[  Mood: Sleepy ]
[  Currently: Listening to CBC Radio ]
Janet Evanovich has been at the Stephanie Plum series for awhile. This installment finds Stephanie split three ways. She is helping Ranger hunt down the person (or persons) who have been burgling clents of his security business. Lulu has also witnessed a murder and needs Stephanie’s help hiding from the perpetrators. Meanwhile, Stephnaie still works for her cousin Vinnie’s bond business and she has skips to catch or he will replace with her arch-nemesis, Joyce Barnhardt.

As the title says, this is installment fifteen of the series, and while Stephanie is still fresh, some of the secondary characters are getting past there best before date. Lulu is especially getting dated. A charactature to begin with, she has devolved into stereotype, and not a flattering one at that. It is really time for Evanovich to retire Lulu for a few books, or maybe have her evolve and grow a bit. Ethier that or kill her, cause she is beginning to rub the wrong way.

And that is what makes this novel less entertaining than it should be. By giving Lulu such a parominent role in the plot, Evanovich has really shoved her in our face. She is always there and we get sick of her. Given that these books are supposed to be comedic mysteries, having a character that gets on your nerves takes way from the laughter.

[  Mood: Shocked ]
[ Currently: Getting ready for bed. ]
So I feel the need today to drag out my little soapbox and take a little stand.

I really don’t care who you are or how creatively brilliant you are, drugging and raping a 13 year-old girl is not excuseable.

And you think that this would be something that we as a society would be clear on, but I am shocked to see the literati of US, French and Swiss society defending Roman Polanski.

Whoopi Goldberg says it isn’t "rape-rape". Good to know that there are some types of rape that are less traumatic than others, Guinan. I’ll make sure to get that list so I know when I have a right to be outraged when I hear someone is violated.

And Deborah Winger says "[The arrest] is based on an…old case that is all but dead but for minor technicalities," Really? I look forwad to seeing Ms. Winger making similar pleas for other confessed child molestors.

Woody Allen has spoken out in favour of Polanski. Now there’s someone you want in your court when you are accused of child rape. A man who married and had a child with his step-daughter. He’s someone we all should choose as our moral compass.

The facts are Polanski ran away from a plea bargan deal that would have seen him spend 48 days in jail for drugging, raping and sodimizing a 13 year-old girl. He later agreed to pay the victim (cause that’s what she is) $500,000. He may, in fact, never have paid it. And yes the victim has forgiven him and moved on, but that is not the point. He agreed to serve the time (a very small amount given what he did) but then like a coward, he bolted.

If Polanski is not brought to justice for this crime it will be OJ all over again, where if you are wealthy and famous you can pay your way out of jail.

And is that a justice system we really want to have?

Getting down off my soapbox and going to bed.

[  Mood: Distorted ]
[  Currently: Watching Flash Forward ]
I am trying something new, the Library Loot post. Invented by Eva and Marg, this is a way to let people know what you brought home from the library that week.

My Loot:

Yup – another in the Open Court Philosophy and Pop Culture series. Bathroom reading!

I have taken to taking cookbooks out of the library to preview them before I buy them in order to determine if I should buy them.

The third book in a series that I am enamoured of. I have been waiting for this for a while.

Met the author at Polaris and am excited to read the book as it sounded cool.

My bathroom reading right now. It is the last of the current FoxTrot omnibuses, so I don’t know what to read after that is done.

That’s not all of the books as I have a shoking 92 out right now. Yup. That’s right. 92.