APRIL READING

Our numbers for the month of April...

12 people
51 books
14977 pages




FV                    HP                    MC
4 people           2 people           6 people
20 books          8 books            23 books
6806 pages      2640 page        5531 pages


Some of the books we read are...

The Map Thief by Michael Blanding
The High Window by Raymond Chandler
Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr
Blue Labyrinth by Preston & Child
Master Thieves by Stephen Kurkjian
Dead Man's Chest by Kerry Greenwood
Priscilla & Babe: From Slavery's Shackles to Millionaire Bordello Madams in Victorian St Louis by Julius Hunter
The Mockingbird Next Door by Marja Mills
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
Bitter Medicine by Sara Paretsky
Guardian Angel by Sara Paretsky
Blood on the Water by Anne Perry
Cemetery Yew by Cynthia Riggs
Poison Ivy by Cynthia Riggs
Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekback
The Affair by Lee Child
The Bees by Laline Paull
A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear
Remember Me Like This by Bret Anthony Johnston
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Mr Mercedes by Stephen King
Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich
The Third Gate by Lincoln Child
Marjorie's Story of Her Father, Her Mother, and Her Own Early Years by Marjorie Scott
The Quick by Lauren Owen
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Pity the Billionaire by Thomas Frank
As chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley
Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman
The Song Forever New by Paul chilcote
The Paradox of Generosity by Christian Smith and Hilary Davidson
Churchless by George Barna and David Kinnaman
The Middle Ages by Johannes Fried
Calico Joe by John Grisham
Murder with Puffins by Donna Andrews
Arsenic and Old Books by Miranda James
Whiplash by Catherine Coulter
Emma by Alexander McCall Smith
Double Fudge Brownie Murder by Joanne Fluke
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Scarlet by Miranda Meyer
Cress by Miranda Meyer
Gabriel: A Poem by Edward Hirsch
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Small Hours by Illyse Kusnetz

Trigger Warning

by Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman has been one of my favorite authors since I read his very dark Sandman graphic series years ago on my son's advice. I loved his novels American Gods and Anansi Boys, and some of his young adult novels including the prize-winning The Graveyard Book. Maybe it was the hype and expectations, but I was a bit disappointed in his more recent award-winner, The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Don't get me wrong, it was a good story, well-written, it just seemed a bit thin, like a long short story rather than a short novel. With all that background, I wasn't quite sure what to expect from Trigger Warning, his latest collection of short stories. Well, I  wasn't disappointed. The stories are all different, all interesting, all with unexpected twists. I particularly liked the one about un-inventing things, and the Doctor Who story, and the Sherlock Holmes story...well, all them.