The Moroccan Girl--#12 finished

A kind of spy book.  A British author is recruited to help out the British government on a trip to Morocco.  The author was going to a book festival where he was speaking on a panel.  He writes about spies and all that kind of stuff, his father worked in that before too but was pushed out at one point.  The author, Kit, agrees to help out.  He does a meeting at a restaurant and was then supposed to look for a lady & give her something if he finds her.  It ends up he does find her but at same time the CIA & Russians are also looking for her and Kit realizes that his British contact may not in fact be from the British Agency but instead helping someone else--probably Russians.  A good story with a lot of twists and turns that keeps the reader guessing.  The actual writer has a few other books so will probably see about tracking some down.

There are no copies on PBS but the pages while not stained are a little stiff--not sure why but for that reason will not post on PBS and instead see about putting in a free library or something like that.

You Never Know--#11 finished

This is Tom Selleck's memoir an interesting read about his life and some of the shows he was on.  Magnum PI is the most talked about but at end touches on Blue Bloods--I didn't either of these shows.  Growing up I think CBS was seen as more old person shows--not sure why but just what I remember so never watched Magnum.  Kind of wish maybe I did but not going to track this down either.  Not really sure why I had grabbed this book to read, it was on my shelf and I knew of Tom Selleck, I think I had seen a couple of his movies but was still interesting about how he got into TV & movies and just his life in general.   Good interesting, quick kind of read.

There are 30 WL for this book on PBS but still have a bunch of credits so not posting anything at this point.

A Blaze of Glory--#10 finished

This is the 2nd series by author--he did a 3 book series on the eastern part of the Civil War, this is another 3 book series but on the western part.  This first book is on the Battle of Shiloh.  Back in college days on a trip to Nashville with a couple buddies, we veered off & went to the Civil War site of Shiloh.  This was about 30 years ago and I still remember parts of that, reading this book reminded me.  Lots of trees with also open fields between.  The bloody pond, the peach trees and the Tennessee River where Grant was with no way out unless on boats.  The river was just a kind of reminder that if the Confederates had succeeded in pushing the Union back to the river, the whole outcome of the Civil War changes--Grant's western army would be in pieces and Grant probably replaced & would never see taking over the whole army.  This is a very good telling of the story--obviously fictional in many ways but truthful in outcomes.  Good read about a very important time in our US history.

This is a keeper book for me, just need to make time to get to the next 2 books in series.