My children are in middle school, and as part of their language arts classes, they have to read 1000 pages per quarter (for an A) and then write a "stop and write" about each book they read. Carrie and I felt challenged to see how many pages we read per school quarter, also. She does booktalks for the books she reads, so I will try to be better at blogging all the books I read!

Since the beginning of the new quarter, I have read several books. The Rabbit Factory by Marshall Karp was a great read. It is a little intimidating at 632 pages, but don't let that stop you. It is about a couple of LAPD detectives who get called to the scene when Rambo Rabbit is found strangled in the employee area below Familyland. Is it the work of a serial killer or does it have something to do with the fact that Rambo's alternative identity is a convicted pedophile? Written mostly in the first person by Detective Lomax, we also meet his family, his new girlfriend, and get involved in a multi-jurisdictional case which involves shutting down a huge Disney-esque corporation.