pickThis one finds Cork O‘Conner traveling to Arizona after his new wife gets a frantic call from her son. What they find are secrets & lies, a porous border where trouble between drug cartels, vigilante border patrol groups & those trying to keep a low profile as they help undocumented immigrants is brewing, & a past that Cork‘s wife would have preferred to forget about. Solid, although not my fav in the series, story & a good read.
Managed to go a week or two without reading a Cork O‘Conner book. I‘m almost caught up on the series so trying to take my time with the last few…
November Fiction #ReadingBracket2024
It was difficult to pick my favorite this month. I read a few really unique romances
pickI hesitate to mention A Man Called Ove, because there's less concrete plot pieces in common, more a vibe. Gil is a man who is slowly recovering from a bad break up, not the death of his wife, and he's less a crabby old guy than an independently wealthy middle-aged man trying to feel he's doing something worthwhile. 1/?
#MiddleGradeMonday.
Loved this book when I read it. Aven Green was born without arms but she likes to tell people an alligator ate them. Great story about perseverance.
pickThis is an interesting oral history of a woman born in 1901. Based on the author‘s grandmother. I read The Glass Castle a couple years ago, about the author‘s life growing up & especially her dad and his crazy schemes. This book was interesting as it showed her mom came from stock that wasn‘t much less chaotic.
pickIn an effort to clear the kindle I picked this 2013 buy. it‘s a solid if perhaps unecesssrily complex murder mystery set in the Arizona desert. Narrated by Bridget Quinn in the first person its the story of a somewhat disgraced, early retired FBI agent and the case that got away. Bridget is frankly infuriating but also kind of awesome and it was interesting to have a slightly older protagonist. Apparently now there are also another 3!
pickAven Green may have been born without arms, but she has amazing parents, an incredible sense of humor, and that knowledge that she can do almost anything she sets her mind to. When her family moves to a new place, she befriends a boy with Tourette‘s Syndrome, and together they dig into mysteries at a Western theme park. Delightful, emotional, engaging, and laugh-out-loud funny, this was a fantastic book about acceptance of self and others.
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