Finished

Special Topics in Calamity Physics. A murder mystery, not university reader. And a pretty good one at that. Haven't really put it down since starting on Thursday night, and it's a solid 514 pages. Apart from quite a bit of (interesting) waffle, it does read like a debut novel (no idea how to define that, you know when you just KNOW?), but at the conclusion it reminded me a little of Twilight meets Agatha Christie and John le Carre - angsty teenage girl with reluctant social skills moves to a little town in the mountains, mingles with the bad crowd, turns all Miss Marple when a death occurs, and discovers and solves some political mystery while she's at it. Totally not doing it justice, but I suggest you give it a go some time. It's got some good, sneaky twists, well-written characters and a (mostly) riveting plot line.

I especially liked this note tucked inside. The handwriting would imply its origins do not lie with the owner of the book who leant it to me, but perhaps a previous owner (it was a second hand purchase). But the writing also looks quite a lot like mine and I have no memory of writing this note at any point in time. It's a mystery.

And that now just leaves Neverwhere, Dune and Little Dorrit from this list, plus Tolkien's Letters from Father Christmas and Robertson's Crimes against Humanity to read before I go back to uni. Next Monday. Of course that's manageable...