Melissa's Book Shelf
July 2019
This is what Library Director's Read?
 
So what I read depends on how much time I have on my hands. Sometimes it feels like not nearly enough for all I would like to read. Max still likes his walks but hte pool is open and he is just fine hanging out inside the pool fence.
 
Another Stuart Woods - another book of the Rich and Dangerous going after the Rich and Famous. Stone says in the book there are 2 kinds of rich - those who are rich and don't have to worry about the next mortgage payment and then those who are rich who don't have a mortgage. IF only that was me!
 
Just finished An Anoymous Girl - Good twists and turns. Guessing who was in on it and who wasn't. I liked that the main character comes into her own and plans out her own future. 
 
I had been waiting to read Once Upon a River - I LOVED Thirteenth Tale - would this be as good? Sadly no - but it's not bad. It's like that band whose sophmore album just wasn't as awesome as the first - but you still listened to it. (or am i dating myself - because no one has ALBUMS anymore?) All I wanted was for the child to end up with the right people. 
 
Small Great Things was the Senior Book Club  read this month. There certainly was a lot to talk about with this book. And not just race. Opportunities - and taking advantage of them. Cycles of poor - can it be broken. Hate - can someone just stop hating? This was a Picoult that was actually not that depressing but still has a weird medical diagnosis. 
 
Happy Reading!
Wild card
by Stuart Woods

"Stone Barrington clashes with a determined adversary in the latest non-stop thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods. Stone Barrington and his latest paramour are enjoying a peaceful country retreat when their idyll is broken by an unwelcome stranger. He was sent by an enemy, someone who'd be happy to silence Stone and all his collaborators for good. only it's soon clear that Stone is not an easy man to target. But with boundless resources and a thirst for vengeance, this foe will not be deterred, and when one plot fails another materializes. Their latest plan is more ambitious and subtle than any they've tried before, and the consequences could remake the nation. With the country's future in the balance, Stone will need to muster all his savvy and daring to defeat this rival once and for all."
An anonymous girl
by Greer Hendricks

"When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she's thinking...and what she's hiding."
Small great things : a novel
by Jodi Picoult

When her reluctance to treat the newborn of a white supremacist couple results in the child's death, a black nurse is placed on trial and is aided by a white public defender who urges her not to bring up race in the courtroom
Once upon a river : a novel
by Diane Setterfield

When the seemingly dead body of a child reanimates hours after arriving at an ancient inn on the Thames, three families try to claim her in the new novel from the best-selling author of The Thirteenth Tale. 250,000 first printing
Max came to the concert at Telford Park!
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