I impressed myself by reading six books this week. This may seem like my usual average, but you have to take into account that we threw Punkinhead's graduation party last Saturday and spent a whole day "company cleaning" the house, so six is pretty good.
I really liked Charles Todd's A Duty to the Dead featuring Bess Crawford as a WWI nurse, but top honors this week go to Ayelet Waldman. I've been reading her Mommy-Track mystery series the same way I sneak gumdrops from the candy dish. Death Gets a Time Out is the one I finished this week, and it was suitably complicated (I didn't guess the answer.) and not too angsty which was her tendency early-on in the series. Maybe I'm completely lacking in empathy (not impossible --ask my kid), but I never worried as much as her mommy, Juliet Applebaum, does. I'm also far enough away from the toddler period (see above reference to graduation) that I can remember that time fondly. At any rate, Juliet is getting more sleep by book three and the mystery is a bit juicier. Candy-read for summertime. Yum.
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