A very old and powerful vampire who rules through fear is threatening to take over all vampires in America and instituted a blood bath. Anita and allies begin making moves to consolidate American vampires to resist this force. I continue to enjoy this series.
We started toward Florida on July 1. I finished Bullet on the 4th when we arrived. We spent a week without TV or the internet while we waited for our installation appointment with Xfinity. However there was lots to do. Quite a few things were here...the mobile as furnished, but the kitchen was only partially ready for cooking, we had no food, and we had certain needs (tables for instance) so there was plenty to do. There was also plenty of time for reading.
I started
Precious and Grace on the 4th after finishing
Bullet, (the only Independence Day celebrating we did was hot dogs for supper). I enjoy this relaxing sweet series. Now the agency is tasked with helping a Canadian woman find her childhood. The unexpected place the investigation leads to is, of course, gently and brilliantly navigated by Precious.
Wow. Goodreads says I read this in February of 2013. It was evidently the first book I read by this author. My review was right on. I read the entire book not remembering any of it. And it has and unusual plot. This is what happens when you get old, I fear. I thoroughly enjoyed it all over again.
I have been reading
The Vampire Files by P. N. Elrod, set during the 1930's, among the gangsters of Chicago. Now this new (to me) series is set during the Revolutionary WI ar on Long Island. Our gentleman vampire is a Tory. This book explains, in 1st person, how Jonathan became a vampire which is, at least methodically, the same way Jack Fleming of
The Vampire Files did. That said, I enjoyed the story telling and the characters as much as I do the first series.
On Sunday, TR and I went to a movie (the first one we have gone to since Part 2 of
The Deathly Hollows) at the clubhouse here in our mobile home park. We saw
Stan and Ollie. It was beautiful and remarkably done. Funny and sad, ending with sweet pathos. I came away blown away by Stan Laurel's brilliance as the inventor and writer of all their routines. Fabulous movie.
On July 14, I started
People of the Songtrail, the 22 book in their
America's Forgotten Past series.
Set about
1000 a.d., several people including Vikings and early Christians sought to colonize Iceland, Greenland, and Eastern Canada. Of course, there were people already here and the colonizers were enemies to each other as well.
