Sunday Salon #1 (38) - 4 January 2009

Hello fellow Sunday Saloners.

Have you had a good start to 2009? Plenty of books to read? Pop over to Smik's Reviews if you need some Crime Fiction suggestions.

This week I've joined

• NaJuReMoNoMo - I've put a little block in the right hand column.
• The Book Review Blog Carnival - there's another block in the right hand column (down at the bottom)
  

Have you given me your top 10 crime fiction reads for 2008 yet? If you haven't there are still a number of hours left for you to do it. Join some of the best crime fiction bloggers in the world with your choices.

My posts for the last week:

• Summing Up my blogging year 2008
  This post talks about what I've done in the last year, some stats, some achievements
• ACRC Update - 2 January 2009
  6 Agatha Christie novels down, only 74 or so to go.
• Review: ACRC#5, THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS, Agatha Christie
  Not really the best of her novels. Here she was still searching for a central detective, and, I think, trying to make up her find which was the most attractive genre.
• 2009 - What Challenges does it hold?
  2 things you can tell me via comments on this post
  * challenges you will participate in or know of
  * your New Year's resolutions
• Review: THE SWEETNESS OF LIFE, Paulus Hochgatterer
  In part THE SWEETNESS OF LIFE is about the solving of a crime, but there are other themes that almost take over: an exploration of the damage done to children by unexpected trauma, by violence and cruelty, and pain inflicted by their parents and their elders.
• Carnival of Criminal Minds #29 - Murder in the Outback
  Why do Australians revel in crime fiction? Is it our convict origins?
• Farewelling 2008
  My summary of the year. Written on New Year's Eve.
• Review: THE FENG SHUI DETECTIVE, Nury Vittachi

Comments and Posts Counters
This week I have added counters in a JavaScript gadget. If you look in the right hand column for Recent Comments, at the bottom of that box you will see the counters.
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Currently Reading

• now - POIROT INVESTIGATES, Agatha Christie
• sometime soon - THE 19TH WIFE, David Ebershoff
• also listening to - CORDUROY MANSIONS, Alexander McCall Smith, ready for ch. 71
• in the car - SEVEN ANCIENT WONDERS, Matthew Reilly

So back to work tomorrow for me. Not sure that I am looking forward to it, but the money keeps me in books.