You know, that just sounds weird - "I'm blogging", like a nasty bodily function or something. Anyway, I'm here, I'm blogging and I really have only random thoughts to contribute and probably nothing of substance.
I read alot (I mean alot), so a friend suggested that I keep a blog about what I am reading (I'm not sure why anyone would care, but what the heck). Anything I recommend or don't recommend is based solely on my own strange preferences. I read very quickly and can usually kill a book in a few hours, so I may list a lot of books, but I do have a life, well sometimes. While I read, I usually listen to a wide range of music.
Right now I am really into reading mysteries and listening to Snow Patrol. I LOVE Snow Patrol. My sister-in-law turned me on to the a few years ago. You may have heard "Chasing Cars" which was featured on Grey's Anatomy last season. To hear "Chasing Cars" and other fantastic music you can check Snow Patrol out at www.snowpatrol.com.
They were also on SNL last week. And if you saw the theater preview for the Kevin Costner flick The Guardian, Snow Patrol's Run was the song in the preview.
I am going to see them in concert next week!!! I am so excited. I saw them in September and it was fantastic! Their latest cd "Eyes Open" has my favorite song - Track 7 "Make This Go On Forever". Oh, and "You Could Be Happy" was playing at the beginning of last week's episode of Smallville (the Lana & Lex wedding episode - and oh my God, what an episode!). I am glad the band is getting so much exposure AND that songs other than "Chasing Cars" are being played. Don't get me wrong, I love "Chasing Cars", but they have so many great songs to choose from.
As for reading, I just finished Brigadoom by Susan Goodwill. It's the first in a new mystery series and Ms. Goodwill's first book. It was pretty good, thoroughly enjoyable. I would recommend it to someone looking for a lighthearted mystery. Ms. Goodwill has created some wacky characters, I especially enjoyed the heroine's nutty Aunt, who was a Hollywood starlet back in the day. My only complaint about the book is that the next installment of the series does not come out until March 2008!
After finishing Brigadoom, I moved on to the Rachel Benjamin series by Jennifer Sturman. I finished The Pact last night and will start The Jinx this weekend at some point. In The Pact, Rachel Benjamin tries to figure out who killed her best friend's groom the night before the wedding. Rachel goes back and forth between suspecting no one and suspecting everyone. The book could have been better, Rachel jumps to conclusions that did not actually make a lot of sense to me, but overall the story was interesting. I will give The Jinx a try and then decide whether to continue with the series.
It's been a long week and I am looking forward to curling up with a good book, so next time I will thrill you with a list of some of my favorite silly mysteries - I'm sure you can't wait.
Shel
