What's On Your Bookshelf

I have noticed recently that people are fond of participating in Book Meme thingy-bobs. I too participated, but refrained from posting my results. Of 100 books on one list, I had read 71. That number should really be higher than 71 because technically the Chronicles of Narnia are more than one book. Most of the titles that I checked off are ones that I read before I turned 25.

The exercise made me want to start my own book list--What's On Your Bookshelf? This would be a list of books that you have read in the past three months. My list would look something like this.

1. Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres. A raw memoir of a girl who grew up in a whacky world of fundamentalism gone awry.
2. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, essays by David Sederis.
3. Best Friends by Martha Moody
4. Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman
5. When Katie Wakes by Connie May Fowler. Another autobiography.
6. The Book of Jeremiah
7. Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell

These are just books that I have read recently that I can REMEMBER. I have been known to read a book and promptly forget the main character's name and everything else about it.

One of my favorite books of all time is, Surprise Party by William Katz. As books go, I think it is fairly obscure, but it twists and somersaults its way to the best "who-dun-it" endings that I can recall. ("Recall" being the operative word.)

I liked it so much when I first read it that I bought a copy and sent it to my dearest friend, Ronda. It was before Amazon.com. I had to actually order it over the counter at Walden Books.

Amazon link to Surprise Party by William Katz