Books o' the Month: Too many to list in the title!

Let's start with Carbonel: The King of Cats, a children's book first published in 1955.  I have been reading this, a chapter a night, to my kiddos.  I would recommend it for ages 5-10 (and older).  Not scary or violent (besides a bit of a fight at the end), set in London, with adventure, magic, and...cats!  This is the first of a trilogy, and we are reading the second book now so, more to come.

I finished another Diana Gabaldon book, Lord John and the Hand of Devils.  Lord John, a minor Outlander character, solves more mysteries, and I get a little more insight into the epic story Gabaldon has created.

Ghost Cars on the Freeway is a special little book about Crowded House by Peter Green.  You have to be a member of the fan club, Frenz of the Enz, to get it.  Being a Neil Finn fan, this book was a lot of fun to read. I am still regretting the missed opportunity I had of seeing CH back in 1989.  Ah well...I saw the new lineup in '07 and '10.  Mr. Finn has been working on a new album, I hear, so hopefully there will be another chance to catch the music live in the next year or two!

This novel was quite a departure for me.  I have been reading a lot of books with female leads (besides the Lord John novels) in the past few years, but the main character of Grab onto Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way, by Bryan Charles (who happens to be a survivor of the Twin Towers terrorist attack)  is a seventeen/eighteen-year-old young man.  The novel takes place in 1992, and there are a lot of musical references I can relate to.  The style of writing is modern with several stream of consciousness passages (I may have my terms wrong--it's been many years since I was in an English Lit. class!) which was refreshing to read.  And quick!  I am so used to reading uber-long novels, that anything under three hundred pages) feels short to me now.

I am a day late...but please zip on over to Some of a Kind to see what the other ladies of Turn the Page ... Tuesday have been reading!