over 25 years ago, so they're new again. Currently on Curfew.

Best of luck with your cataract surgery. Everyone I know who has had it says they wish they did it sooner.

Mr. Rickman has a very impressive list of novels. Lots of mystery, thrillers, the occult & supernatural. Once I get my new eyes in I'll be looking to read some of those.

Had my cataracts removed and new lenses in January. Works great.

Glad to hear that.

The Mercies: Inspired by real events. After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat.

Sounds great.

"The Sacred Bridge" continuing the Jim Chee/Joe Leaphorn stories in the Southwest. This one's set around Lake Powell. I previously read her other novels which are a good continuation of Tony's books.

I like Anne's books, too.

Craig Johnson’s latest Walt Longmire ‘Return to Sender’.

Set in the red desert of southern Wyoming, largest living dunes in the US.

Walt goes undercover as a mail carrier on the longest postal route of 300+ miles. He’s searching for the previous mail carrier who has vanished.

Also a UFO cult, new governor putting the screws to Walt over Cady
being the next AG. Henry, Ruby, Lucian cameos. And Dog.

Old west hotels and bars and cars. Rattlesnakes. Coyotes.

Book started strong but too many subplots lost the focus.

But Walt triumphs in the end.

Glad to hear that. It's been a while since I read a Longmire novel but I always enjoy them.

"A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland. No one is safe."

I enjoyed it, and now have to find the others in the series.

Halfway through, "Never Flinch," Stephen King's latest.

"Intertwining storylines—one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker—featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters."

Very good, so far. But I'm a little bit prejudiced. I'd read King's grocery list.

Do well with your surgery, Hermetic. Please keep us posted.

I'd read that grocery list, too.

This Cozy is by Eva Gates, Shot Through the Book 📕 Part of rhe Lighthouse Library mysteries. Lucy McNeil lives in a beach house on the Outer Banks and runs the local library located in a lighthouse.

Just finished Bury the Lead. Am starting, Play Dead. Gotta love Andy Carpenter, Tara, and Marcus. My favorite is when Andy and Kevin song talk.

I had cataract surgery over a year ago. Trust me you will be happy, happier, happiest after. The world will become brighter and wonderfully clear. I will be thinking of you on Tuesday.

I will be so happy to be able to drive again. It's been a couple of months now.

I know a lot of people who have had it and wished they had done it sooner. I’m finishing up More or Less Maddy by Lisa Genova. It’s about a college student’s first year after being diagnosed with bipolar. Genova has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and she can really get the reader inside a character’s brain.

See ya next week .

"More or Less Maddy is destined to become another classic like Still Alice."

This is a thoroughly tongue-in-cheek “romantic novel” by an author better known as WEB Griffin. Butterworth wrote scores of books under God knows how many noms de plume.

In the 1980s he hit on a formula, and a name, that made him famous, and dump trucks full of money, with series like The Brotherhood of War, The Corps, Badge of Honor and others. The Hunting Trip ain’t those. The most commonly recurring phrase is “expletive deleted,” which those of us of a certain age will well remember. I approached this with some reluctance, but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it.

Good luck with your surgery. I had it done a couple of years ago, and was nervous, but it was a piece of cake. The worst part were the eye drops afterwards. Still, well worth it to be glasses free for the first time in nearly 60 years.

I looked up The Hunting Trip and the book cover has a picture of a woman on a mattress with bare legs, in high heels, like a cheesy paperback from the 50s-60s. Then the book genre is: Suspense Action Adventure Thriller Military.
"... a raucous series of adventures across Europe and the United States that will have readers laughing, cheering, and propulsively turning the pages to discover what happens next." A must read, for sure.

Nowdays we start the eye drops 2 days prior to surgery, which is today. I usually don't mind drops but these sting, like salt water. Ah well, this too shall pass.

although I didn’t realize it until you mentioned it. Your description could not have been more accurate! Many readers of Butterworth (Griffin) hate this book, probably because it deviates from his familiar formula. I am not among those haters.

Because I’m diabetic, I had two kinds of drops. They caused my eyelids to itch terribly. Hot washcloths helped.

100 pages into "Badlands" by Preston & Child. So far, interesting plot. More next week.

Mr.s P & C always do a good job, IMO.

The story takes place in New Mexico when the bones of a woman is discovered new Chaco Canyon. FBI Agent Corrie Swanson is in the 18th month of her FBI probationary period and her supervisor/mentor has put her in-charge of the case. Beside the body are two rocks Swanson thinks might be important. When another body, freshly deceased, is discovered with the same type of rocks she calls in Nora Kelly, an anthropologist from New Mexico University. The question they have to answer is were the deaths of the two women suicide or or some type of human sacrifice. Together, they uncover what could be a mystic cult tied to an ancient tribe that disappeared 1,200 years ago.

Easy reading, but truly fiction because in real life things don't work out that easy. It could be a stress reliever though.