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Finished A Duty To The Dead by Charles Todd
It is the first of a series of mysteries featuring the character Bess Crawford, a nurse in England during WWI. The story is tight, the characterization very good, the feeling of the locale is excellent (even if the authors are East Coast dwellers). An enjoyable read that I recommend. There are four volumes to that series and there is another series about inspector Ian Rutledge.
Charles Todd is a pen name for an unusual team consisting of one writer working with his mother
I have read all the Bess Crawford books, really like Charles Todd.
I'm halfway through Don't Look Back by Greg Hurwitz. Newly separated Eve takes a solo vacation (that was meant to celebrate her 10th anniversary) in the jungles of southern Mexico. Supposedly a very safe locale we soon learn that is not the case. One thing I have learned so far is that I definitely don't want to vacation in any jungle... lol.
The book gets creepy scary pretty early in the story and Hurwitz can paint some rather gruesome scenes that make you want to put the book down but you can't because you have to find out what happens next.
I have The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva up next. It's an early book by him set in Germany 1944 that DH loved. I'm into WWII books so will probably like it as well.
I just finished a novel called Shatter by Michael Robotham. It is a psychological thriller that I found hard to put down. At 470 pages, it might have gone on a bit too long, but, all in all, I thought it was well written. I highly recommend it to any “thriller” readers out there. I have read a couple of the author’s other books and enjoyed them as well.
Lining up my E-books for a three week cruise to Rio starting next weekend. With all the publicity, my new read is "American Sniper" by Chris Kyle http://www.amazon.com/American-Sniper-Autobiography-Military-Histor... This could be the Academy Award winner. I have an addition thirteen books selected and downloaded to the device, which should be sufficient. I don't know if the cloud travels with you on cruise ship? I absolutely love my new Kindle Fire, which I purchased for just $79 on an Amazon special this X-Mas. I generally had to pack a half dozen books when I took a cruise, even more for longer cruises, but now I have it all in less than a lb, as well as a fully functional tablet for communicating back to my family. Isn't technology great?
Thanks! This is a 45 anniversary trip. I've got some doubts that we will be in good enough shape to make the 50th, so we are doing something special this year. We did a cross-Atlantic cruise for the 25th and went around the bottom half of South America for the 35th. So this is one more "bucket list" item: being in Rio on Carnival Day.
Happy 45th Mandy. We'll celebrate our 45th this year also. We've never been on a cruise. We been scuba diving in the Caribbean but we always flew. A cruise may be just the ticket! I sure hope you and your's, as well as me and mine,will be around for the 50th.
It is now to be taken for granted that all hotels and all cruise ships would have internet service and most of the time wifi as well. Since the ship is connected through satellite expect the response of the internet to be quite different so be more patient The signal travels at the speed of light and must go to the satellite and back. You are aware of it when you see people from different continents being interviewed on TV
A few years back, a hotel manager rolled his eyes when I told him that wifi will be expected and free. We're not quite there
I also love my kindle fire and use it for multiple things, reading books, listening to music and playing games (mostly puzzles) also showing people pictures on it. I have about four hundred books on that device. When I went to a recent vacation overseas it was the right thing to have both during long flights and on the beach. If you also have Amazon prime then you can borrow a free book (one at a time) and watch lots of movies/tv shows
Mandy, I wish you a great holiday in Rio where the weather will be great and hope that the 50th will be even better.
For those who cannot go to Rio come on over to Silicon Valley where it is sunny and 74. Sorry Mellow, I know winter is brutal in your neck of the woods. I used to live near there and did not believe the weather report when it indicated that certain areas of the country were basking in warm sunshine. The grey skies got to me worse than the cold
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