Saint Philomena: The Wonder Worker--#53 finished

A book about St Philomena, first written in the 1920s and since reprinted I guess several times.  The book I have was printed in 1993.  This book was written before there were questions about this saint and still during when she was highly venerated because there being several miracles attributed to her. Since the '60s there has been questions about the remains and the stone tiles around her when she was found in the catacombs in Rome.  Because of information on the tiles when she was discovered they believed her to be a virgin martyr.  Her remains were found in 1802 and scholars at the time researched as best they could.  The pope at the time declared her a Saint and some relics were moved to a church in Naples where several miracles occurred as well as other churches in Europe.  The writing is from an earlier time and you can tell but still overall makes a good case for St Philomena.  With there still being some questions about her, there is still a devotion to her as well.  Certainly a Saint to pray to like many many Saints.

This will stay on my keeper shelf, never know if I want to re-visit this at another time.

Mislaid--#52 finished

A kind of weird and interesting read, at times funny along with just kind of making you think.  In the early '70s a lesbian goes off to a small town all women's college and meets a professor of old money that is a gay poet.  Well they hit it off and get married and have a couple of kids together but of course this wasn't meant to last.  She is kind of nuts and fears her husband's old money will have her committed and take the kids away.  She makes a break for it and has the youngest the girl but the boy doesn't seem to understand and stays with dad.  Goes on how she is able to stay hidden and raise her daughter--changing name and race.  Also talks about son and dad growing up.  Eventually both end up a same university and at a very bad time find each other.  Story is seemingly probable and also kind of absurd which makes it a good read.  Ending was a little off to me it seemed, just too much tying up loose ends but overall did not take away from a very good read.

There are 29 WL for it so no hurry at this point to post but will probably soon to move it on to another reader.

Breaking Creed--#51 finished

Alex Kava a NE author with a Maggie O'Dell series has started a new series that Maggie is also part of with a dog trainer Ryder Creed.  Creed's dogs search for different things, drugs, people, bodies, etc and are brought in to assist police or FBI.  This is first in the series but he was introduced in the other series.  Of course there are some sexual sparks between them too.  This one was about a serial killer doing the dirty work for a drug kingpin.  They were coming after Creed but they were able to stop them and then capture the kingpin that was also a DEA agent.  Good quick action read overall.

I have posted it on PBS & will be mailing it off in the next day or so.