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Originally Posted by lila55

A couple of weeks ago I finished "The Curse of the Pharaos" by Elizabeth Peters, also taking place in Egypt for the most part. It reminds me of some Agatha Christie books and has a lovely, somewhat biting humor.

Thanks for the review. I just bought an omnibus of the first 4 books (Pharaohs is the second book I think) for an insanely low price. I'll move this up my to-be-read-in-front-of-a-fire-on-a-rainy-spring-day list.

I, and most of my bookclub, gave up halfway on The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. It was a skimfest and felt like being trapped by that long-winded guy at a party who tells the same boring stories over and over. I did better with A Tale of Two Cities, but Dickens isn't my cup of tea. Going Bovine by Libba Bray is our next selection and so far it's an amusing YA tale and the voice of the aimless teenage boy who tells the story is pitch perfect.

I finished listening to Defending Jacob by William Landay, a slow paced novel set in the courtroom that reminded me of Perry Mason and was almost as predictable (not all bad, since I like Perry Mason). Next up on my iPod Touch is Watchers by Dean Koontz, loving the dog so far.