I'm reading 'The Outcast Dead' by Elly Griffiths.

My reading time has been taken up with learning to read music (badly) and practicing guitar. It's been years since I played and never had any real training-last night I got though the 1st of Segovia's scale studies. I had to rewrite it in standard notation as well as tabulate because the master makes use of the whole neck and all the fingers. I was getting lost. Well this is one way to keep the brain functioning.

On to the last book of the space opera.

And yes, I've read most of the Dirk Pitt books and a collection of books in the other series. Perfect vacation reading.

I just finished The Pillars of the Earth last night. Tonight I will start Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver.

It's the 5th book of his Ann Lindell series (she's a Stockholm police detective) and they've all been first rate police procedurals.

I've not read any Clive Cussler.

find themselves in impossibly dangerous situations that they always find a way out of. You might say Clive's plots are far-fetched. But, if you relax and go with the flow they keep you entertained.

Robert Galbraith, pseudonym for JK Rowling. Loved her detective, Cormoran Strike. Looking forward to her second book.

A Harry Bosch book by Michael Connelly.