Wonderful Wordy Wednesday

Happy Christmas Eve! 

The weather looks to be quiet, no storms and warmish temperatures. Almost all of the snow that has fallen is gone. Only the snow plow piles and some ice is left. 

More than usual sunshine too. We have gained four minutes back on our earliest sunsets, but still losing time on the sunrise. Our latest sunrise doesn't occur until the first few days of January. So we are at the shortest time between sunrise and sunset right now. 

Last trivia night of the year on Monday. We met early to do dinner as well for the holiday. We had a typical trivia night, not doing well on boy band and movie stuff. We had what I consider to be a typical score for us, but we ended up in fifth place this week. Oh well, we have fun.  

Hail to the Chef the second installment of the White House Chef Mysteries. Holiday time is upon the White House. Thanksgiving dinner, receptions, family conflicts, possible matchmaking and showing off the holiday decorations for the press. But things get a little extra buzz and a gingerbread replica of the White House has some issues. 

Beautiful Ugly a wonderful twisty thriller. Grady is an author who has just gotten his first New York Times listed best seller. Then his wife disappears. He goes into a writing funk so his agent sends him to a remote Scottish island to write. No distractions, no contact with the outside world and no way to leave. There he swears he keeps seeing his wife, but the residents, who are all women, say can't be. But is it? 

Deep Cuts story of the relationship between Percy and Joe. Both into music and she has a knack for over analyzing songs. Can they make music together? Both literally and figuratively? Books set in the early 2000s and refers to music from that era, so hard for me to relate. 

The Stolen Queen - Charlotte is part of a crew on an Egyptian dig in 1936 and helps find a fabulous necklace. A tragedy occurs and the necklace disappears. Fast forward to 1978, Charlotte is working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art when the necklace appears as part of the display for the Met Gala. During the gala there is a disruption to help cover a theft, which sends Charlotte back to Egypt to track the stolen item back. 

 

 

I say yes to this. You might see something interesting, new author, then you can ask host about book. Also, when they are interviewing people on TV and they have books in the back, I try to read the titles. Another way to find more books to read.  

Happy Reading.  Have an enjoyable and safe Merry Christmas.