What I've been reading... and you should too!

So, I had grand plans to get a lot of reading done while in Vermont (and on the way) and prepared myself as such. However, it just didn't pan out.  I have finished a few new books however.  They are...
#31: Obsessed by Ted Dekker
#32: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
#33: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
#34: The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell

My only true recommendation from all of the above is The Handmaid's Tale.  If you escaped your literature courses in college (I'm not sure if any high schools would have allowed this to be taught) without reading this, you really, truly should pick it up now.  I flew through this and really enjoyed it, even the ending.  I haven't done much {yet} to scour the web of interpretations, reviews, discussions but it's a book that lends itself so well to being picked apart, analyzed, raked through the coals that I know I'd find plenty of material if and when I chose to do so.  My library was again the source of all my materials.

I'll add that while I really enjoyed Patricia Cornwell getting back to the actual crime-solving that made the Scarpetta series interesting to readers like me, I just have a distaste in my mouth for who the characters have become.  In particular, Lucy.  I found myself growing so tired and annoyed of either her or Cornwell's descriptions of her that it really fogged the rest of the novel for me.  Additionally, I just felt like the ending was pulling so many threads together that I could barely keep up.  But as I said, I thought this was a big improvement over the last of the installments.  Wonder what's up next from her.