Month: July 2009

I was on a Bones kick last week and I noticed in the opening credits that the series was inspired by a series of novels written by Kathy Reichs. So I hit one of my favorite places on the web — the Monterey library website. Less than 24 hours later, I dove into the book that started it all “Deja Dead.” Personality-wise, the TV show is a pretty good translation of Dr. Temperance Brennan, but I’m missing Seely Booth and the rest of the squints. All of her work relationships were adversarial, so there wasn’t the camaraderie and teamwork that I enjoy in the show.

I’m going out on a limb and *guessing* that the dynamic of “woman fights government bureaucracy and sexism to solve crimes” will probably be repeated in further books, but I hope Kathy gets her a Seely type partner soon.

One thing I REALLY liked about the book that I don’t see in a lot of novels is that Reichs paints really vivid word pictures that instantly bring me there. “Hair the color of unbrushed teeth, burred in the front and long in the back” or “his chicken-white skin was moving toward grenadine” are just 2 of my favorites.

“His bony legs were cobwebbed by varicose veins, and looked as if the pasty, white skin had been stretched over knots of spaghetti.” Now I’m not known for reading the deepest of books, but I appreciated the extra work this author went to to make sure I saw exactly what she saw.

Next up: Death DuJour — already waiting for me at the library!

I finished “Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy.” I should be embarassed, but I’m kind of hoping that the library buys her most recent release (just last month) titled, “Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover.” :crossed fingers: Fun book, totally requires a suspension of disbelief, but made me smile as I read it.

Now I’m reading Tori Spelling’s “Mommywood.” I really like how she seems like a REAL person who just happens to be famous. And how she actually very normal in spite of it (and her messed up mom). I’m only 3 chapters in, but her description of how as a new mom she had to change a poopy swim diaper at the pool (during swim lessons) in front of other moms and she felt totally useless and finally shoved the mess into her diaper bag was pretty funny.

I’m going to have to start figuring out which categories I’ve finished, which ones I’m close to completing, and which books I have to cram into a particular category. (I don’t think I can find 5 “spy girl” books — maybe I’ll read the Twilight books and create a Teen Reading category. I’ll have to ask Patrick and Carrie if it’s worth getting sucked into the vampire craze.