Wonderful Wordy Wednesday

First time this has happened to me. I was reading a non-fiction book and as I went from the bottom of the left hand page to the right hand page the story change, font change etc. It went on this way for 30 pages and it skipped the pages that should have been there. If you look at how books are made there are mini-sections of paper, then bound together to make a full book. Someone must have grabbed the wrong set of pages. I went to a different library that had the book and checked it out. AFTER I checked to make sure it had the missing pages.  

I got lots of reading done on Tuesday as I skipped TV and the debate. I even minimized what local news I did. Weather is quiet, so don't even need to watch for the weather. Sports is easy to look up the scores. 

Oh yeah, Ducky and I are happy that ARodg lost on Monday night. He did make it through the entire game.

Postmortem is the first book of the Kay Scarpetta series. Kay is a medical examiner. In this book Kay is involved with a case that involves a serial killer who seems to target women who live alone. The book was fine, but I don't feel I needed to get into a series that has 27 more books to read!

The Reporter Who Knew Too Much is a recounting of the life and death of reporter Dorothy Kilgallen. Did she accidentally overdose, commit suicide or was she murdered? The first half of the book is about her life, the second on the premise that she was killed. She was investigating the JFK assassination and all of her files from this were missing and have never been found. I remember her not as a reporter but as a member of the panel on What's My Line?

A Three Dog Problem a book in the Queen Elizabeth Investigates series and a duplicate of All the Queen's Men which I read in 2022.  Why the publisher did this I have no idea, but I had to get this book through inter-library loan from a small library in southwest Wisconsin. Once I started to read it I realized I had already read it! Plot? there has been a death at Buckingham Palace. Accident or murder? Plus, how did one of the Queen's favorite paintings end up in a Portsmouth exhibit? Set in the near past, can the Queen solve this one? 

I too have traveled all over earth, soared into space and explored distant planets. Accomplished many things. All while staying home. 

 

This is me, using my library. You can do it too.

If you want someone to love reading, just let them read what they want on whatever topic. Once you learn to love reading your book interest will expand. As a kid, if it didn't have a horse in it, I didn't read it. Thankfully lots of good children's books with horses! Walter Farley with The Black Stallion series, Marguerite Henry Misty of Chincoteague and more.

I even went back as an adult and reread all of Walter Farley's books in the order they were published. I also found out his son Steven has written about a dozen books as well with the Black Stallion as the main character.

Happy Reading.