Early wishes for a happy holiday to all, seeing as how all the locations in which I can access the internet will be closed tomorrow. I have tentative plans for a barbecue and firework watching with the girls next door, so we'll see how that happens.
Just finished reading: Locked Rooms, by Laurie R. King. The newest Mary Russell installment, with quite a different set up than her other books in the series, the reasons for which she attempts to explain in the beginning. Mary starts to investigate the details of her past, especially the auto accident that killed her family and which she had repressed for years. It's probably an important stage in the development of her character, and interesting that it is connected to an incident in an earlier book, but it is certainly not the best work of the series.
Keeping Watch, by Laurie R. King. One of King's stand-alone novels, which tend to be darker than her series, but also much more psychologically rich with often the same amount of action. This novel tracks Allen Carmichael's last assignment of removing abused children from their homes (often by less-than-legal means), and how the way in which this boy Jamie stays with him is linked to his horrific experiences fighting in Vietnam. King captures both the mental struggle of a man trying to survive war with a shred of humanity as well as the conflicting love, hatred, and terror of an abused child in an amazing and penetrating way.
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