Where is everyone?  I am working on Long Live the King (Love & Inheritance, Bk 2) by Fay Weldon plus some science fiction/fantasy novels in series that I hope to finish!

I am reading Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan.  I haven't been able to get into any HF books so far this year....

Have lost Fay Weldon so read O Jerusalem (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Bk 5) by Laurie R. King, 3/8/2014, 4 stars.  Lots of history about the area.  If one is familiar with the area they will find it fascinating.  Story was very good, too.

Hello, all!  I finished Moloka'i earlier this week and am now reading Daughter of the Red Deer.  Good to get back into some pre-historical fiction.  I loved Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear series, and it's been years and years since I read it.  Still not listening to any audio books.  I've been too wrapped up in podcasts and YouTube videos.  It's spring, and it's time for me to get more hands on with my lage collection (around 70) or houseplants.  Winter is a fairly boring time to be a houseplant parent.  Most plants don't do much except the bare minium to survive, so there's not a lot to do with them. 

I found Moloka'i to be okay.  It didn't captivate me as most of the books I've read so far did, so it took me longer than necessary to read it.  I didn't dislike it; I was just not overly interested in it.  It was enlightening (and sad) to read about life in a leper colony.  

The lost is found so back to Long Live the King (Love & Inheritance, Bk 2) by Fay Weldon

I've been reading mostly memoirs and YA lately, but I'm just starting The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles. Another time hopping HF! 
 

Just Finished The First Lady and the Rebel by Susan Higginbotham. Very good telling of the life of Mary Todd Lincoln

Sound like a good one Alice.  Thanks for the recommendation!  The library had a copy and it was checked in so I have reqeuested it.

I started Dreaming Spies by Laurie R. King, the 13th book in her Russell/Holmes series.  I've been a bit disappointed in a couple of the previous books (I even DNF'd Pirate King, it was so awful), but this one so far seems to be back on track to the better books in the series.  

CR

Hello!  I finished Daughter of the Red Deer, which I liked.  I've got a couple of other pre-historic fiction books on my shelf that this has motivated me to get to sooner rather than later.  However, in the meantime I have started The Poisoned Pilgrim, which is the 4th in the Hangman's Daughter series by Oliver Potzsch. It doesn't fit into any of the 2022 HF Challenge categories, but I've decided to give up my Kindle Unlimited membership (because I just don't use it enought), and this was a book I had borrowed and I need to read it before my subscription expires early next month. However, after getting about 25% of the way through it, I realized I also have this book in my Audible library.  Grrr.  Oh well, I haven't been listening to audio books lately, so I might as well just continue with the written version. 

Read Days of the Dead by Barbara Hambly.  Very good.  Full of Aztec beliefs, crazy people, and lots of action.  By the way Shelley I have Red Deer on my shelf but haven't yet read it.  Appreciate your comments.

I am starting Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry.  It's the last book chronilogically in his Lonesome Dove series.

Reading The First Lady and the Rebel by Susan Higginbotham, recommended by Alice above.  Good so far.  As I finish this book I am saddened once again by the events of the CIVil War.  War is senseless and cruel.  So much is destroyed and so many lose their lives - both soldiers and civilians.  Will our world ever see peace?