - Joshilyn Jackson
29. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
30. The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night - Mark Haddon
31. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
32. To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee Harper
33. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
34. The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
35. Snow Flower and The Secret Fan - Lisa See
36. The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
37. Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
38. The Witches of Worm - Zilpha Keatley Snyder
39. Thirteen reasons Why - Jay Asher
40. Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton
41. The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
42. The Lightning King - Rick Riordan
43. Are You There God? It's Me Margaret - Judy Blume
44. Drowning Ruth - Christina Schwarz
45. While I Was Gone - Sue Miller
46. Sula - Toni Morrison
47. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
48. A Virtuous Woman - Kaye Gibbons
49. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
50. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
51. The Deep End of the Ocean - Jacquelyn Mitchard
52. A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
53. Back Roads - Tawni O'Dell
54. Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
55. Gap Creek - Robert Morgan
56. Vinegar Hill - A. Manette Ansay
57. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
58. The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
59. Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey
60. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
61. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
62. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
63. Ann of Green Gables - Lucy Montgomery
64. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
65. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
66. A Treasury of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
67. The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss
68. Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
69. World Without End - Ken Follett
70. Coraline - Neil Gaiman
71. The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
72. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
73. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
74. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
75. The House of Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
76. Kidnapped - Robert Louise Stevenson
77. Atonement - Ian McEwan
78. All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten - Robert Fulghum
79. Dewey - Vicki Myron
80. Marley and Me - John Grogan
81. Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
82. Pretties - Scott Westerfeld
83. Specials - Scott Westerfeld
84. Made in the U. S. A. - Billie Letts
85. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Smith
86. The Promise of Lumby - Gail Fraser
87. The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picould
88. Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisters - Rebecca Wells
89. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
90. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
91. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
92, Notes from A Small Island - Bill Bryson
93. Jude The Obscure - Thomas Hardy
94. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
95. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
96. Winnie The Pooh - A. A. Milne
97. Mudbound - Jordan Hillary
98. With Malice Toward None - Stephen B. Oates
99. The Land of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
100. The Wind in The Willows - Kenneth Grahama

LIBRARY LOOT

It's Library Loot week. Have decided to post about my loot. Get any good books from the library? Come and share them. This is what Library Loot is all about:

"Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by myself and Alessandra that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries!"

Our library was closed for the long Memorial Day weekend. So had to wait until Tuesday to go to the library. I picked out some great books to read and they are also for several of my reading challenges. Here is what I found:

Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
Pretties - Scott Westerfeld
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest J. Gaines
The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington

I know that's some heavy reading! It should keep me busy for awhile don't you think? Have you read any of these books? What did you get at the library?

REVIEW - ELEPHANT RUN

This book is for 6 of my reading challenges.
Young Adult Challenge
Read Your Name Challenge
Read Your Own Books Challenge
100+ Challenge
New Author Challenge
The Summer Vacation Reading Challenge

"Elephant Run" by Roland Smith



(from the back cover)
The year is 1941, and bombs are being fropped from the night sky, blanketing the city of London. When fourteen-year old Nick Freestone's apartment is demolished, his mother decides the sitution in England has grown too unstable, Nick will be safer, his mother hopes, living with his father in Burma on the family's teak plantation.
Nick arrives at the plantation eager to learn about the timber elephants raised and trained there, and also to spend time with his father. But before he can settle in, trouble erups in the remote Burmese village. Japanese soilders invade, and Nick's father is taken prisoner. Nick is stranded, forced towork as a servant to the new rulers. As llife in the village grows more dangerous for Nick and his young friend, Mya, they plan their daring escape, determined to rescue their families. But to succeed, they will have to brave not only the threat of enemy soldiers, but the dangers of their wilderness journey.

This is a book I bought at our school book fair a couple of months ago. I will admit the book cover grabbed me before I even read the back cover. This is wonderful book filled with lots of history about elephants and their mahouts, their trainers.
While Nick and Mya have to do what the Japanese solilders tell them, they have a family member, Mya's Great Grandfather, to help them out. He is a priest and is not harmed and allowed free rein of the Freestone plantation. He also knows where the secret tunnels under the house are and how to get to them. He leads Nick and Mya across the jungle to get Mya's brother and Nick's father out of the camps.

MY RATING: 5

IT'S TUESDAY, WHERE ARE YOU? AND TEASER TUESDAY

raidergirl is hosting It's Tuesday, Where Are You?

I am currently on the North Shore of Long Island. I am in a summer camp called Half Bloods. I just killed the Minotaur that killed my mother. My best friend is a Satyr and my former teacher is a The Chiron from Trainer of Hercules fame. (The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan)




miz b is hosting Teaser Tuesday's.

* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

MY TEASER:

Inside was a black-and-white bull's horn, the base jagged from being broken off, the tip splattered with dried blood. It hadn't been a nightmare.
"The Minotaur," I said.
"Um, Percy, it isn't a good idea--"
"That's what they call him in the Greek myths, isn't it?" I demanded. "The Minotaur. Half man, half bull."

"The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

REVIEW - MARRIED BY MISTAKE

This book is for 4 of my reading challenges.
Romance Reading Challenge
Read Your Own Books Challenge
100+ Challenge
New Author Challenge

"Married by Mistake" by Abby Gaines



(from the back cover0
The bride wore a long white dress and a look of utter despair.......
Do not adjust your set. That really was Casey Greene being jilted by her fiance on live TV! And that really was Memphis's most eligible bachelor who stepped in to marry her instead.
Millionaire businessman Adam Carmichael wanted only to help Casey save face. He isn't prepared for the news that their "fake" wedding is legal and binding.
While they secretly wait for an annulment, media and family scrutiny forces them to put on their best loving couple act. Except by now, neither one is quite sure who's acting........

This is a Harlequin Super Romance book. I haven't read a Harlequin book in ages. They just aren't my type of book. But this was a very refreshing and uplifing book to read. If you believe in fairy tales coming true then this is the book for you. Boy meets girl and love follows eventually, but first they have to find out they really love each other. While Casey is a romantic and wants that all adoring love match, Adam is the analytical person who doesn't believe in love. But it all works out in the end!!

MY RATING: 4

JANTSEN'S GIFT

This book is for 6 of my reading challenges.
A - Z Challenge(Titles)
Read Your Own Books
100+ Challenge
In Their Shoes
New Author Challenge
The Spring Reading Thing

"Jantsen's Gift" by Pam Cope



(from inside flap)
Ten yers ago, Pam Cope owned a hair salon in the small town of Neosho, Missouri. Her life revolved around her son's baseball games, her daughter's dance lessons, and family trips to places like Disney World. She had never been out of the country, nor had she any desire to travel far from home.
Then, on June 16, 1999, her life changed forever when her fifteen-year-old son Jantsen died from an undiagnosed heart ailment. Drowning in sadness and needing to get as far away from her loss as possible, she accepted a friend's invitation to visit orphanages in Vietnam. From the moment she arrived, everything began to shift. By the time she returned home, she had a new mission: to use her pain to change the world, one small step at a time, one child at a time.
Within one year, Pam had rescued thirty children from the streets of Vietnam. Within five yers, that number had grown to more than two hundred. Then, in 2006, a New York Times article about young children being sold into slavery in Ghanna galvanized her to travel thousands of miles to intervene on their behalf. Today, Pam is the director and founder of Touch A Life, and organization dedicated to helping at-risk children all over the world, and she is working to build a center in Northern Ghanna that offers a safe shelter and a promising future for the children she has rescued from slavery.

This is a very inspiring book!!! I can certainly feel for Pam at the loss of a child. I have lost a child, our daughter Shondella Iris died February 26, 1977. She was 4 1/2 years old. This is a very moving and sometimes hard book to read. All the agony, frustration, and heartbreak is almost overwhelming. But I did keep going if for no other reason than to see if Pam acturally got the children out of slavery in Ghanna. And she didn't get them all, but got lots of them. At the end of the book she gives you the info on the children that she has wrote about in the book. How they are doing and what's going on in their life's at the time the book is written. Pam also gives you the website of her foundation. You can find lots more info at the Touch A Life website. Just click on the name Touch A Life and you will go there!

MY RATING: 5

REVIEW - THE MIGHTY QUEENS OF FREEVILLE

This book is for 4 of my reading challenges.
A - Z Challenge
Read Your Own Books Challenge
100+ Challenge
In Their Shoes Challenge

"The Mighty Queens of Freeville" by Amy Dickinson



(from the inside page)
Like all good monarchs, the Mighty Queens of Freevile rule fairly and from a distance. Amy's memoir is in part a love letter to her hometown of Freevile, NY (population 458), a small town in upstate New York that satys simple and pure while the world changes around it, and in part iit is a tribute to a family of women who support and draw strengh from one another.
This is a memoir about the people and animals who have trampled through Amy's life. It offers a narrative that is both universal and personal.....honest and witty.

I really liked this book lots!! It was very funny at times...it was also a little sad at times. As Amy comes to the conclusion that her marriage is over and she has to raise her daughter alone, Amy gets on with her life raising her daughter, finding a job, getting an apartment, and going home to Freeville. She has a few stops along the way. Washington, D.C. and New York are a couple of stops she makes. Amy also gives you glimpses into her dating and her cats life. Then you also get to see her daughter grow up and go off to college. Wonderful book, I didn't want it to end, but it does and there is a happy ending. But you'll have to read the book to find out what the happy ending is!!

MY RATING: 5

REVIEW - THE GENIUS

This book is for 3 of my reading challenges.
Read Your Own Books, 100+ Challenge, and New Author Challenge.

"The Genius" by Jesse Kellerman





(from the back cover)
Victor Cracke, a tenant in a decaying New York slum, has disappeared, leaving behind countless cardboard boxes filled with strange, original artwork. Gallery owner Ethan Muller can see the artwork's brilliance--and its moneymaking potential. Strictly speaking, the drrawings don't belong to Ethan. But great art demands an audience, and before long Ethan's wildly successful show is being covered by the Times--an article that attracts the attention of an ex - police officer. Because the subjects of the pictures look exactly like the victimes in long-cold muder cases. Then Ethan receives a letter saying stop stop stop. And the still-missing genius my be the link to a madman--or the madman himself.......

This is a very confusing book, but soon you get into the plot and it takes off. Leaving you wondering what's going on and who is the genius, Ethan the art gallery person or Victor, the artist. It also has what the book calls interludes, where it takes you back in time, the time of when the Muller's migrated to the U.S. This part of the book spans over a hundred years and takes you to the present day. I can't really tell you anything about this part as it will give the mystery away. But it is an integral part of the book. As Ethan and Samantha work on finding the person responsible for the murder's they also become involved with each other. Samantha is the daughter of the ex-police officer interested in the art work.

MY RATING: 5

REVIEW - THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY

This is for 3 of my reading challenges. The Young Adult Challenge and 100+ Challenge and The Spring Thing.

"The View from Saturday" by E. L. Konigsburg



(from the back cover)
How did Mrs. Olinski choose her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? Why did Noah and Nadia and Ethan and Julian make such a great team? A lot of people were surprised when they won the sixth-grade Academic Bowl contest at Epiphany Middle School. Even more were surprised when they beat the seventh and eighth grade, too. How did i happen? It happened at least partly because they each valued something important in themselves, and also saw in the other three something of value. Mrs. Olinski, returning to teaching in a wheelchair after an automobile accident, found that the team became her answer to finding confidence and success. What she did not know, at least at first, was that her team knew more than she did the answer to why they had been chosen.

This was a very good book to read! I really enjoyed reading all the stories about each of the kids. They were all connected some way or another by their grandparents or friends of their grandparents. With one exception, Julian. But his dad had just bought the Sillington House and turned it into a Bed and Breakfast. He was getting customers already and of course his first overnight customer was the grandparents.

All of the children were exceptionally smart and they knew lots of stuff. They did a lot of studying for the Academic Bowl, with the help of Mrs. Olinski. But they also choose Mrs. Olinski as a project among themselves. They were going to help her get back on her feet, raise her above the wheel chair she was bound to. Not literally, but by getting her confidence back!

MUSING MONDAYS

It's Monday so it's time to Muse, Musing Monday that is! Rebecca is hosting this meme. This week she is asking about:

Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about early reading…

Do you remember how you developed a love for reading? Was it from a particular person, or person(s)? Do you remember any books that you read, or were read to you, as a young child? (question courtesy of Diane)

I used to hate reading when I was a child. I didn't quite get or understand what I was reading. So it got really frustrating when it came time to tell someone what I was reading. My comprehension was not working at all. I could read a whole page and not understand a word of what I had just read.

Then about 3rd or 4th grade, my teacher must have noticed that I was having problems. She put me in a special class so I could catch up and maybe, just maybe I could learn to comprehend what I was reading. I don't remember her name, oh I wish I could, but it is her that gave me the reading bug. I started reading everything and anything after that!! I was a regular book worm, always with a book stuck in my face. My parents weren't readers, or were my sisters and brother. But I made up for what they didn't read.

Most of the books I remember reading then were what we all call the classics now, Treasure Island, Alice in Wonderland, Swiss Family Robinson, Old Yeller were just a few I can remember off hand. I recently revisited some of those books in a reading challenge. It brought back so many wonderful memories!!

Can you see this little girl reading Treasure Island and hoping to meet a pirate? Who is this little girl? It's me, and I always wanted to be a pirate, but my brother said girls couldn't be pirates. Little did he know, there were lots of girl pirates! If you want some info on girl pirates go here. They have lots of info!!

BLOG IMROVEMENT PROJECT - WEEK 9(HELP ANOTHER BLOG)

Kim over at Sophisticated Dorkiness is hosting the 2009 Blog Improvement Project. It's a way to work on improving your blog. Someway or anther I missed a week! This week is HELP ANOTHER BLOG. This is what Kim has to say:

"When I think about why I love blogging, the first reason that comes to mind is the relationships I’ve built with other bloggers. So I think now is a good time to spread our blog improvement a little bit and try to help each other out. Week 9 for the Blog Improvement Project is to Help Another Blog!"

This activity is inspired by Day 26 of the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge at ProBlogger. For Day 26, Darren said,
"Most bloggers naturally spend the vast majority of their time improving their own blogs – but there can be a lot of good things happen when you spend time on other people’s blogs making them better in one way or another.
I think it’s fairly obvious why it can be worth helping another blogger achieve their goals so won’t go into it too much except to say that there’s not many ways to make a better impression on another blogger than to help them achieve their goals for their blog."

This weeks task is going to be to pair up with another blogger to help answer a specific question about how to improve their blog! So now I'm of to get paired up with another blogger. I'll let ya know how it all works out soon.

My partner for this is Elizabeth over at Thoughts from an Evil Overlord Elizabeth has some awesome things at her place. I have got to get back over to her place and check out all the stuff she has!

REVIEW - THE SECOND MRS. GIOCONDA

This book is for 3 of my reading challenges. Young Adult Challenge and The 100+ Challenge. The Spring Reading Challenge

"The Second Mrs. Gioconda" by E. L. Konigsburg




(from the back cover)
The greatest artist of his time......an apprentice with a larcenous heart and an aversion to the truth.......a young duchess whose plain face belies her beautiful soul. Could the complex ways these three lives intertwine hold the key to a historical riddle as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa's smile--why Leonardo da Vinci devoted three years to a painting of the second wife of an unimportant merchant when all the nobles of Europe were begging for a portrait by his hand? Only a master storyteller like E. L. Koningsburg could create such an intriguing answer to the puzzle behind the most famous paining of all time.

This was a pretty good book! Lots of historical info and lots of interpretation. You have to use you imagination to add the correct words to bring the picture into focus. I was a little confused on this one. I never did figure out who the second Mrs. Gioconda was. And what she had to do with the Mona Lisa's smile. So I guess I was more than a little confused.

MY RATING: 3

REVIEW - WORK IN PROGRESS

This book is for 3 of my reading challenges. Read Your Own Books, 100+ Challenge, and New Author.

"Work in Progress" by Kristin Armstrong



(from inside flap)
You've seen her: She brightens a room. Her confidence is unshakable. Her integrity inspires others. Her laughter is contagious, her hugs are addictive, and her passion for spritual things compels you to see God more consistenly and creatively.
This is a woman of grace. If you find that description a bit daunting, don'e be intimidated. Anyone can develop the traits of a gracious woman--the key is being open to improvement.
Kristin Armstrong invites you to smooth some of your rough edges and discomer grace as a way of like. Using real-life anecdones, biblical wisdom, and insight bron of hard experience, Kristin explores what God has to say about being His kind of woman in the twenty-first century.
Warm, engaging, and practical, WORK IN PROGRESS explores twelve traits of grace and invites reflection and interaction as you put into practice what you read.
"Take your time," Kristin urges. "Enjoy being a work in progress. Revel in the adventure. Bask in your unveiling. We are all unfinished, but bit by bit the glory of His likeness is being revealed."
Come and share your unique, utterly necessary light.

I'm not too keen on reading religious inspirational books. I feel like they are preaching to me, which I don't like either. The way I practice my religion is my business. But this book was very inspirational and gives the sense that you can do it. I really enjoyed this book very much.

MY RATING: 5

REVIEW - WHAT JAMIE SAW

This is for 2 of my reading challenges. The Young Adult Challenge and The 100+ Challenge.



"What Jamie Saw" by Carolyn Coman

(from the back cover)
Jamie and his mom and baby sister Nin have moved to Earl's little trailer that looks like a toaster up in the hills in the middle of nowhere. Jamie imagines that they are the only survivors of some catastrophe, but they really moved because Van threw Nin across the room. Nin's okay, because Mom caught her, and Earl brings them food and makes sure they're okay. But then there's the county fair and Jamie wants to go. And there's school and he misses his teacher. There isn't enough money for Christmas, and Mom is worried all the time......And then one day Van shows up.

This is the story of Jamie, his Mom and his baby sister Nin. Why did they move into a tiny trailer in the middle of nowhere? Because Van threw Nin across the room. Jamie saw all this one night while he was in his bed sleeping. Mom has packed them all up with all their stuff and moved into Earl's tiny trailer because of Van. This is a book about abuse and Mom is running from it. They are all scared and don't exactly know what to do. Then Jamie's teacher comes along and helps out. She gives Mom the name of a place to go for help and takes Jamie for the day so Mom can go to a meeting. The final face down of Mom, Jamie and Van is very emotional. But they are all OK!!!

MY RATING: 5

REVIEW - "G" IS FOR GUMSHOE

This is for 4 of my reading challenges.
A - Z Challenge(Titles)
Decades '09 Challenge
Support Your Local Library
100+ Challenge

"G is for Gumshoe" by Sue Grafton


(from the inside back cover)
A rich, complex, and gripping tale in which Kinsey's grit is tested to its utmost as she unearths the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, comes face-to-face with the grisly fact of her own mortality. "g" is for guilt and guile, for greed and grief and Grim Reaper. And "G: is for good: very, very good indeed.

This is a typical Kinsey Millhone mystery. While Kinsey is hired by Mrs. Clde Gersh to bring her mother back from the Mojave desert. There is a man she helped put in prison, that has hired a contract assisin to kill her. Kinsey is almost killed when the man wrecks her little Volkswagen with is truck. Then under advise from the district atterney, she has a bodyguard to watch over her. The assassin try's twice to kill her, while at the same time the mysterious Agatha's life gets in her way. As she hunts for clues as to the mystery of Agatha's life, it all accumulates in end. And Kinsey solves the mystery of Agatha and gets saved from being killed by the assassin.

MY RATING: 5