Happy Friday, all!

A few people have mentioned The Inheritance Games to me as Westing Game for Grown Ups, but a post from Beyond the Bookends finally made me dredge the book out of the wastes of my TBR pile– and I’m so glad I did.  Think Maureen Johnson’s Truly Devious crossed with the Westing Game with a soupcon of Knives Out.  I’ve already got Book II queued up, although I’m debating whether I read it straight away or save it for when I need a boost.

In the meantime, I revisited the last in Laurie King’s Kate Martinelli series, The Art of Detection.  I’ve always loved that she has her two long-running series collide in this book: the Holmesiana of the Holmes and Russell books meeting San Francisco detective Kate Martinelli.  What I’d forgotten is that it’s a very bad idea to reread the last book in a series when you haven’t read any of the series in roughly a decade, and you know you’re supposed to know who everyone is, but you can’t really remember.  So at some point I need to do a Martinelli re-read from the beginning because although ten years ago sometimes feels very close, it really isn’t.

What have you been reading this week?

p.s. in other news, this year’s Pinkorama (aka Pink Carnation Peep Diorama Contest) is finally up and running!  If you have Peeps and the urge to make a sugary literary diorama, just check out the instructions here!