and wanted to share my favorite quote today from Martha Grimes’s The Lamorna Wink

“Heavy with anger and corsets, Matron turned on her heel and marched down the galleried hall.”

hope you are finding something as much fun

not sure what serious reading might be for you – big books?  lots of reading hours?

I read a review saying that the first book in Jane Smiley’s 100 year trilogy was great for book groups so when I was at the library and saw a new book by her on the new book shelf I immediately picked it up.  Started reading it and discovered that I was in book 2 and the cast of characters is so large that I decided I really needed to start at the beginning so went back and got the first book – Some Luck – and read it before coming back to Early Warning which is the latest out.

I liked them both – Early Warning more because I think I was more familiar with the characters – and this is a book where you need to refer frequently to the genealogy list at the beginning – and because she had hit the era that was more familiar to me.  So my serious reading is nearly 1000 pages of Jane Smiley but enjoyable and recommended.

Now I have to wait until she finishes writing the last one to see where she takes this large family that starts on a farm in Iowa.