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My current books are (believe it or not), the Hardy Boys Tower Treasure mystery, and an audiobook called the 1st Ladies Detective Agency (which I heard of from an OPML podcast.)
The Hardy Boys book is nice, but very much a teenage book. Guess I've really outgrown it, but it's fun in a nostalgic way, and it's an easy quick read.
The other book is odd. I can't decide yet whether I like it or not. The writing and characters come out naive, but intelligent. There are simplistic and drawn out parts that seem unrelated to anything and devoid of meaning. But then there are other still simplistic parts where there are these very deep observations put into the simplest of terms. The book is full of enough of them to make the slow parts and simplistic plot worthwhile. And the glimpse at a different world and culture is fascinating. I wonder if anyone else has read this one. It seems to have become rather famous.
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