TGIF. Glad the week is almost done. No service manager all week.
I'm on to plan G for the scavenger hunt prompt "book in a long series". I'm going to try a couple and see how it goes. First up, a series I've not read before but been aware of.
THE SUNDAY PHILOSOPHY CLUB by Alexander McCall Smith. 1st of 15 in series featuring Isabel Dalhousie, a Scottish-American editor of the esteemed Review of Applied Ethics and a woman of independent means in Edinburgh.
Isabel is fond of problems, and sometimes she becomes interested in problems that are, quite frankly, none of her business. This may be the case when Isabel sees a young man plunge to his death from the upper circle of a concert hall in Edinburgh. Despite the advice of her housekeeper, Grace, who has been raised in the values of traditional Edinburgh, and her niece, Cat, who, if you ask Isabel, is dating the wrong man, Isabel is determined to find the truth—if indeed there is one—behind the man's death. The resulting moral labyrinth might have stymied even Kant. And then there is the unsatisfactory turn of events in Cat's love life that must be attended to.
Published 2004; 272 pages. I have this from the library as well as the audiobook.
And/or a series I'm already in.
MURDER ON THE SEA WITCH by Irina Shapiro. 7th of 14 in Redmond and Haze historical mystery series.
When the body of a renowned British archeologist is found inside a sarcophagus he was bringing back from a dig in Egypt, Redmond and Haze must determine who aboard the Sea Witch had reason to want him dead. The method of murder suggests it was someone familiar with the funerary rites of the Ancient Egyptians, casting suspicion on members of the expedition, but there were others aboard the vessel who might have harbored a grudge against Blake Upton for reasons unconnected to the dig. Confronted with professional jealousy, affairs of the heart, simmering resentment, and corrosive blame, Redmond and Haze must solve the case before the killer strikes again.
Published 2022; 278 pages.
And I'm still enjoying A BEAUTIFUL MIND. And not just John Nash, whose story is told not just because of his mathematical prowess but mostly for the trajectory of his career and loss into schizophrenia -- but also the others who were geniuses of that Queen of Sciences during that time.
No sprints tonight ... tomorrow afternoon, yes. Otherwise, no plans. Reading, crocheting, napping, walking Keo, etc.
Have a good weekend
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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