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Check These Out: March 9, 2017

By Dorathy Bobzin

For several hours a week, I work at the Huntley Library re-shelving items. During this process, opportunity presents itself for me to peruse materials Iā€™d not see while looking on my own. Very often I say to myself, oh, that looks interesting … and then I keep it or jot down the info. Iā€™ll share some with you that pique my interest.

After Visiting Friends: a sonā€™s story
by Michael Hainey
B HAI

A Chicago friend recommended this book, a combination biography, mystery, newspaper story, myth-buster. The author was 6 when his young, Chicago newspaper-man father died late one night of a heart attack, after work, after visiting friends in 1970. Years later, the pieces of the family story, news articles, the obituary details, just donā€™t add up in the mind of his younger son, now a young newsman himself. Writer, perhaps, but Michael Hainey spent years being a detective.

Elegy for Eddie
by Jacqueline Winspear
Mystery FIC WIN

Normally I donā€™t read mysteries, but on the recommendation of another friend, I read the first in this authorā€™s ā€œMaisie Dobbsā€ series. A London setting, 1933, brings Maisie, a psychologist and investigator, to the working class neighborhood of her childhood. A friend of her Dadā€™s was killed in a violent accident. Of course, it was not an accident or there would be no story to write!

The Penny Jumper
by James Grippando
FIC GRI

Grippando seems to be a popular author as I shelve his works frequently. This one looked appealing because itā€™s new and thin, only 187 pages. A penny jumper, according to the inside flap, is a computer algorithm used by high frequency traders. I remember a 60 MINUTES segment about such goings-on. Somehow, a young astrophysicist gets involved with a Wall Street firm to pay some of her education debt while she struggles with her own specialized telescope project. Probably in a galaxy far away that would not be a problem.

Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016
810.8
BES 2016

An anthology of contemporary short stories collected by 18 high school students who met weekly for one year making their selections; this could be really great or too far out for me. But I like short stories, so Iā€™m going to take a gamble.





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