Reading list#3

1. The Girl in the Painting by Tea Cooper takes place late 1800’s and early 1900’s in Australia orphans and a mystery to unravel about a woman’s identity. Very good.
2. The Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar WW2 women who transported planes to airfields around the country for the military and a love story. Very good. For book club.
3. Alaska by James Michener very long book…..but very good fiction and history of Alaska.
4. The Professor’s House by Willa Cather a very short book 170 pages. I have read other books by Willa Cather that I liked much better. 
5. Mornings on Main by Jodi Thomas fluff, sitting on the deck kind of book. Takes place present day in Texas a young woman is cataloging quilts in a quilt shop for a museum exhibit also looking for her family. One glaring error early in the book…some one had an angora rabbit and the fur was woven into yarn…..anyone who knows anything about fiber whether in cloth or yarn the fibers are ‘spun’ into yarn or thread before they are woven. The story had a happy ending.
6. The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier a story about swapped identities, family relationships, failing business, can the one who was forced into the other man’s life pull it off? Very good!!
7. The House on Blackberry Hill by Donna Alward a young woman inherits the rundown family mansion from her grandmother’s sister.  Reads like a hallmark movie.
8. The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson for book club Native American story takes place in Minnesota. The gardeners in book club enjoyed this story more than the non gardeners. Part of the story is historical going back to 1860’s the rest is modern day about a young Indian girl in foster care then marrying a farmer and learning to garden. Eventually she reconnects with her Native American family.
9. The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny more adventures into Three Pines and murder and Inspector Armand Gamache with lots of references to Emily Carr an early Canadian artist I need to find the novel about her and re read it.  The book was titled Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland.
10. The Summer House by Lauren K. Denton I enjoyed The Hideaway so much I thought I would read another of her books. This was about forgiveness, second chances, starting over and friendship. Nice story with a happy ending but characters rather ordinary.
11. One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle takes place on the Amalfi coast of Italy a story about grief and finding yourself. Happy ending.  I only read it because I was there a couple months ago.
12. Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland I had to read this again after reading The Brutal Telling the story takes place in British Columbia in early 1900’s about the artist Emily Carr. She paints the forests and totem poles of western Canada in bold colors and thick paint. Very good!
13. Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn contemporary romance, lettering artist and a numbers guy. Just for fun. 
14. How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith for book club, Black history a reckoning with the history of slavery across America.