Finally tripped on the summer book that I listened to and forgot, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson, 2011. With a title like that, no wonder I forgot. It was pretty good, if a bit long to listen to. An American ambassador in Berlin during Hitler’s rise. Interested to read about Berlin as beautiful.

Listened to the first of Tess Geritsen’s myteries this week, The Surgeon, because I’ve been watching the TV show. Book is too bloody and gruesome for me, I skipped over all the guts and blood parts. Don’t think I’ll read any more of her books. It’s a good enough mystery, just too gory for me.

Just started The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt, 2011. Not sure about it, but it seems alright so far. Set in 1851 right in the middle of the California gold rush, the story of two infamous brothers Charlie and Eli Sisters who set out on a mission by the commodore from Oregon City to apprehend and kill Hermann Kermit Warm.

Just about finished John Lawton’s book, Old Flames, and it’s very good. I do like his writing very much.

Just started a good memoir by Gail Caldwell, Let’s Take the Long Way Home, 2011. She is writing about her friendship with Caroline Knapp – who wrote A Pack of Two – a book I bought a long time ago, because she was a drinker and a dog lover. This is a very good book.