<p>I am reading Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos. I recommend it.</p>
<p>Ooooh, Onward, I liked that book (just finished it). It starts a little slow, but really picks up around page 100. And it is layered, with interesting and complex characters. The core mystery part ended up feeling almost a little superficial to me, I liked the characters (and Swedish culture) so much. Long wait at my library for the next one, I am 143 
on the waiting list.</p>
<p>mafool, I loved her first book Broken For You. Haven’t been able to get through Sing Them Home. I guess I will try again over the holidays.</p>
<p>I really enjoyed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and was very lucky to find the second book in my library. I loved it (all about Lisbeth), and as I couldn’t wait until March for the third to be published, I ordered it from Amazon in UK and read it in 2 days. I was glad the 3rd book has a satisfactory ending because the author, who had planned a series of about 10 books, died suddenly a couple of years ago. I’m now looking for something to enjoy as much as I enjoyed these books.</p>
<p>Everyone except m.s is making such worthy recommendations. I’m rereading Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart. Pure bonbon reading and after that I’ve got the third book in The Dresden Files series.</p>
<p>PS Once you finish Ender’s Game be sure to check out Ender’s Shadow. Loved seeing the whole story from a different point of view.</p>
<p>Also after Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead is the sequel (it won Hugo and Nebula awards, as did Ender’s Game). And Ender’s Shadow is interesting. After that, though, I think Orson Scott Card was just milking the one great idea he ever had and went on far too long with sequels/spin offs. Although I see that he did release a book called A War of Gifts in 2007, which is another Ender Battleschool story, so I just put that on hold at the library.</p>
<p>I also read and very much liked The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and its sequel (although I think the second one could have used quite a bit of editing; the parts not involving Lisbeth went on way too long, in my opinion), and just recently received the third and last one by ordering it from amazon in the UK. Sad that there won’t be any more.</p>
<p>The last six months or so I’ve really felt like I’ve needed to escape, so it’s been escapism for me. No “literature” at all, except for the new Margaret Atwood novel, The Year of the Flood, which I thought was wonderful. Other than that, it’s been mostly mysteries by British authors, set in places like Edinburgh or Yorkshire. (A book set in New York wouldn’t be nearly escapist enough!) So during that time period, I think I’ve read about 20 books by Ian Rankin, a dozen by Peter Robinson (when I find an author I like, I tend to read as many of their books as I can find, one after another), and assorted books by authors such as Michael Connolly (set in L.A.), and my latest discovery, Ruth Rendell.</p>
<p>(For books like that, I’m a very fast reader. And I’ve had a lot of time on my hands on weekends.)</p>
<p>PS: I read the title of “The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt . . . .” much too quickly, and thought for a second that it was “The Big Bum . . . .”</p>