Acme House o' Books

R is for Ricochet, Sue Grafton. Another wonderful chapter in Kinsey Millhone's life that goes down as smoothly and satisfyingly as comfort food. One question, though: When the HELL is Kinsey going to get a friggin' CELL phone??? She's a P.I. and is always on the move. It's at least 1986 or 1987 now, alphabetically. According to Selling the Cell Phone, "By 1987, cellular telephone subscribers exceeded one million and the airways were crowded." Get with it, girl!! And a great quote:

I could see where owning a cat would render a grownup completely goofy in time."

Am reading:
Brimstone, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Wahoo! Another creepy mystery/thriller starring not-quite-human FBI Special Agent Pendergast.

Next up:
Must finish The Second Assistant, Clare Naylor and Mimi Hare, which I lent to Eric.
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi. Am afraid this is going to lose its place on the list because, besides Brimstone, I got the following books in from the library . . .
The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason.
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, Dean King.
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter, After I quoted this book in an e-mail discussion about bias against smart people, I thought I'd at least try to skim through the actual book.