Finished LOVE, LUCY

 

I was young when I Love Lucy was on tv.  I think it's last season was when I was 12, so I remember watching with my family and laughing at her hijinks.  Unfortunately, the humor is more appreciated now...then I was often embarrassed by what she was about to do and cringed while watching.  This book starts with her birth and family and is full of stories through her divorce from Desi and subsequent marriage.  Not once in this book is there a derogatory word against anyone.  Everything about Desi and everyone in her life was positive.  I loved it.  Here was a gracious lady being even better than I'd remembered.

I am now about to start book 2 in the Outlander series, Dragonfly in Amber.  I will start it tonight.

Finished DOWN IN NEW ORLEANS

 

A romance/mystery by Heather Graham with no ghosts...is just not as much fun as her Krewe of Hunters novels.  For some time I've been troubled by the new quirk of a large number of villains/ murderers.  For the sake of surprise, modern mystery writers are just scrapping realism.  However, the novel was readable and engaging.

I have now started Love, Lucy, Lucille Ball's autobiography.  So far, I've read about her childhood, growing up in western New York (not far from where I grew up, though I was a generation later.)  Her style is matter-of-fact and, of course, as one would imagine, quite readable.

Read another 50 pages or so of JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL

 

As I continue in this book, more magical events and people are appearing around London.  Though the people find it diverting, they are also learning how unpredictable it is.

I have now started Down in New Orleans by Heather Graham.  I have been following her Krewe of Hunters book and this romance somehow slipped in.  But it is, of course, also a mystery, so I am on board.  This is not what the cover of the book I am reading looks like, but I couldn't find mine on Goodreads.