Welcome to this week’s Book Talk!
Woo hoo! I read three books last week!
I read the 3rd installment in Fiona McIntosh’s DCI Jack Hawksworth series, Mirror Man. I read the previous books last summer and lost my momentum while I was waiting for Mirror Man to arrive. Since the 4th book releases Tuesday, I decided to get ready to read it on release day. Mirror Man is like the two previous books in the series: the pacing is fast, the characters are brilliant and the storyline is well-executed. I like DCI Hawksworth more and more with each mystery. And the supporting cast of characters is just as superb as he is.
My second read of the week was A Rancher Worth Remembering, a delightful romance by Anna Grace. This small town romance is the first book in the Love, Oregon series and features the close-knit Wallace siblings as they fall love. You can read my thoughts on this marvelous romance HERE.
In Into the Dark by Fiona Cummins, I returned to Britain for an outstanding domestic mystery. Short chapters that weave back and forth in time keep the pages turning at a blistering pace. The plot is ingenious and keeps readers guessing from beginning to end. I hope we will meet DS Saul Anguish again in a future mystery because he is an intriguing character.
Now it’s your turn. What have you been reading lately? Join the discussion by commenting below!
I don’t only read fiction.
This past week I listened to _The Ends of the World_ by Peter Brannen. The books is framed on rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere, then reviews extinction events of the past. It seems that many catastrophic things need to happen around the same time in order for mass die-offs to happen. For instance the asteroid creating what is now the Yucatan Peninsula, not a small event. I learned about geography, geology, chemistry, and some human history. Interesting and informative.
I watched a PBS special that shouwed how seemingly small things can end in catastrophic die-offs.
I’m very concerned about climate change. I’ll check out this book. It sounds very informative.