I reread "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner for the umpteenth time. I do love this book, so much. There is absolutely nothing I could say about it that hasn't been said a million times before. It's one of my go to books when I need to read something brilliant.
I started watching "Justified", and saw it was based on the short story/novella "Fire in the Hole" by Elmore Leonard. The story first appeared in this collection of short stories by him, "When the Women Come Out to Dance". "Fire in the Hole" was by far the best story in the collection, but I'm glad they didn't kill Boyd Crowder on the show because then I would have been deprived of enjoying the amazing Walton Goggins as Boyd in later episodes. The rest of the stories in this collection were actually pretty good, too, and I'm not a big short story person.
Since I read "Raylan", and "Pronto", and "Fire in the Hole", I finished up the last Raylan book by Leonard, "Riding the Rap". Before I read it I didn't realize that was the last of the Raylan books, I had thought there would be quite a few, and I was so sad to discover Leonard didn't write more. "Riding the Rap" was really good though: Harry, the bookie from "Pronto", is kidnapped by a bunch of knuckleheads who don't really know what they're doing. Luckily Raylan does and he's able to rescue him.
Ah, V. C. Andrews (or whoever is ghostwriting for her these days) is one of my guiltiest guilty pleasures. I stopped reading the stuff the ghostwriter churned out after the Ruby series, but this new series is about the original and great "Flowers in the Attic", so it got my attention. The writing is godawful terrible, and most of it is rechurned stuff from "FITA", but I'm still reading it anyway. Kristin's boyfriend, Kane, discovers Christopher's diary that Kristin has been hiding and wants to finish reading it with her. Up in Kristin's attic. While he wears a blond wig. And asks her to call him "Christopher". Kristin finds none of this odd (hmm...) and they proceed to finish reading the diary. All stuff we know from the original book, only at the end Kristin and Kane figure out that the mysterious wealthy investor rebuilding Foxworth Hall is a wheelchair bound man named William Anderson, and they take the diary to him. He turns out to be---CORY!! Cory didn't die from pneumonia after all, Corrine just dropped him off at the Emergency room and took off, and luckily he was saved. Wow, didn't see that coming.
Carl Hiaasen's always good for some dark humor, and "Skin Tight" was pretty hilarious. Retired PI Mick Stranahan is minding his own business, living out in Biscayne Bay, when a hit man tries to off him. He figures out Dr. Rudy Graveline, a butcher posing as a plastic surgeon, is trying to kill him before he figures out what really happened to Victoria Barletta, a girl he killed during a nose job a few years earlier. Mick doesn't give up easily, and Graveline finds a real nutjob of a killer to go after him. It was really good.
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