The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. I was prepared to not like this novel. It’s popular, the author set out to write a best seller and it’s very dark. But I was drawn in and enjoyed it. I have ordered the next one, too.
The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M Auel. The newest novel in the Earth’s Children series. I found that this one was very repetitive within the series and within the novel and there really wasn’t anything new except lots of descriptions of cave paintings.
Between a Rock and a Hot Place: why fifty is not the new thirty by Tracey Jackson. A funny look at what it’s like to be a woman in her fifties. I don’t agree with all of it, but it’s nice to have another’s perspective.
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson. Yup, it’s a good read and very captivating.
The Bucolic Plague: How two Manhattanites became gentlemen farmers by Josh Kilmer-Purcell. This is a great read about how 2 people transformed their lives; the hard work that went into it and about following their dreams. Very funny. Also an examination of perfection and the toll it takes and the impossibility of ever actually reaching it mostly because of how we all perceive perfection differently.
