Friday Reads 2/20/2026

Hoooweee! I am tired. I feel like I am every so slowly working through my everlasting to-do list, but man I'm worn slick. I've been reading, but I haven't really made progress. Let's discuss.

Medicine River by Mary Annette Pember - I'm about 25% through this one now. So far we have just gone through the whole beginning of the Indian Schools program and how it grew. A little bit at a time we are hearing about the author's mother. Her cousins got to go home at the end of the day, but she had to stay. Her grandmother said it is because her no-good father wouldn't give her money to feed them. Once her own mother came to see her at the Indian school and told her she had got married to a white man and the kids had to stay there. She wrote her mother off at that point. That's where I am.

Random In Death by J. D. Robb - As promised, I started this one as soon after I finished the last one as I could. I might be addicted. I might need an intervention. The good news is, I'm not paying money for them. Thanks, library.

The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl - I started this the other day. I'm not really sure what's going on, yet. I'm only 2 chapters in. Our narrator is a young man in NYC in the late 1880s that works as a waiter on a train. He makes friends with the bookseller who comes on the train to sell books. Our narrator is a voracious reader, though he doesn't have a lot of extra money to buy books. One day he follows the bookseller to a courthouse where a man is on trial and there is a huge crowd watching. Later, he asks the bookseller who was the man on trial and is told he is a Bookaneer. That's all I know.

I am going to see a musical Saturday night. No reading then, because I have to get to bed so I can be at church at 7:30 Sunday morning to ring bells. I will have some time in the afternoon, but it may be spent on chores. We have our last dance rehearsal Sunday evening before we perform next Sunday. On Monday, I have a nail appointment and then the heat and air people are coming to do a check of our systems. Monday night is bell practice. There is room for quite a bit of down time. Here's hoping I use some of it for reading!