What are you reading the week of July 13,2014? [View all]

I finished In the Woods by Tana French yesterday. It is a good read but this lady seems to like to finish on an unresolved chord or two. I don't get the impression that she will return to that in a sequel but that she believes that not all of life's questions have answers.

Anyway, I was without a book to read when I took my sweetie to get a hair cut. In the car was a tattered copy of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I picked it up and read 16 pages by the time my wife's locks were shorn (she gets a really short cut). We went to eat and stopped by a book store where the only book to catch my eye was another by Ms. French. I wasn't ready for that and so I am continuing to read Hunger Games.

It is a fast read but I am captivated by the characters. In a novel character development is number 1 with me. I want the story told through characters that are believable and bring out an emotional response in me. It doesn't matter if I love or hate them but if my response is tepid the book goes down.

So at page 66 I am off and running in this youth/young adult novel.