Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a book? Cookie Boyle did, and wrote an absolutely delightful novel called Entitled. Told from the perspective of the book The Serendipity of Snow, we travel along as the book is passed around, or left behind, travels to foreign countries, and finally, meets up with her author! I love how the author had each book have a different personality depending on the subject. A Western has a drawl, and a hard edged crime book a tough New York accent. An unabridged dictionary provides longer answer than a pocket version, and the travel book knows that, sadly, he will soon be out of date (yes, each book has a gender, too). If you like a bit of quirky-ness to what you read, give this a try.

In the next Rosa Reed Mystery, Murder on Location, by Lee Strauss, Norm Strauss, and Denise Jaden, Rosa finds herself on the set of a movie. It's a Western and she and her cousin have signed on as extras. Movie work is not as exciting as they thought, there's lots of standing around and waiting and Rosa almost wishes she was sitting in her office, where she could at least be in comfortable clothes and reading a book. Then one of lead actors is shot. With a prop gun.

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