What I've Read in 2007

Nine out of the seventeen books I have read since January 2007 were ARC copies not all of which were read in a timely fashion!

1. Second Glance (Jodi Picoult) Recommended by the author
2. The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield) ARC
3. The Case of the Missing Books (Ian Sanson) ARC
4. Devil's Corner (Lisa Scottoline) Book Expo America
5. Nerve Damage (Peter Abrahams) ARC
6. Ecstacy (Beth Saulier) ARC
7. Suite Francaise (Irene Nemirovsky) Multiple Reviews
8. City of Fire (Robert Ellis) ARC
9. Self Storage (Gayle Brandeis) ARC
10. Died in the Wool (Rett MacPherson) Guilty Pleasure
11. The Mistress' Daughter (A.M. Homes) ARC
12. In the Woods (Tana French) ARC
13. How to Hepburn (Karen Karbo) Entertainment Weekly
14. What You Have Left (Will Allison) ARC
15. The Locked Room (Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo) Canadian Bookstore
16. Vanishing Acts (Jodi Picoult) Recorded Books
17. Death in a Strange Country (Donna Leon) Canadian Bookstore

The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin

I have been one of the fortunate people with access to the wonderful ARCs (advanced reading copies) provided by Baker & Taylor to those of us in the library world. All that has ended. Oh, I still have quite a stash to choose from, but in several months I will retire and have all the time in the world to read again. What will I do as the piles of 'to be read' stacks begin to dwindle?

Two days ago I finished Ian Rankin's newest title The Naming of the Dead. This is one of the authors that I have always meant to get around to reading. It turns out that this is one of his best and number sixteen in the Inspector Rebus group. He endeared himself to me with references to Steely Dan and their album Two Against Nature.