Summer-time Reading

I’m going to get to visit some of my old friends. Many of you know I like to watch soap operas. The correct term is ‘serials.’ We have lots of examples of night-time serials, as well. I like serials in books, too. I enter into the characters lives, watching from a distance as they face all sorts of problems, make new friends, work out convulted plots … a fantasy world.

My favourite books to read are murder mysteries. The photo shows my three favourite authors – the only authors I read. It all started many years ago when we were visiting Doug’s brother for a few days. Their small town had a regional library and Marilylle asked me if I’d like to go to the library with her. She encouraged me to sign out a couple of books and she would return them when I left. The author I read was Mary Higgins Clark – the master of serial murder mysteries (I’m sure there are other masters.) I was hooked!

Since then, summer-time reading has been all about escapism. Remember, I was working on my undergrad degree for a number of years … it was a treat to not have any textbooks to read.

I don’t usually buy hardcover books, but Stabenow and Mott Davidson don’t ‘produce’ a book every year. (They have other serial lines that they write, which I don’t read.) I can count on Evanovich to have a book for me … she numbers her books … I’m on “Fearless Fourteen.”

The protagonist in each of these series is a woman, as are the authors. Now my decision is “Who do I read first?” I think I’ll meet up with Kate Shugak in “Whisper to the Blood.” I haven’t visited with Kate for several years … and she had been so happily in love, then her man was murdered … so she’s been bleak for at least two books. I think they should call these books murder mystery/romance novels. I’ll be up late most nights, consuming them in a few days.

What are you reading this summer?

Also note in the photo my new quilt-type bedspread on my second spare bed.