From the @truman on the November weekly menu planning thread, which I don’t want to derail;
Nice! I have been alternating between “Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito” (“Dark Winds”) and “Inspector Gamache”, and am currently listening to
@truman , have you seen the recipe pages?
Ha, only when you’ve referenced them before! 
Read (actually listened) to the new Vera mystery, The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves and the new Michael Connelly, The Waiting. Loved the Connelly and Dark Wives was a wavering thumbs up.
So, we saw Louise tonight… she is surprisingly funny! One thing she mentioned that is relevant to the audiobook cover you posted above is that for her newest book (The Grey Wolf), she asked the audiobook people to cast a Quebecois narrator because she believes that’s more authentic to her stories. So there’s a new narrator. She also had many, many things to say about the Prime Video series, most of them not positive about the changes from the books.
I was go smacked when Robert Bathurst took over for Ralph Cosham!
This might be interesting, if want someone’s opinion on “how to navigate the series”.
I thought this was an interesting list: Best Historical Fiction Set in the American South recommended by Xan Brookst.
Perhaps I will try to finish Demon Copperfield
I’m reading two actual paper books, unusual for me these days. First is Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro for November book club meeting. Over the weekend I killed time at a thrift store and bought a copy of Daniel Silva’s The Order. Ended up reading about a third of it on Saturday afternoon before switching back to the book club selection. Enjoying both of them!
I just finished reading “The Mistake I Made” by Paula Daly.
The book started out pretty good, but it felt like the author just “mailed it in” for an ending. After such a good lead up, I was disappointed and wanting a more involved ending. In my opinion, she just “hurried up and finished writing the book” like she ran out of steam when it was time to wrap everything up.
I just finished The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya. I enjoyed it a lot, and it was a quick read, although I’m not sure I fully understood the point it was making. I’ll have to read some reviews. 
Now I’m on to Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes. Just a few pages in, but this author never disappoints.
I gave up on The Bee Sting (like Demon Copperhead and The Goldfinch, IMO, too many disasters befall the characters to believe.) I was partway through Don Delillo’s White Noise when it was due back. It’s satire, I guess, and pretty sardonic in tone. Not sure I want to go back to it but I will probably give it one more go when my hold comes back up.
I’m reading a George Smiley book by Le Carre’s son Nick Harkaway. Karla’s Choice. It took me two days to read 30 pages as I had to re-read pages and paragraphs to try to understand them and I wondered if I would continue, however it has started to make sense and I am enjoying it. On deck is Ann Cleeves and Michael Connelly’s latest.
Read/listened to the Connelly and Cleeves book and probably enjoyed the Connelly a bit. I just finished Ina Garten memoir (perfect for this stressful week) and just started Real Americans. It’s due in 5 days back to Libby so I’m listening to it on a very fast speed!
I’m currently working my way through the 55 books in Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series. Currently on #17, Ten Plus One. Will be interesting to see how the detectives evolve as the series moves toward the 21st Century.
Well deserved!
I finished listening to an excellent book last night: Whose Names are Unknown by Sanora Babb. She was a native Oklahoman who volunteered in Farm Security Admin’s camps for dust bowl migrants in California. At night she worked on her novel focusing on two migrant families. John Steinbeck came to the camp and was given her field notes by the camp’s supervisor (Babb’s boss), from which he (presumably) borrowed to write Grapes of Wrath. He beat Babb to press and as a result, her book contract was cancelled and not published until it was rediscovered in 2004. So beautifully written and a timely tale about unchecked capitalism.
Here is a gift link to an NYT article about it which caused me to read the book in the first place:
I skimmed through Ina Garten’s memoir.
I read and finished ‘The Giver of Stars’.
I’m finishing ’ The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek’.
The last two are parallel novels with lots of controversy surrounding that aspect. I like them both for their differences.
Still catching up on New Yorkers.
I’ve put ‘A Hundred Years of Solitude’ on audio on hold to listen to while sewing and knitting before Christmas. I just couldn’t get through the written work.
Tonight I’ll see what food mags are available to download from the Library.
Wow! That is engaging!
Here’s a summary of “Cutting for Stone”. One read that it "uses (the practice of?) medicine as a metaphor for life.
I think I got it because the author, Abraham Verghese, wrote something new and popular; “The Covenant of Water”.
I loved that book. He is such a gifted author. I read part of Covenant Of Water before Libby snatched it back.
I ordered this today for myself, in blue, so he can give it to me for Xmas. 
