Finished The Silenced

 

As usual with this author another light enjoyable read.  I had guessed who the perpetrators were but wasn't sure until the end--there were just so few people it could have been.

I am now about to start Home  A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews.  She is one of my favorite entertainers, so I am looking forward to it.

I Read another 50 pages of WAR AND PEACE

 

This book is so long and the print so fine that I thought it was better for my eyes as well as my focus that I thought it should be consumed in thin slices (like a good fruitcake.)   In this slice the young men are off to war.  Their women mourn and worry while the men are off on a 1000 mile march to reach Russia.

 I am now about to start The Silenced by Heather Graham.  I enjoy these novels because they are set in locations I have visited in my travels.  This appears to be set in a number of Civil War battlefields and cemeteries in Southern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and perhaps in Virginia.  Cool...

Finished BEFORE WE WERE YOURS

 

This is centered around two people...a 12 year old first born of five living with her parents on a shantyboat in 1939 and their subsequent treatment by a children's home.  The other is a young lawyer about to run for the Senate and get married who begins to learn she may be related to the first...somehow.  I am left, as I often am by books and life, stymied by the atrocities we humans can commit for money and/or power.

I am now going back to War and Peace.

  

I find it surprising that I am not reading more quickly now that we are total shut-ins.  TR's daughter learned from her doctor that it was nearly impossible right now to go anywhere and not get Covid.  So, we are staying home and she is getting our groceries and anything else we need.  When we go swimming every day, we sit and read for an hour or so afterward.  But now I am pretty much watching television all the time and only reading at night after TR goes to bed.  So, I am reading more slowly.  But it is Christmas and I have about a million Christmas movies taped (mostly Halmark.)

Finished BLOOD LINE

 

I swear these books are just getting better.  This author takes facts from all kinds of sciences and from history to weave together imaginative and exciting "saving the world" dramas in every book.  To me, this is science fiction at it's best and indeed most thrilling.  These books take several days for me to read and I believe it to be a miracle that I can sleep at night while reading them.

Then at the end of the book was a neat short story, a caper in which Tucker and his dog Kane (major characters introduced in this book) helped a young woman in Budapest.  Though it didn't have a prayer of engendering the tension of Rollins novels, I did very much enjoy relationship between dog and man working together.

I have now started Before We Were Yours, by Lisa Wingate.  It seems to be about abuses at orphanages and nursing homes as well as trafficking children.  We shall see, 

Finished KILLING RAVEN

 

I thought this might be the best of the series so far.  The tension was higher and the mystery seemed even more puzzling to me.  I love these books.

I have now started Blood Line, the eighth book in the Sigma Force series by James Rollins.  I love these books: they are science fiction action novels that also explore technology, go to exotic places, and are tense all the way through.  This one is especially tense to me because it deals with different kinds of exploitation of women for money than even Robin Cook has conceived of as yet.  I very much care about the women whose lives are in danger...