Finished ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE

 

War is Hell.  Following individuals as this does, we of course learn what we old people know already.  No one person is completely bad (well maybe Hitler).  And fate is indifferent to the good in people (and the bad).  You cannot extrapolate from how much you like a character as to his or her ability to survive.  I do like that we visit each major character at the end of the book (about 30 years later) to find out what has happened to each.  I enjoyed the book.  It definitely held my interest.

I have now begun the fourth book in the OUTLANDER series, Drums of Autumn.  Jamie, Claire and entourage watch the hanging of one of Jamie's friends from the prison in Scotland and claim his body for burial.  Stephen Bonnet (having escaped from the line of men to be hanged) has hidden in their wagon, next to the body.

Finished DEADLY FATE

 

A bit more complicated that past books in this series, especially at the end.  I have been to Alaska (though not as north as this) and understand that, even with all the horrible things going on, why people keep saying they love Alaska.  These books are kind of a travel guide of the USA, with murders, ghosts, and romance going on all at once.  What's not to like?

I have now started All the Light We Cannot See, which I found recommended in a booklist of historical fiction.  Marie Laure, blind and 12 years old, lives in Nazi occupied Paris in 1944.  On the sixth floor of her building and alone, she hears planes (liberating forces of the Allies).

Read 100 more pages in THE CODE BREAKER

 

In this section Jennifer and friends/ associates try to go commercial, that is start a company to look for medical applications for CRISPR.  They had with mixed results.  Part of the problem was that at first nobody knew what it was and no one wanted to invest.  Then, of course as it became understood, everyone wanted to claim credit and/or beat Jennifer to the market. 

I have now started Deadly Fate, another Krewe of Hunters novel by Heather Graham.  The trick to this title is that some of the characters are actors in a play that will be performed on the cruise ship, "Fate."  The ship is anchored in Seward, Alaska, where two young women have been killed--horribly.

Finished BRIGHT SEASON

 

Of course there are complications.  In the first place, Melinda is navigating a new romance, renovating her house, running her drought-ridden farm, and working full time.  I don't know when she finds time to go to the bathroom.  Add finding some letters that gets the whole Schermman family concerned about Horace, and...well, darn that drought!  I have enjoyed the first 6 books of this series, that I just ordered the last four and the first 2 in a new mystery series by this author.  Although the publisher of this series says it is in DE Moines, Iowa, the last page in the book says Coppell, TX.  It is the Y in Coppell, TX, where TR and I attend water aerobics classes.  Could she live right here???

I am now about to head back to The Code Breaker.  The subject of this book, Doudna, was behind the vaccine for Covid.  Though it is fairly technical and gives me a headache occasionally, I have read enough of Robin Cook to have some idea of how stunning results of splitting (cutting and pasting) parts of DNA can be.