_Executive Privilege_ by Philip Margolin. I don't know--something was just off with this one. A little to easy to predict, a little too much brilliance on the part of the good guys, something. Maybe it was that only one major character is being severely menaced when, with the setup, you'd expect all of them to.
_Alanna: The First Adventure_ by Tamora Pierce. Twins switching places! Girl pretending to be boy in order to do boy things! Befriending by the King of Thieves! Ancient cities of ineffable evil! Who could ever think of such things! Ok, It was fun, anyway, for a kid's fantasy book. I'd wait until I'd finished the cycle of books before posting them together, but I'm coming to the end of my "book year."
_All the Flowers Are Dead_ by Lawrence Block. Matt Scudder
remains a dark and brutal read. I'm of two minds about Block's reading. I think
it's great for an extended bookstore reading but too overall flat to carry the
entire unabridged recording. But Scudder is such a flattened person that it
fits for the ...first person sections beautifully. Not so much for the villian
point of views, though.
_The Moon and the Sun_
by Vonda N McIntyre. I know it won the Nebula in '97, but it
didn't seem that special to me--a historical romance with a mermaid thrown
in.
_Daja's Book_ and
_Briar's Book_ by Tamora Pierce. I enjoy listening to the Full Cast
Audio productions of kids/YA novels. The do a nice job.
_Death by Hollywood_ by
Steven Bochco. An odd duck of a book.
The overall structure is much
like an extended pitch for a screen-play--which may have been its
start--but told from a distant point of view, a bit Tom Jones-ish, with
extended musings on thehuman condition inserted right before action that
illustrates
them.
Also embedded are a number of self-referential bits and an
almost complete short story, ala Garp. I expected plot twists from Bochco, and
the but not the literary playfulness.
_Moving Mars_ by Greg
Bear. Big idea book, big move. And again, Mars is revolting as in just about
every SF thing with Mars in it.