House Rules
by Jodi Picoult - I read a review on this one when it came out back in March. It is about a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome. He is facinated by and apparently has a knack for forensic analysis, he shows up at crime scenes and tells the police what they need to do...and he's usually right. I had heard of Asperger's syndrome only recently on the television show Parenthood and I wanted to read more about it, and a crime novel seemed like a good way to do that.
I made a mental note to check it out at the library and added it to my To Be Read list on LibraryThing.
Shortly after that, Bonnie of Bonnie's Books announced that her online book club was planning on reading House Rules
and discuss it online. Having never done anything like this before, I decided that sounded like fun, so I put my name on the long waiting list at the library. I figured it would take about a year and the online book discussion would be history, but as anyone who knows me - knows I am too cheap to go out and buy a book! The good news is the local library called to tell me the book was ready for me.
The bad news is I am now halfway through the 1074 PAGE Under the Dome
by Stephen King. The good news is that I am HALFWAY through the 1074 page Under the Dome
by Stephen King. So with this long holiday weekend ahead I can make my way closer to the end of the King novel, and hopefully start soon on House Rules
. The pressure is on, hey - I thought this reading thing was supposed to be relaxing! Wish me luck. And, Bonnie, what about better late than never?
