The Very Last Gambado by Jonathan Gash

Antiques and women, being passion, are the only living things you can depend on.  Trouble is, they come with this other stuff called crime.    --Lovejoy

Thus begins the latest read in my quest to re-read all the Lovejoy books until I reach the ones I have not yet read. 

In this novel, a movie crew has come to town to film a story about the robbing of the British Museum and hired Lovejoy to be its antiques expert.  What's the problem?  Well, the museum has never been robbed and all possible plots can be foiled.  Can Lovejoy come up with a plan?  And why do they need him anyway?  Could this be the first successful robbery of the beloved institution, the "very last gambado?"  Join Lovejoy on his first adventure with Hollywood.

Rereading Laurie R. King

I have decided to reread Laurie R. King's Sherlock Holmes/Mary Russell books - but I am cheating!  I am listening to the books.  I just finished her first Holmes/Russell book - The Beekeeper's Apprentice. I recommend it highly.  Mary Russell is a teenager when she first meets her neighbor Sherlock Holmes.  When the two of them match wits, Holmes finds that this young woman is his intellectual match.  He soon begins teaching her the tricks of his trade and the two work together to solve their first case: who is trying to kill them and why?  I never read any of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books, yet I find this series to be a wonderful read.  You might also like to read The God of the Hive reviewed previously.

Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros

Caramelo is the story of three generations of a family told in truths, half-truths, and outright lies and seen through the eyes and ears of young Celaya or "Lala."  The book is Cisnero's first novel since The House on Mango Street, a book I found to be much more fun to read than this one.  The book has a lot of Spanish in it and I grew tired of looking up the words.  I do recommend the book, but not as highly as I recommended Mango Street.  If you are interested, I also read and reviewed Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek in an earlier post.

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