The Rosie Effect: A Novel by Graeme Simsion(2009-10-20) by Graeme Sision, Published by Simon & Schuster Not listed in PBS, 1/21/2024.  Quick entertaining read.  Good choice when one needs a change.

Wide Blue Yonder by Jean Thompson, 1/28/2024, 2 stars.  Check out what happens to a family dealing with a member who isolates himself and focuses on weather day in and day out.

East of the Mountains by David Guterson, 2/7/2024, 4 stars.  Learning to cope with aging and the death of spouse is often very difficult.  The author does an outstanding job of dealing with both issues in this novel.

The Wishing Trees by John Shors, 2/20/2024, 3.5 stars.  Enjoyed this book as Ian copes with life after the death of his beloved wife.  He misses her so much.  However, the ending seems unrealistic to me.  As he and his daughter are completing an Asian trip which his dying wife urged him to do with their daughter, he decides at the end to marry his wife's close friend.  It seems far too soon.

The Ethical Assassin by David Liss, 4/7/2024, 4 stars

Dear Child by Romy Hausmann, Jamie Bulloch (Translator, 5 stars, ):  Told by Lena, a kidnapped woman; Hannah, her 'daughter'; and Lena's father, Matthias, whose daughter, Lena, went missing 13 years earlier, the story progresses.  Unfolding layer by layer, one views the life that Lena, Hannah and young Jonathan, Hannah's brother, endure.  They live in a small cabin in the woods locked inside by "Papa," who goes off to work, brings home food, and disciplines everyone all who must obey his rules.

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections Eva Jurczyk, 3+ stars, 4/23/2024.  An interesting tale about theft and relationships between librarians.  It drags in spots but picks up in the last few chapters.  One gets a good look at how a library and what happens as it moves from traditional ways of handling its books into modern ways of tracking its precious property and it isn't easy.  Good read.

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett