Sisters First--#113 finished

This is a book by George W & Laura Bush's twin daughters.  It is written as a couple page memories of growing up in the family & extended family too.  Lot of info about their grand parents on both side as well.  An unusual life growing up it would seem with 8 years in the TX governor's mansion and then during college years home was the White House.  Secret Service watching over you.  Knowing whatever you are doing could end up making some kind of headlines if seen in a bad light, seems like a tough way to grow up.  Sounds like both have grown into outstanding young adults so good to see.  Made me wish at times for the old Republican party that their grandpa and dad were part of, not the newest version with Maga types.

I will be handing this one off to my mom, I think she will enjoy it. 

Uganda Be Kidding Me--#112 finished

This is a Chelsea Handler book.  This one is about a trip to South Africa and Botswanna to different parks with resorts to see the animals.  Some seeing of the animals, a lot of drinking, eating & flirting with workers too.  Later parts of book are about other trips she has taken, ski trips to Montana and Austria and crazy happenings there.  I think she is kinda funny in that she is basically an open book, she does something and she writes it no matter how crazy.  If she is holding back, you have to wonder what could that be.  I have read a few of her books and have a few more that I haven't read on hand too.  Just a funny kind of break from the other books that I read.

So far I am keeping these books, not sure if will eventually post on PBS or maybe just donate away.

Mirage--#111 finished

This is a book that has been on my shelf for a long time, maybe a decade.  I remember looking at it & thinking should just post on PBS or give away but reading the blurb on back & inside cover, I always put back on shelf for another time.  Finally I pulled off of shelf a couple weeks ago and it became the next one to be read.  It is about an older man living in a desert country in mideast.  He is now living in a city but in a shanty town moving here several years ago from a small village.  Family back at village talks him into marrying a young widow with a daughter from the village.  The struggles of putting the marriage together and then moving her & daughter to his shanty home.  You hope things turn out for them as they seem like nice people just really struggling with that change from a rural village to a town in the desert.  Things take an ugly turn at end of book though and that is how it ends.  I guess there is a 2nd book but didn't enjoy this one enough to search out the next one.

I will post this book on PBS finally and it will be the only copy in the system.  No idea if it will move or if will sit for years on this shelf now. 

B is for Burglar--#110 finished

This is the first book finished in December and will see how many end up with at end of year.  This is obviously the 2nd in Kinsey Millhone series.  Again re-reading this series, it has been a while and is just enjoyable reading about the time of late 1980s.  Fun to see the characters that recur throughout series getting introduced.  This one has a little of everything--murder, burglary, impersonation, threats, vandalism, etc.  Good read & good restart to series.

These are on my keeper shelf so will be putting it back there.

Gone Feral--#109 finished

I had read the another book by Novella Carpenter, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, which was a really good read about her taking over an empty inner city lot and making a garden and pens for animals.  Funny and easy to read so I figured I would check out another book by her.  This one is about a kind of search for her father as well as about her growing up.  Her parents were kind of back to the farm hippies that bought 180 acres in small kinda nowhere Idaho.  Novella has an older sister as well.  It sounds like they were kind of free range kids while parents made a go of it but eventually marriage ended and mom moved to Washington small town to teach.  Dad stayed in Idaho and sort of became a kind of mountain man--living off odd jobs but mostly cutting down trees.  Daughters didn't really stay in touch and now as Novella around age 36 wants to have a child, she also wants to connect with father and book is about that.  Her dad has issues, still living a kind of mostly off grid existence but I guess connected enough to town that people noticed when went missing for a few weeks.  Maybe has mental issues that are genetic or maybe related to time in Korea just after the war, not really sure.  Good read about struggles people have, especially people in unusual circumstances.

There are no copies in system for this book and her earlier book that I also read.  I might post book at same time at some point but again have enough credits on PBS so in no hurry to do so. 

One Life--#108

This is a book by Megan Rapinoe about her life, she is the women's soccer player that is outspoken and changes hair color before big matches, at least that is what I knew about her before reading this book.  A good read about her life growing up, family and soccer.  Obviously a lot about soccer and the women's national team.  There is also a lot about her life and being one of the first professional athletes to be Out.  Overall a good read about an interesting person.

There are 3 WL for this book on PBS, it is a large print copy so maybe that is part of the reason since other copies are showing available.  I have enough credits so not mailing at this point.

The Atlas Maneuver

This is the next in the Cotton Malone series.  This series focuses on Cotton a semi retired intelligence officer that gets pulled back into jobs that end up more complicated than what he was told.  His girlfriend is also pulled into help a different part of this job so they are separated for all the action.  This is about gold and riches the Japanese stole from conquered countries in WWII and that Japan hid in bunkers in the Philippines.  The CIA found some of these riches and moved them to Switzerland and used the money for covert operations over the years.  Well eventually a bank in Luxembourg has control of this but more importantly also has the founder of Bitcoin and is working to get a controlling amount of Bitcoin.  They want 3rd world type countries to setup Bitcoin as their reserve money to make Bitcoin more powerful and then this bank will have more power and money.  A few story lines running around, along with an old girlfriend of Cotton's and probably a previously unknown daughter--not for sure yet but probably important in next book.  A good fun read, easy to read and enough action to keep story moving.

There are 21 WL for this book but have enough credits for now and with holidays here post office gets busy so probably not sending anything out if don't have to.