This week I am reading “The Night Fire” - the latest Bosch and Ballard novel, by Michael Connelly.

How this author continues to crank out one great detective story after another just amazes me.

Connelly is talented.

P.S. I saw this sketch or journal cover and thought you might like it.

and thoroughly enjoyed each one.

I wish I could've gotten the first in the series. I like seeing how characters develop over the course of time. Like I'm missing why Cork is no longer sheriff. But it's fun to tax the old grey matter.

Iron Lake *is* the first Cork O’Connor book in the series. My memory is a bit fuzzy, but perhaps as the story progresses you’ll learn why certain things happened.

I’m always thrilled to introduce another book worm to an author whose work I really enjoy, so thanks for the shout out and hope you enjoy the books!

The only Bodleian Girl I know of is Laurie King's Mary Russell.

You always have such nice book themed pictures on your starting post.

Pretty good. A "discovering one's place in the world" story. The narrator is terribly raspy. Not sure if autobiographical or just based on real life. 3 stars.

Rachel Linden is an international aid worker whose adventures living and traveling in fifty countries around the world provide excellent grist for her stories. Highly rated on GoodReads.

The most recent novel I've read was over a year ago. I very much enjoyed "The Girl from Berlin" by Ronald H. Balson.



Lately my reading time is taken up with the horrifying current events commentaries and political memoirs for the past few years.

Sometimes it's good to step back from current commentaries and give your nerves and blood pressure a break.

I'm adding books to my Kindle fastet than I can read them right now.

Ask any bear.

Margaret Atwood, after 30+ years did not disappoint. I first reread The Handmaid’s Tale. Both were marvelous, albeit pretty frightening given our current conditions.

by William Kent Krueger. He seems to be very popular with this group!

I did like that one and look forward to reading more.

Mary Doria Russell's book, The Women of Copper Country. Mother Jones has just visited Copper Country (Calumet, MI) to boost moral of the striking miners and deliver much-needed funds to the strikers' relief fund.

by Christina Dalcher. A dreadful, mysogynist, theocracy has taken over, and all women are limited to 100 words per day. A metal band is attached to the wrist, and keeps count. If you go over the quota, you start receiving electric shocks, which ratchet up if you keep speaking. Excellent.

And now I'm reading Testament by Margaret Atwood. Reading them back to back is very eye opening.