We love the Ladies #1 Detective Agency (and we prefer it on audio) so I thought it would be fun to grab The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe’s First Case on audio. And, it was fun. The voices weren’t “right” and it tries a little too hard to be a “teaching” book – re-pronouncing “hard” names, stuff like that. I’m guessing Alexander McCall Smith may not really know any 8-10 year olds? But it was fun. A lot of fun for fans of Precious Ramotswe (and the great Obed Ramotswe).
Riordan’s The Mark of Athena was excellent. I’ve had some trouble really getting into the Greeks vs Romans or Greeks + Romans series but book three has helped a good bit with that. I’m falling into the flow of it and getting comfortable with the Romans. Poor Annabeth. Poor Leo. Poor everyone, pretty much. No happy ending quest in this book, which is a big change and now we have to wait how long for the next one? (Well maybe not that long since this book has been out for awhile and I’ve just now gotten around to reading it, lol. October 2013… I can wait that long and read it at this time next year!)