CANDLELIT CHRONICLES: HISTORIC HAUNTS

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On this date:


1969-first human walk on the Moon


Carlos Santana born


July 19:


Lizzie Borden born


Edgar Degas born





Over the weekend I read Precipice by Tom Savage, a page-turning suspenseful “domestic” thriller set in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, by an author who himself is a native. I must admit the surprises kept coming and kept me on the edge of my seat right through to the very final page.





Sunday and Monday I read a Christian mystery, The Dandelion Killer by Wanda Luttrell, also a page-turner. Then Monday evening I stayed up late to read in its entirety Dean Koontz's 2004 novel The Taking. Since I had finished all my current stack of library books on Saturday and won't get more until the out-of-town delivery of my reserve books to the Library this week (not yesterday, so will be today, tomorrow, or Thursday-our small town library closes on Friday-Sunday as do the City Offices)-I went searching through my stacks and boxes of books for reads, and pulled out both The Taking and Marilyn Harris' Portent, both of which of course I had read much earlier. I find that I read SO much that books I read even a couple years ago can profitably be reread and enjoyed “as new.”





         I chose both of these because they struck me as “environmental apocalypse” novels, or “The Earth fights back.” Well, on the first count, I was right about The Taking, not on the second, but let me tell you: I did not go to sleep until I had closed that book after the final page. My hair stood on end, my eyes bugged out, my jaw dropped, and I turned pages at nearly the speed of light.





Reader, find this book and read it!!