Winter has lost its allure (if it ever had any)

Our minister spoke these words on Sunday, making me feel better about the fact that I do not like winter at all.

One of my favorite authors is Walter Mosley.  He has several series and non-series.  I just finished an audiobook, When the thrill is gone : a Leonid McGill mystery.  Read by Mirron Willis and available at the Bridgeton Public Library (AUDB M Mosley).  Leonid is a dangerous man, trying to be less dangerous and work as a private detective in New York.    There are a lot of women in his life and interesting characters and clients.  His current case involves a case of women who pretend to be other people and many levels of frustration trying to get to certain other people to check things out.  An old friend dying of cancer, a wife who is sleeping with who knows how many other men, a girlfriend who is kind of distant, the connections keep getting more intriguing all the time.

This book was recommended somewhere.  It was OK.  Laura Lamont's life in pictures, by Emma Straub.  Themes are fame and the losing thereof, losing and gaining family, and the passage of time.  Laura comes from  a theater family and marries her co-star and then her director.  It is a story of success and failure in Depression era Hollywood.  You can get the book at the Vineland Public Library (FIC Straub Emma)