Exploiting the cute factor every once in a while

Today's Blog/Website of the Day is Naked Authors found at http://www.nakedauthors.com/index.html. "A cop, a Brit, a deb, a B-school grad, a guy with good hair, and a wisecracking lawyer wrestle with the naked truth about literature and life."

Finished VANISHED by Joseph Finder. Well done "business thriller" and the start of a new series. Voice is very important as an author and some just flow and Finder -- when he's on his game and as this book is -- has got flow. All the elements come together in story and character and language that just draws your eyes and attention along so smoothly.

Currently reading the next in series for me by Deryn Lake, DEATH ON THE ROMNEY MARSH. This is 4th of 13 in series featuring John Rawlings, an apothecary and associate of John Fielding, mostly in 18th century London. Here is a description:

Summoned to attend a patient in a house near the lonely Romney Marsh, Rawlings does not suspect that he is walking into a web of conspiracy, intrigue and mystery. Until he discovers a body near a deserted church, bearing a coded document. Rawlings reports the case to London's famous blind magistrate John Fielding who identifies the victim as a French spy master. So Rawlings returns to the marshes to investigate who, amongst the colourful local characters, could be harbouring politically explosive secrets...

It was published in 1998 and has 210 pages.

A friend of mine is getting married today but because of my medical/physical state I am unable to attend. She has many friends and family who will be there but I feel badly that I won't be able to show her my support and friendship. A part of her knows what's been happening with me, a part of her will be so emotional with the wedding that she won't even notice what's going on around her, a part of her will know that I wasn't a participant. Ah life.

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster