Even though it's hard find much time to read, I try to keep a good book on hand most of the time. And now, with the options available through my library and Kindle and recorded books, there is no excuse to not have a story to get caught up in. Here are my most recent reads:
Driftless came to my attention because I was looking for a book title Jewelweed by the same author. That title was not available at that time, but this looked intriguing and I'm glad I chose it. It is a novel about the people in and around a small community in southwest Wisconsin. A little intrigue, a little scandal, a little love story, and a whole lot of local flavor.
Gone Girl was a hard one to get my hands on, I was on the waiting list for the Kindle edition for weeks. It is a story of the disappearance of a woman. And a tangled web of interwoven lives. It left me wondering if the wait was worth it.
Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton is a big departure from his typical work. This is historical fiction about seafaring and swashbuckling at their best. The usual damsel in distress was involved, but not a key element of the story so I liked that. I would rather read about the hunt for treasures and the heroics of a bunch of misfits!
Currently, I am listening to a new novel, A Wanted Man, about Jack Reacher, the hero of a series of books by Lee Child. I'm right in the middle, so still a bit to go to know what's going to happen, but Jack is up to his old tricks. This character is the basis for a recent movie starring Tom Cruise. The Jack Reacher of the books is always described as a real big, forbidding kind of guy. Kind of the opposite of Tom Cruise!
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