Reading...

I finished reading Farewell, My Subaru, that I talked about last week. It was a quick read, an amusing book about the author's initial challenges getting into a greener way of living in New Mexico. There is also a website, though I haven't visited it - farewellmysubaru.com.

I have also just finished a 645 page novel by Robert McCammon called The Queen of Bedlam. This was a gamble, picked up at random off the library shelf. I wasn't sure whether I'd like it at first, but it soon became evident that it was a compelling story (in the detective genre) set in New York in the early 1700s and I loved it, especially the main character, Matthew Corbett. This sort of book, along with Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series and Jack Whyte's Skystone series, are now my preferred reading, rather than the paperback fluff I used to consume.