Okay, so there were only three comments and two were definitely ready for the new book, one was on the fence. So I will go ahead and announce it and then you can read it when you get the chance.
I live in the warm and nearly-always sunny Southern California. We don't have winter here. I've experienced winter and I really wasn't a fan. That's why I live 10 miles from the ocean.
But when I thought about the fact that my month was January, I thought about what types of books might be better read when temperatures have dipped and you just want to cuddle up with a blanket and a warm cup of cocoa and get lost in a good story.
And so I looked for winter-type books. Something that would remind me that there are places that have that sort of thing.
That was my motivation for selecting:
From Barnes & Noble:
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime...It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy's body is still warm, the police pronounce his death an accident. But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn't fall from the roof on his own. Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow. For her dead neighbor, and for herself, she must embark on a harrowing journey of lies, revelation and violence that will take her back to the world of ice and snow from which she comes, where an explosive secret waits beneath the ice....
I hope this sounds okay to all of you. I'm pretty excited about it. I'm always done for a mystery and this one came fairly highly recommended.
