Finished People of the Weeping Eye and another book

I swear each of these books I read is better than the last.  Perhaps because I have been a camping aficionado, I love living is the distance past with these great characters and this time the characters are, perhaps, even more interesting and the plot more complicated.  It has a sequel, People of the Thunder which is next in my Gear pile , so I'll be reading it in thirteen books.  Now I am only half-way through the story.

Then, while going to California for TR's class reunion, I read Emperor Dad, another of  Henry Melton's sci/fi-fantasy books for teens.  Joseph's dad got laid off and resents it.  He tries to consult, but he is a scientist, not a money manager.  So he scraps it and starts (in secret from his family) to pursue a line of scientific investigation that leads him to teleportation.  From this discovery to his becoming Emperor of the Earth makes a really great story.  It starts slow because it is pretty technical showing his line of study, but as soon as he discovers teleportation, it becomes really exciting.  Highly recommended.  I love this author.



I have now started The Big Short by Michael Lewis.  I have not yet seen the movie, but will when it shows up on a TV channel I watch.  I have never been able to understand exactly what happened with the housing market bust.  How could such huge banks make such a big mess?  This books not only purports to explain this, but also how someone could make money of the crash (another concept that is totally beyond me.)  So, I figured I'd let Michael Lewis attempt to explain it to me.  I have to admit that, though I've barely started, he is doing a pretty good job.

Finished THE LOST YEARS

Unlike with most MHC novels, I figured out "who done it" pretty much after we had been introduced to all the characters.  But that didn't keep me from being hooked by the suspense, because I had no idea how they were going to catch this very clever character.  However, I should have known, when Alvirah and Willie are on the case....  As usual, I enjoyed this book very much.

I have now started People of the Weeping Eye, another W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear novel.  This one has started rather slowly by introducing characters and I can't connect the characters introduced in the first chapters with those in the opening unnumbered chapter,  Moon of the Angry Winds.  Each character seems pretty interesting, though and I am hopeful that they will all connect somehow before too long.

Finished EVER AFTER

Don't you just hate when a favorite author kills off a favorite character?  When Stephen R. Donaldson did it in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, he just invented another fabulous character.  Will Kim Harrison do that?  Remains to be seen.  In the meantime, the book was edge of the seat exciting--it kept me up past my bedtime a few times.  I enjoyed the short story at the end as well which picked up right where this book left off.

I have now started The Lost Years by Mary Higgins Clark.  Mariah's father has been murdered and the police suspect her mother who is suffering from Alzheimers.  Did he really have a letter written by Christ to Joseph of Arimethea?  If so, where is it?