Hahahahaha!
When you first walk into our new library, there are some shelves just to the left of the door. I usually walk right past them without looking because… they’re on the left and I don’t shelf surf on my left, for some reason. Also, they’re not really near other books so it seems counterproductive to stop there for some reason. I don’t know… it’s probably just a matter of getting used to the new library or something.
But one day, I stopped to look and one of the sections was devoted to mysteries and front and center was a mystery with “Flamingos” in the title. Wrought-Iron Flamingos, to be precise. I couldn’t resist and into the bag went Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos. It sat on the shelf for a long time before TW picked it up to read. She was amused by it and right about the time I was ready to read it – it disappeared. I couldn’t find it ANYWHERE and I thought it had gone back to the library and had just been left unshelved, or was shelved but not checked in. About the time I was ready to file a “we don’t have this anymore, could you please look on the shelves” request, TW found it hiding in her dresser. Huh.
So, I got to read it after all. And as I started reading, I told TW that this author should write a book about Cockatiels… well hah, she did write a book about cockatiels and both TW and her mom read it a few months ago! TW had not remembered the main character as being the same one in the Flamingo book (which goes a long way toward you understanding how TW reads books, doesn’t it? And also goes a long way toward understanding how TW cannot recognize someone she sees every year at BlogHer Con and talks to almost daily on the internet, doesn’t it?)
Anyway – I loved this book. I loved that Meg was embarrassed at having made the flamingos but embraced the idea after she realized just how many people WANTED them. People love Flamingo yard art, even if they pretend otherwise. I obviously love that Meg is a blacksmith and that she has crazy relatives. It was a fun book and I’m guessing all of her bird related Meg Langslow mysteries are just as fun.