Borrowing has been pretty tricky, since they used to leave them for 3 days due to COVID prevention. Then there are no penalties if you are late. Libraries have reinvented themselves. It's been a challenge. We tried the Libby app, but I wasn't thrilled.
We are all avid readers. Josephine has several books out from her library. Momma sent a photo of her new desk, high school kids have homework. But check out the library books she has in her bedside table! What a great young lady. She turns 14 in December. I turn 65!
Ottawa libraries are a big deal. There are no fines, but after after 90 days there is a replacement fee to buy the book. I really like that idea.
I prefer female authors, as well as female protagonists. (I like mysteries.) Some of the men are too violent, crude or coarse. These have been wonderful, with strong, yet vulnerable leading women. These three writers do that for me. I like the mystery as it unfolds, with details unfolding slowly. Peeling the onion layer by layer, clue by clue. They aren't heavy reads, as we are still dealing with health issues, and it takes me out of my head at bedtime.
2. Shallow end : A Stonechild and Rouleau mystery #4, Brenda Chapman.
1. Valley of the lost: : a Constable Molly Smith novel #2, Vicki Delany. <= This one I'm enjoying.
2. Shallow end : A Stonechild and Rouleau mystery #4, Brenda Chapman.
I'm on book #4. What I like about this series is that it takes place in Kingston, for the most part. JB went to uQueens, and we had family ties to Kingston, so we were frequent visitors. I know the streets whereof she writes, and I find it quite enjoyable. Not only that, but one character used to teach in Winston Churchill School. I taught there, but in Ottawa! I drove 2 km to work and drove through 15 traffic lights from our home. It was my last Ottawa teaching assignment before I went to Muskoka to care for my parents.
The new technology around libraries is quite incredible, much more developed during the pandemic. Online I can find similar titles or similar authors. The best part, however, is checking my borrowing history and figuring out what is next. Some days my brain is pretty feeble.
3. The Crossing Places: a Ruth Galloway mystery #1, by Elly Griffiths.
I'm still waiting for this one, reserved in May! I went on to read #2, and, I think #3, but I cannot remember. Don't you love old age?!
That said, I have enjoyed reading so much over the past while. Have you been borrowing books? What are you reading?
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