an open book

I'm finally into my book, Christine Falls by John Banville, writing under the nom de plume Benjamin Black. Now this is noir...foggy city streets, manly men with drinking problems and sordid pasts, and the wily damsels that somehow surprise even though we knew they were hiding something all along. I admit it took some time to get into, and really it's not knocking my socks off. But I can't blame it, it's a tough act to follow after the stellar The Reader and it had formerly seemed like yet another disappointment. Instead, it's currently ranking at about a B.

Kara reminded me of my ongoing book organization - I don't bother with authors/genres to organize (and I tend to mentally categorize them by the order in which I read them anyway) - I go by color, so the spines in similar color families are grouped together. I spend more time looking at the bookcase than I do searching for particular books, and I know them well anyway, so I don't find it all inconvenient. Instead, I think it's purdy.

Now, the BIG issue at hand here is: which books to bring on vacation? I think Angels & Demons might be a good beach book, and timely considering the movie will be out soon... but I'm open to suggestions. Thoughts?