Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Speaking from Among the Bones, by Alan Bradley

Flavia is at it again, and she is in fine form.  Her intellect in this book aptly describes her as "genius" and she is all the more lovable for it.  The best part (worse part)
of the book? The cliff hanger ending!  Now I have to wait until April to find out what happens next! 

Wonderful.

Summary:
hen the tomb of Saint Tancred, the patron saint of Bishop's Lacey, is opened on the five-hundredth anniversary of his death and the body of the missing church organist, Mr. Collicutt, is discovered inside, eleven-year-old amateur detective Flavia de Luce launches her own investigation into his deat - See more at: http://miltonpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/551588039_speaking_from_among_the_bones#sthash.89m8qx7M.dpuf
hen the tomb of Saint Tancred, the patron saint of Bishop's Lacey, is opened on the five-hundredth anniversary of his death and the body of the missing church organist, Mr. Collicutt, is discovered inside, eleven-year-old amateur detective Flavia de Luce launches her own investigation into his deat - See more at: http://miltonpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/551588039_speaking_from_among_the_bones#sthash.89m8qx7M.dpuf
hen the tomb of Saint Tancred, the patron saint of Bishop's Lacey, is opened on the five-hundredth anniversary of his death and the body of the missing church organist, Mr. Collicutt, is discovered inside, eleven-year-old amateur detective Flavia de Luce launches her own investigation into his deat - See more at: http://miltonpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/551588039_speaking_from_among_the_bones#sthash.89m8qx7M.dpuf
hen the tomb of Saint Tancred, the patron saint of Bishop's Lacey, is opened on the five-hundredth anniversary of his death and the body of the missing church organist, Mr. Collicutt, is discovered inside, eleven-year-old amateur detective Flavia de Luce launches her own investigation into his deat - See more at: http://miltonpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/551588039_speaking_from_among_the_bones#sthash.89m8qx7M.dpuf

Triggers, by Robert J. Sawyer

An intriguing story that I was enjoying, but I ran out of time and had to return it. Damn two week loans at the Library. Harrumph. The summer is coming and surely I'll get my hands on it again.  In the meantime, I'll watch for Red Planet Blues.

Summary:
On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin's bullet strikes U.S. President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life. At the same hospital, Canadian researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories. Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac arrest. He has a near-death experience-but the memories that flash through Jerrison's mind are not his memories.                                                                                                                                         

It quickly becomes clear that the electromagnetic pulse generated by the bomb amplified and scrambled Dr. Singh's equipment, allowing a random group of people to access one another's minds. And now one of those people has access to the president's memories-including classified information regarding an upcoming military mission, which, if revealed, could cost countless lives. But the task of determining who has switched memories with whom is a daunting one, particularly when some of the people involved have reasons to lie...