it was cold and blustery today, so we hung out at home and read. i breezed through Susan Wittig Albert's latest China Bayles herb-themed mystery: A Dilly of a Death . what can i say. i love them because they're full of herb lore, good recipes, and take place in my favorite place on planet Earth, the Texas Hill Country. they're featherweight and trivial, yes, you're right. but fun. this one is murder in the pickle factory, with lots of bad pickle jokes and puns. i never even knew there was a genre of pickle jokes. (what's big and green and swims in the ocean? Moby Pickle!!) dill, of course, is the herb used to make pickles, thus the title. take note, lots of interesting recipes involving dill. including a delicious sounding Dillied Beer Bread.
G just finished Absolute Friends, so i'll start that next. she calls it a very accurate description of the manipulation of events surrounding the war. disheartening but not surprising. she was very bummed out through the latter half of the book. the way one feels after reading alternative news sources, perhaps.
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I have to admit, mysteries are my guilty read of choice. I have this strange addiction to Sue Grafton and her Kinsey Millhone series. I think I've read every one of them--some much better than others--from A is for Alibi to Q is for Quarry. I used to read Paretsky too, I should pick her up again.
yes, me too, i'm reading thru the alphabet with Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone. Sara Paretsky has taken a long time-out from V.I. Warshawski, something in her private life went askew. the new one is the first in quite a while.
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