My Library Checkout — May 2017

Have you been using your library over the past month? What did you read? What didn’t you read? What are you waiting on? The linky goes up the last Monday of every month, and will stay open through the 15th, so click the button at left to go to Charleen’s post for this month to add your Library Checkout post to the linky there.

Read

1. Double Whammy, the first in the Skink series, by Carl Hiaasen
2. Blood on Snow, the first in the Blood on Snow series, by Jo Nesbø
3. Midnight Sun, the second in that same series, also by Nesbø, which I should finish today or tomorrow and will count for May.

I was planning to read more Hiaasen and also fellow Floridian Tim Dorsey, but then decided I just couldn’t do it as you can see below. As for the Nesbø books, I decided to re-try them after a patron said they were really good. I like Nesbø, but these didn’t grab me when they first came out.

Since I haven’t finished Midnight Sun as of this draft, out of the three, I’ll say that my favorite of the three was Blood on Snow. I also enjoyed Nesbø’s short stand-alone novel Headhunters and the movie on which it was based.

DNF’d

1. The Stingray Shuffle, the fifth in the Serge Storm series, by Tim Dorsey
2. Hide & Seek, the second in the Inspector Rebus series, by Ian Rankin
3. The Gingerbread House, the first in the Hammarby series, by Carin Gerhardsen

Returned unread

1. The League of Frightened Men, the second in the Nero Wolfe series, by Rex Stout
2. Native Tongue, the second in the Skink series, by Carl Hiaasen
3. The Thirst, the 11th in the Harry Hole series, by Jo Nesbø
4. The Inner Life of Cats : The Science and Secrets of Our Mysterious Feline Companions by Thomas McNamee

Yes, I like Nesbø, as noted above, but I’m having a hard time focusing right now and the promise of multiple stories in the synopses I’ve seen didn’t appeal to me this month. I’m sure I’ll read it eventually, but just not in the near future. I skimmed the cat book, but was lukewarm about it and the second Nero Wolfe, I just wasn’t in the mood for at the moment.

Currently Out

Nada except for Midnight Sun, if I haven’t finished it by the time you read this.

On Hold

1. Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
2. The Lost Book of the Grail by Charlie Lovett, as recommended by Tasha of Truth, Beauty, Freedom & Books.

What did you check out from the library this past month, put on hold, return unread, did not finish? Click on the button above to go to Charleen’s post to add your own post, or comment there — and here, if you’d like.