What are you reading the week of December 23, 2012?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. "Snow Angels" was fascinating but unpleasant in many ways

It made me NOT want to live in northern Finland, where evidently everyone is either an alcoholic or a religious fundamentalist or mentally unbalanced or all of the above. The main character is a native of the region, but we see the strangeness of the culture through his American wife. The murders are on the gruesome side, too.

"Talking to the Dead" was an interesting look inside the mind of an effective but eccentric policewoman.

Now I've started "Mind's Eye" by Håkan Nesser. It's one of the Van Veeteren series, some of which were made into a Swedish TV series shown on MHz Worldview. That's my new purse book.

My new bedside book is a Peter Lovesey mystery "Skeleton Hill." I chose it because it takes place in Bath, England.

I also have a kitchen table book: "Don't Know Much About Geography," which I picked up at a used book sale.