Today’s picture of this magnificent, wild stretch of the Rio Grande River in the Big Bend State Park has nothing to do with the blog today, I just thought it was scenic. It would be easy to swim across the river at this point, but on both sides of the river stretches the Chihuahua desert, so I’d imagine to survive the journey, one would have to have their transportation arranged on both sides.

But enough about our immigration problems! What are we reading these days? At any one time, I’ve got a number of books started, one in my purse, one at work, one at my bedside, and on CD, one in the car, one in the bathroom, one where I dress. Yeah, I can keep ‘em all straight. For research on my book, I’m reading THE GREAT INFLUENZA, about the 1918 flu epidemic. Sheesh, I never would get through this in print, unless I skipped ahead. After 4-5 CD’s, we still haven’t gotten to the flu epidemic and the author is going through the history of medicine, and more particularly, of the founding of the Johns Hopkins. What I suffer for my art!

As for more pleasurable reading, I’m reading JD Robb’s SALVATION IN DEATH. Sigh. What every woman wouldn’t give for a Roarke in her life! I wanna be Eve Dallas when I grow up….

I’m also reading Candace Calvert’s CRITICAL CARE. Wonderful job capturing the character and souls of ER nurses, Candy. And kudos to Jill Eileen Smith, whose first book in the ”Wives of King David” series, MICHAL, I’m also reading. And then at work there’s Karen Harper’s book about Shakespeare’s “secret” wife, MISTRESS SHAKESPEARE.

What are you reading? Let’s make this blog more interactive–write and tell me!

               Blessings, Laurie