Mystery/Thriller Reading Friends discussion

My library Saturday this week was at the main library downtown, heart of the Southern Festival of Books. http://www.humanitiestennessee.org/pr.... I attended the first festival in 1989 and most since (a few were held in Memphis instead of Nashville) and always love the atmosphere and mingling with authors and readers and booksellers.
I missed a few authors I had hope to see, timing was off and panels and talks spread a bit far or at the same time. Perhaps I will make it back tomorrow!
Mainly I found myself listening as authors read from their work, especially enjoyable was a panel on short stories and the beauty of the compact format. Adam Ross (Mr. Peanut) Adam Prince and Claire Vaye Watkins spoke eloquently on the subject.
I was disappointed that Daniel Woodrell was not there for his panel, that panel didn't waste my time, Ron Rash's reading was enjoyable, but it kept me from one I would have liked to see, the author Carolyn J. Brown (A Daring Life: a Biography of Eudora Welty)

and I got my turn for The Casual Vacancy in my weekly haul!

Ann wrote: "and I got my turn for The Casual Vacancy in my weekly haul!"

I'll be interested in how you find this, Ann. I don't think I've reserved it yet so I'd better get cracking. I shudder to think what the queue will be like.

I managed to sneak in and out of the library unmolested, returning two audiobooks that I'd uploaded to listen to at my leisure, and picking up Open and Shut by David Rosenfelt, Extended Family by Patrick Kendrick, and The Coffin Trail: A Lake District Mystery by Martin Edwards. The librarian didn't mention my increasing delinquency with The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny and Robert B. Parker's Fool Me Twice. I just can't return those before I finish them; I'll never get them back! (do you think that will go over in library court?)

Ann wrote: "and I got my turn for The Casual Vacancy in my weekly haul!"

Good grief. I'm number 47 for the sound discs and number 389 for the book.... oh well, I'll have plenty of time to read it when it comes in the day I retire....

Carol: I gave up on the audio library queue for The Casual Vacancy. I figured the CD's would be well worn out before I got to them.

First impressions (from only a couple of pages)The Casual Vacancy is a big fat book, a lot of heft compared to the others I brought home.
It caught me up rather quickly, I am intrigued. I kept picturing the adult Muggles though, we'll see if that fades. ;)

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Good grief. I'm number 47 for the sound discs and number 389 for the book.... oh well, I'll have plenty of time to read it when it comes in the day I retire.... "

Ann, I hope you got back tonight for a second day.