At the recommendation of my friend Laura I read “Still Life” by Joy Fielding. And I am glad I did. Boy this book keep my attention. Casey Marshall is the main character. She is beautiful, happily married and owns a successful interior design business. While returning to her car after lunching with her two best friends she is hit by a car traveling at 50 miles per hour. Every bone in her body is broken and her odds of survival are not good. What no one knows is that Casey can still hear even though she cannot move or talk. Casey finds out a lot while she is in this comatose state, including who tired to kill her.
Next I read “The Surgeon” by Tess Gerritsen. I am a fan of the TV show Rizzoli and Isles. Since this book is about the characters in the TV show or maybe the TV show is about the characters in this book……I thought I would check it out. Rizzoli is a female detective in Boston and is working on a serial killer case. She feels the need to prove herself being the only female detective in the squad. One of the lead characters in the case killed her attacker years ago…..or so she thinks. This person in question is a surgeon and still has a hard time not looking over her shoulder after her prior attack. I enjoyed this book and when I read more about the author I found that she was once a surgeon who became, in my opinion, a very good writer.
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I have just a few more photos from the Santa Fe trip that I’d like to share with you. On our drive to Santa Fe I was reading an article about a drive north of there called the Enchanted Trail. So, on day two of our journey in New Mexico we decided to make the trip and drive on the Enchanted Trail. Here are some of the things we saw.
You don’t find people with their horses parked in front of there house around where I live so this fascinated me.
This week I am off to Tennessee to teach. Sounds like it will be a fun event. I’ll tell you more when I return. I have a five hour layover in Charlotte on my return flight so I hope I can find another good book to read.