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Bethanne Patrick

The Unexpected Read
April 3, 2008

I've had a number of deadlines in the past few weeks and I haven't been reading at my usual (freakish) pace. I have finished a couple of fun books I'd been saving for a vacation (which never came), and found myself on Monday evening without a current book.

Naturally, I turned to my nightstand stack first, but nothing in it was appealing. So I turned to my stack of fresh galleys, and pulled one out (an advance reader's copy, to be specific) because it had an interesting cover.

Yes, sometimes I'm that shallow.

Anyway, while I won't give details on this book since it doesn't come out until June, I was hooked from the first page. It's not my usual thing at all: it's a location-based police procedural with tons of "characters." Who knew?

What was your most recent "unexpected read?"

Posted by Bethanne Patrick on April 3, 2008 | Comments (4)

April 3, 2008
In response to: The Unexpected Read
Dan Blank commented:

Does the back of a cereal box count? Or staring at the same poster on the train for 20 minutes? I need to carry more books with me!

April 3, 2008
In response to: The Unexpected Read
Amy Wachspress commented:

I have been too busy lately to read your blog regularly, but tuned in this morning and love the idea of an unexpected read. Because I just had one. A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban. This is a mid-grade children's book. It won a Cybil and I wanted to see what it was, so checked it out of the library. What uproarious fun. And Urban says she learned everything she knows about writing books during her tenure as a salesperson in an independent bookstore.

April 3, 2008
In response to: The Unexpected Read
Kate Kelly commented:

Cannot wait for the "reveal." Don't forget to tell us!

April 3, 2008
In response to: The Unexpected Read
Debbie commented:

I just read "Mistaken Identity," the book about the two girls who were identified incorrectly at the scene of an accident and for more than 5 weeks one set of parents took care of their "daughter" while the other parents buried their "daughter"....only to find out the girls had been switched. I am NOT a crier....and I teared up 100 times while reading this book. Very touching and still very hard to imagine how this could happen!!