"The Princess of Burundi" by Kjell Eriksson

Picked this book up for free at the Royal Ottawa Hospital. Murder mystery translated from Swedish. Very pedestrian writing style and plot. I don't think I'll bother reading the other book in this series. Salvation Army here I come.

'MockingJay' by Suzanne Collins

An enjoyable but dark conclusion to the trilogy. Too bad I read the ending beforehand, so was not surprised by the most shocking surprise (killing Coin) in the book.

'Microserfs' by Douglas Coupland

OK book. I read it because I like geeks, and because I wanted to give Coupland another try, to cement  my opinion of his writing. I find he has too many unnecessary, boring intellectual dialogue games going on in his books. I can read them more quickly if I skip over that stuff, which is just mind masturbation anyways.  The book, under all its cold, geeky trappings, had a nice warm, human message. But I think I've read enough of Coupland.