Hit the Library Today

I had ordered a bunch of books through the online library system and one of them came in today so while picking it up I decided to see what the local branch had to offer inside. I picked up 5 books total.

The Duke and I by Julia Quinn, a romance novel recommended by the Smart Bitches,Trashy Books web site. Yes, I'm getting into romance novels because they're FUN! And fun is good!

Number 2 is the first book whose spine caught my eye in the fiction section: Mailman by J. Robert Lennon. Don't know anything about the book or the author but the jacket tells about a mailman who reads other people's mail, has a disastrous marriage, a "sexually ambiguous entanglement with his melodramatic sister" (there's weird, for ya) and something about attempting to reform Kazakhstan's postal system. Say, isn't that in a whole 'nother country?

Third book is Buckingham Palace Gardens, a Thomas and Charlotte Pitt novel by Anne Perry. My mom reads these Victorian mystery novels and since that's what she has scattered all over her house, I got into reading them too. I'm pretty sure I've missed a couple earlier ones, but this is what my tiny library branch had.

Fourth book is a science fiction novel called Harmony by C. F. Bentley. No idea what it's really about but it was one of the few SF novels on the half-shelf devoted to SF. The Lincoln library used to carry more. Not looking good, it's really filling up with paperback romance novels (could be a good thing except for sacrificing the SF!). Thank goodness for the online ordering system!

Last book is another fiction and happens to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. I don't have as much respect for the Nobel as I used to, but we won't get into that now. It's Somersault by Kenzaburo Oe. I have no idea if it was written in Japanese and then translated into English or written in English. The story has something to do with an apocalypse. I'm hoping it's interesting.

I am currently reading a short, mediocre mystery I borrowed from Uncle Louie. The hero (I need a lesser description, this guy is kind of dull) is some strange character with a huge mustache and 2 Siamese cats living in a place called Pickax. I may as well get that done so I can get into the heavy reading next. Then I'll start posting reviews.

(edited for grammar and adding a link)