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By education and experience - Accountant with a specialty in taxation. Formerly a CPA (license has lapsed). Masters degree in law of taxation from University of Denver. Now retired. Part time work during baseball season as receptionist & switchboard operator for the Colorado Rockies. This gig feeds my soul in ways I have trouble articulating. One daughter, and four grandchildren. I share the house with two cats; a big goof of a cat called Grinch (named as a joke for his easy going "whatever" disposition); and Lady, a shelter adoptee with a regal bearing and sweet little soprano voice. I would be very bereft if it ever becomes necessary to keep house without a cat.
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Books Update
It's going to take me a while to list my entire log since my last update, I didn't realize it had been that long. During my rehab after my knee surgery, the vicodin had a distressing effect on my mental acuity. It was very strange - I could still do the word puzzles I love - mostly cryptograms - and I could stare woodenly at the TV, but reading and writing seemed to hover just outside my mental grasp. So my log has a gap of a few weeks. But both reading and writing picked up speed, and when I looked at the log I was startled to see how many titles were listed. So here goes - probably the first of three or four updates.
MISERY BAY by Steve Hamilton
Hamilton sets his series with protagonist Alex McKnight in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. McKnight is a retired cop, sometimes working as a private investigator. He learns of a series of deaths - of fathers who are also retired cops and a distressing follow up - adult children of the retired cops. The challenge for McKnight is to discover the link connecting the families affected by the tragedies. Hamilton's McKnight series are always good reads.
DANDELION WINE by Ray Bradbury
A book discussion selection. Bradbury is one of my all time favorites. This is an episodic and nostalgic portrait of small town Illinois life in the early years of the twentieth century. Bradbury is always worth a re-read.
FORCE OF NATURE by C J Box
Game warden Joe Pickett has an eccentric friend, Nate Romanowski. Nate lives "off the grid" and keeps in touch with his friend on a sporadic basis. Readers learn a lot in this book about what sent Nate into his nomadic and isolated existence when a former military comrade shows up in Wyoming, determined to kill Nate and seeking to draw him into view by threatening his friends. The baddie in this book is one of the most ominous villains I've ever read about.
AS THE CROW FLIES by Craig Johnson
Sheriff Walt Longmire is a witness to a young woman's fatal fall from a cliff. As he goes to investigate her death and determine her identity, he finds an infant boy, and it's clear the child's mother was the woman who died. Johnson is another author, who, like Box, lives in Wyoming and writes about the culture of that state. Johnson's characters include Cheyenne and Crow, and the reader learns intriguing details about the contemporary life of the people of those traditions.
I'll keep going on this update during the next few days. Stay tuned.
MISERY BAY by Steve Hamilton
Hamilton sets his series with protagonist Alex McKnight in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. McKnight is a retired cop, sometimes working as a private investigator. He learns of a series of deaths - of fathers who are also retired cops and a distressing follow up - adult children of the retired cops. The challenge for McKnight is to discover the link connecting the families affected by the tragedies. Hamilton's McKnight series are always good reads.
DANDELION WINE by Ray Bradbury
A book discussion selection. Bradbury is one of my all time favorites. This is an episodic and nostalgic portrait of small town Illinois life in the early years of the twentieth century. Bradbury is always worth a re-read.
FORCE OF NATURE by C J Box
Game warden Joe Pickett has an eccentric friend, Nate Romanowski. Nate lives "off the grid" and keeps in touch with his friend on a sporadic basis. Readers learn a lot in this book about what sent Nate into his nomadic and isolated existence when a former military comrade shows up in Wyoming, determined to kill Nate and seeking to draw him into view by threatening his friends. The baddie in this book is one of the most ominous villains I've ever read about.
AS THE CROW FLIES by Craig Johnson
Sheriff Walt Longmire is a witness to a young woman's fatal fall from a cliff. As he goes to investigate her death and determine her identity, he finds an infant boy, and it's clear the child's mother was the woman who died. Johnson is another author, who, like Box, lives in Wyoming and writes about the culture of that state. Johnson's characters include Cheyenne and Crow, and the reader learns intriguing details about the contemporary life of the people of those traditions.
I'll keep going on this update during the next few days. Stay tuned.
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