Finished BREAKING ANCHOR

 

A seventeen year old boy must keep his family's sailboat away from very diligent pursuit.  It was only about his trip, but was exciting and enough science to make it sci-fi.  Loved it as I have every Henry Melton book I have read.

I have now started Wolf Hall, the first book in a trilogy about Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII.  Of course, all I have read is his mistreatment as a boy by his father and his excaping his home at age 14 (started with a bang.)

Finished BUFFALO BILL'S DEAD NOW

 

I like these narratives of two stories, one in the present and one in the past.  Why did it take over 100 years to discover Chief Black Heart's headress, beaded vest, and other paraphenalia in a safe under a house in Germany?  And where are these same items now after being brought back to Wind River.  Father John and Vicky Holden are on the case.  

I am now about to start another Henry Melton YA Science Fiction story.  I love his stories because they make me think and I believe they most likely make young people think as well.

Finished KITCHEN PRIVILEGES, A MEMOIR.

 

Very readable, she starts with earliest memories, and we learn that she and her family, through no fault of love, had a really hard time with illnesses and deaths.  She takes us through her first two books sold when her life went from a struggle to comfortable and more.  She raised 5 children, much of their childhoods she was raising them alone.  Fascinating story.

I have now begun Buffalo Bill's Dead Now (A Wind River Mystery).  This appears to be the 16th book in the series and it looks like I have read all 15 leading to it.  A generous benefactor (or perhaps a contrite benefactor) bought a collection of artifacts belonging to a Chief Black Heart who toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show to donate to the mission's museum.  But, all that arrives is empty boxes. 

Finished DEATHSTALKER

 

I really enjoyed the action of this book, the really quirky characters (if made into a movie this would be a riot to costume!), and the environment....pick a world, any kind of world.  This series will have absolutely no limitations.  Now, what is it?  Science fiction...no, not enough science.  How about scientish action fantasy?  Just ordered more books in this series.

I have now started Kitchen Privileges, A Memoir by Mary Higgins Clark.  Not surprisingly, it is very readable optimistic poinance.  She does not take her world too seriously...at least not from the age she writes this book.

Finished DEAD MAN'S CHEST

 

Unlike most others in this series, it was not a murder mystery.  There were a number of mysteries, though, some of them quite serious.  And Phryne has added another person to her household,  a teen-age boy I quite liked and was hoping he would become an ongoing character.  All mysteries intriguing and characters enjoyable.

Taking a number of used books to Half Price Books for a little money, I also browsed a bit and found a series by an author new to me.  I thought he was an author whose books I'd been reading, but nope.  Whole new author...similar name.  That gives me a bit of a pause, jumping into a new series, but I was hooked on this one with the first sentence...dropping me into a very new environment and intoducing me to a new and intriguing character.  I was up late last night...reading.