Jungle Red Roll Call, count off now!

HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN:  Happy summer Sunday, everyone! Yesterday I trained home from Thrillerfest--such a crush and amazing! (Highlights! Nelson DeMille: "You have to know when to milk a scene." Clive Cussler: "I like the money."
Sandra Brown's utter gorgeous graciousness, chatting with John Sandford,
Karin Slaughter's amazing interview with the generous and hilarious Charlaine Harris, Lee Child interviewing Mark Billingham--the coolness level was incalculable.)






And here's my extra-meta photo of myAmtrak journey home--see what I mean?

So remember on Mickey Mouse Club? Jimmy would say: Mouseketeer roll call, count off now!

So let's do that, this Sunday! We'd love to know who's out there, those who comment faithfully (and thank you!) and those who don't (we love you, too!)  Reds and readers, where are you and what are you reading/thinking/doing?  

And to welcome those who don't usually chime in,  I have an ARC of WHAT YOU SEE for one commenter!

ON "THE ENVELOPE PLEASE"

I was better with you as a woman than I've ever been with a woman as a man!
*** Dustin Hoffman as "Tootsie"

Thanks to all our lovely contestants in the first but not last Jungle Red Gender Quiz!

The photos below are not our lovely contestants--though who knows, they may be those "Anonymous" entrants who were too chicken to own up to their guesses. But here are the talented authors who wrote those difficult-to-gender-match excerpts.

Anyway, drumroll please...and Hank will open the envelopes.

Quote #1














John Sandford
Invisible Prey

I chose it because I thought you might be fooled by the flower and architecture references, and the concern about children.


Quote #2

Laura Lippman
What the Dead Know


I chose this because she thought it sounded tough, And kind of--cold. That's not a bad thing. It's just not "feminine."

Quote #3

John Katzenbach

The Madman'sTale

Hallie chose this--maybe because it's through a woman's eyes? And seems compassionate?

Quote #4

Carol O'Connell
Find Me

Also Hallie's choice--maybe because it's gritty and gory, and has animals in danger? Not a "woman-y" thing to do.

Quote #5

Alafair Burke

Close Case

Rosemary's selection--because she thought it didn't sound "girly."

So how'd you do? And when you "missed," what made you choose the gender you chose?

And those of you who checked out the quiz but didn't enter--we have stat counter, so we can tell you're all out there, you know--Okay, you're shy. Or, as we said, chicken.

But did you get it right? Or were you surprised?