books of the last 2 weeks (that I will admit to here)

Peter Dickinson The Last House Party
Gina Kolata Flu
Noel Streatfeild Tennis Shoes
Ruth Rendell A Sleeping Life
Katharine Kerr Freeze Frames
Bernard Cornwell Sharpe's Eagle
Tanya Huff Child of the Grove
Dorothy Gilman Mrs Pollifax on Safari
Dorothy Gilman The Elusive Mrs Pollifax , a few chapters
John Brunner, assorted Traveler in Black stories, dipped into at
random, as needed, to help get rid of the taste of the Pollifax.

( This was not one of my most successful library expeditions. Spoilers all over the place. )