Thursday Thirteen 341: Recently Read

It's time for another edition of Recently Read. As always, click on any cover, or one of the links at the bottom, for more information about a given book.














BOOK NOTES

ROW 1: More Nora Roberts catch-up -- The Hollow is book two in her Sign of Seven trilogy. Daring to Dream and Holding the Dream are books one and two respectively in her Dream trilogy. I'll be reading the last two books in both series this month or August.

ROW 2: These were all new-to-me authors. The Groom's Gamble was a good historical romance novella, and Where There's Smoke is a novella by Jodi Picoult. First Grave on the Right is book one in the Charley Davidson series and was a bit of a disappointment for me. It was much recommended, and won a RITA for best first book, but I was not impressed.

ROW 3: The cozy mystery row! If Fried Chicken . . . was the first in Paige Shelton's Gram's Country Cooking School series. It was okay, but probably won't read more of this series. Avery Aames was the June featured author in the Cozy Mysteries group at Goodreads, so I read the next two books in her Cheese Shop series that were in Mount TBR, Lost and Fondue and Clobbered By Camembert. Still two books behind with this series.

ROW 4: The classics -- these were all for group reads: East of Eden, The Swiss Family Robinson, and The Sun Also Rises. I liked "E of E" and "TSAR," but did not much care for "TSFR" -- most people participating in the discussion actually said they prefered the movie version of "TSFR."

ROW 5: I was first introduced to Rascal in fourth grade, and it sparked a love of raccoons. The author, Sterling North, was a Wisconsin author who lived not too far south of where I am, and his boyhood home is now a museum and literary center.


What are YOU reading these days?


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