Enjoy the Day!!

Today's Blog/Website of the Day is Follow the Reader found at http://followthereader.wordpress.com/. This is a new blog for those who read & recommend books. Follow the Reader is sponsored by NetGalley but you'll most often hear two independent publishing voices: Charlotte Abbott & Kat Meyer.

I'm currently reading AND JUSTICE THERE IS NONE by Deborah Crombie. This is 8th of 13 in series featuring Duncan Kincaid, a Scotland Yard superintendent, and Gemma James, a Scotland Yard Inspector in London. I'm trying to read one a month. Here's a description:

Gemma James is adjusting to professional and personal changes that include her eagerly sought promotion to the rank of inspector--and a future now intricately entwined with Duncan Kincaid. But her new responsibilities are put to the test when she is placed in charge of a particularly brutal homicide: The lovely young wife of a wealthy antiques dealer has been found murdered on fashionable Notting Hill. Dawn Arrowood was six weeks pregnant. Her lover, Alex Dunn, a porcelain dealer in London’s bustling Portobello Market, appears absolutely devastated by her death, but Gemma’s the main focus of investigation is soon Karl Arrowood, who had the most powerful motive for killing his unfaithful wife. But this case sets off warning bells for Duncan: it’s far too similar to an unsolved murder in which an antiques dealer was killed in precisely the same way and when the escalating violence claims yet another victim, he and Gemma find themselves at increasing odds with each other--as two separate investigations become linked in the most startling of ways. Their hunt for a killer will traverse the teeming stalls of the city’s antiques markets to a decades-in-the-making vendetta of history and hatred that has been honed to a flawless, deadly point. To solve this case, Gemma and Duncan must walk a merciless razor’s edge through a place where true justice will be a long time coming.

It was published in 2002. The hardcover version that I'm reading has 336 pages. As a side note, I hate book reviews that reveal too much of what is going to happen in the story. I just found out who is going to be killed next in this story and that just spoils the unfolding, darnit.

On tv, we have the final game of the Stanley Cup to watch tonight. And a new show to check out on TLC, The Masters of Reception.

I had lunch today with Robyn, a former boss. Things are really rough at the museum right now and she shows it in the way she carries her body and her whole demeanor. She is in deep emotional pain/bitterness and I felt sorry for her. Lunch itself was nice (I had the muffaletta sandwich) and I hope I got across to her that it's okay to have friends and not everyone has an agenda. Keep your fingers crossed that Jody and I hear good news next week.

It is a beautiful 75 degrees out with white fluffy clouds moving across very blue skies. The weekend is supposed to be the same with a chance of thunderstorm on Sunday. Steve mowed the backyard last night -- it was waaaayyy past due -- so it looks good again but a bit dry compared to the neighbors who consider lawn maintenance a competitive sport.

I remember as a kid, my sister and her friends would slather in oil and lay out all day in their bathing suits ... soaking up those rays, smelling of coconut and wearing sunglasses and flipping over periodically. Back then, of course, the sun wasn't dangerous. And we could ride bikes without helmets. Oh, I won't get going on a rant here, I promise. I don't remember ever really getting into that laying out in the sun thing. Too hot. Wrong body for swimsuits. :)

I don't think we have anything specific planned for this weekend. I guess we'll deal with it as it comes, eh? Enjoy the weekend!

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster