[Tealeaf]

So..being back in Church for the long weekend I grabbed a little light reading from Lancashire's library service (albeit being nominally resident in the Capital, I have still maintained my membership of LCC's library services).

The first book I picked up and the one I opened last night was one from the crime section, by the American legal eagle John Grisham; the book spine has been clearly marked by the library with a small Colt 45 pistol insignia, indicating that this is of the adult crime genre. The title of the piece? Theodore Boone.

Last night - two pages into the book (it would have been less had it not been for a nice bottle of claret & a half bottle of port) I realised that this was anything but adult crime fiction. It was, in fact, a kiddies book which just happened to be written by Mr Grisham.

Now, I do not know which is worse. Is it a good crime writer such as Grisham trying to play a variation on Harry Pottert & Hogwarts in Strattenburg, good 'ol USA or is it some idiot at the Lancashire library service not knowing any better and just passing this off as a grown-up crime fiction? Whichever, I do know that I would never have had this experiance when Church library was open.