SINGAGAIN's slow crawl to 50 in 2010...

[Carol]

Well, here goes...off to a late start, but I finally made it to the gate...

1. Plum Pudding Murder by Joanne Fluke

[Laurie]

Congrats & good luck!

[Carol]

Thanks, Laurie. are you Kwiltreader?

[Laurie]

Nope, not that one.

[Carol]

Well, thank you anyway. I notice that you are from Memphis...I would like to talk to you about that...off this thread.

[Carol]

I am just about to start reading Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. It is the monthly book read in Koontzland, perhaps you'd like to join us...anyone?

[Melissa]

I read Odd Thomas last year. I didn't love it. Did you finish yet? What did you think?

[Carol]

Melissa, I HAVE finished Odd Thomas and I have started on the next one, Forever Odd...This is a character that kind of grows on you and I have caught myself thinking several times, 'Oh, to be twenty again!' He's just...a nice, nice boy. I was disappointed in the events at the end of the story, but I don't think the storyline was inappropriate, and it is carried on in the next book along with mention of some of the other characters.

Very smooth and easy reading. Also I just realized that one thing I like about that book, and that I expect to find in the future sequels, is that even with a lot of description the action is not hard to understand or follow. This series has a lot of dialog, maybe that has something to do with it.

[Carol]

1. Plum Pudding Murder - Joanne Fluke - 2008
2. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz - 1st in Odd series 2003
3. Forever Odd by Dean Koontz - 2nd in Odd series 2005
4. Brother Odd - 3rd in Odd Series 2006
5. Odd Hours by Dean Koontz - 4th in Odd series - 2008
6. The Cat Next Door - Marion Babson - yr?
7. Locked In - Marcia Muller 2008 or 2009

Currently Reading - checked out of the library
Biography of Johnny Depp
Spellman Files - 1st in series
Lightning - Koontzland March read
Julie and Julia -

To Read - same batch
Novel by Kathy Reichs
Soccer mom demon hunter
Novel by Mary Daheim - latest?
206 Bones - Kathy Reichs
Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
These will probably become due before I can get to them, so I will have to start over for another 6 weeks. I'm finding more time to read, though, than I thought I would have...so maybe I can do 50 before Dec. 31st.

[Melissa]

I'm going to give the Odd Thomas series another chance. And by the way, you have made incredible progress with your 50 books!