To Die For, Joyce Maynard

On one hand, this novel kept me up all night because I couldn't stop reading it. On the other, my judgment tends to be impaired when I don't get enough sleep. Here is what I can tell you about this book:

It is told from many points of view, like interviews or something. A young woman who wants to be a reporter has an affair with a high-school kid and convinces him to kill her husband. At least, that's what she's accused of. She maintains her innocence, of course. The story that takes shape is of a very disturbed young woman who many people are infatuated with.

The afterword from the author, explaining her reasons for writing the novel, is something I should have avoided because it is annoying.

The Moon & I, Betsy Byars

This book is kind of a memoir and kind of a story about meeting a snake on your porch. It was a fun, fast read.

The Blair Witch Files: The Dark Room, "Cade Merrill"

Apparently after the movie came out there was a tie-in series of YA books. I've never come across any others.

The premise is that Heather Donohue's cousin has started a website and is trying to figure out what happened to her. In this book he meets a young photographer, and her pictures have scenes from the past on them, but only in the darkroom, and only before the images are fixed. it is all very silly.

There is a contest in the back: "Win a trip to the set of Blair Witch 3!" Some kid must have been pretty pissed off.

Doc Savage: the Annihilist, Kenneth Robeson

Not all of the dead crooks were persons who had committed heinous crimes. One man had been beating his wife when he fell dead with his eyes sticking out.

1934, folks!

Until I came upon that passage, I was sort of enjoying the ridiculousness of this one.

Something is causing crooks to drop dead with their eyes bulging out. This especially happens when they are about to kill someone. There is a tough cop after Doc Savage. And yet ANOTHER person or group of people is killing Savage's associates.

Bushman Lives!, Daniel Pinkwater

Daniel Pinkwater, you are getting on my nerves.

Okay, instead of more adventures of the main character from the last novel, we are confronted with Harold Knishke, who is the star of a folk song he didn't know about. Harold wants to be an artist. Also, a character from the last book has a peripheral role.

Many of Pinkwater's favorite characters show up. And the book does not have an ending.

I am not shitting you, the story does not conclude, the book just stops. It was like he figured 248 pages was enough and.

Lost & Found, Carolyn Parkhurst

This novel is about a bunch of people who go on a reality show. I think I liked it but I really can't remember much about it. So, not very memorable.

Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You, Dorian Cirrone

Kayla wants to be a ballerina, but her breasts are too big. She's in high school, and this is pretty much all the book is about. It's not a bad book, though.