9.  Genetic Genealogy in Practice, by Blaine T. Bettinger and Debbie Parker Wayne

This is the second time I checked this book out, and it is a slight exaggeration to say I read it again. More honest is that I skimmed it.  This is a book one could study. In fact, it has questions at the end of each chapter for just that.  It did not have what I was looking for, but I did learn one thing new this time through about how one DNA company chooses which relative matches to show. I'm ready for the next level of genealogy understanding, but what I find is often either a repeat of what I already know or so complex I glaze over.  

10.  Stranger Diaries, by Kelly Griffiths

This is for one of my book clubs.  I enjoyed it, although I wouldn't have picked it for myself from the descriptions.  I like the women characters a lot.  I wasn't feeling tip-top, and used that as an excuse to read it straight through. The first character is a teacher who is writing a book. I don't get the English school jargon, like "sixth form" but I could have looked it up. Anyway, she is divorced and has a daughter, a remarried ex, friends, and a job situation that all seem reasonable. The who done it stuff makes as much sense as any of them do.  I think the author is planning to continue with the detective, but I liked the sort of victim better. Probably I won't track down a second book if it is out.

11.  The Code, by G.B. Joyce

We have been enjoying watching "Private Eyes" on television, on one of the rerun stations.  It is a fluffy mystery series, loosely based on this book.  I checked the book out of the library.  There are two or three others in the series.  It is kind of a guy's book, whatever the male version is of chick lit.  It is sharp and funny, what some other newspaper writer I won't mention shoots for and misses.  The romance that doesn't quite make sense in the television program is not in the book, and quite a few details of the situation don't match.  The male protagonist still comes through as something of the same clever, handsome, smart-alec fellow who is hard on himself. The book version guy is not celibate, as the t.v. guy appears to be. There's a lot more hockey in the book, and some problem drinking.Still, it's another nice piece of escape fiction, and I'll probably look for the next one.

6.  Evangeline, by H.W. Longfellow.  This long poem was written in the mid 1800s about events in the mid 1700s.  It was once standard ninth grade curriculum material, and it's easy to forget the beautiful writing or the historical events on which it was based.  The English weren't the good guys.

7 & 8.  Quietly In Their Sleep, and A Noble Radiance, both by Donna Leon.  I like these, and they are quick reads.  They are like the Louise Penney books in that they are murder mysteries with an inspector who has integrity when many around him do not.  Both detectives have satisfying home lives.  The wives have full-time jobs (until one of  them retires) and yet are also masterful cooks.  We never hear about house cleaning (except the kids in this series wash dishes), so this reader assumes the wives do all the housework too. Noble had a pretty unlikely story, but that won't keep me from reading another.