Re: Just Finished - Now Starting

In article <ferumo06gr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Pam K <my2pugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just finished Sujata Massey's Girl in a Box - Rei Shimura has joined an USG
agency and goes back to Japan undercover.

Now reading Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen. Not a mystery - the true
story
of a former mountain climber building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. I
can't say it is terribly well-written, but I am enthralled with the story. He
was on NBC news last night, so I can now put a face to the book.

Just started The Chinese Alchemist by Lyn Hamilton. Antique dealer Lara
McClintoch goes to China to try to buy an ancient box to fulfill the wishes
of a friend.

Mmm. Makes me think of "The Trustee from the Toolroom", Neville Chute
I think; wonderful old book about the calm persistence of loyalty to a
dead friend.

I'm reading my first Daniel Hecht novel, "City of Masks", about a New
Orleans ghost of particularly horrible kind and an old murder; love it!
Guy can really write. A local librarian, wife of an SF author,
recommended it. Gail keeps the Wyoming Branch loaded with good
SF/F and mysteries, which is why I drive all the way up there instead
of going to the main library, much closer, downtown. Luckily, she's
not due to retire for a couple of decades yet. After which I reckon I'll
have to kill myself -- no, wait, by then I should be well gone already,
to the Great Library in the Sky.

Is addiction to fiction a real addiction like the others? Sometimes I
really do wonder . . .

Suzy
.

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