I finished Body Work this week and while it did have a slow start, it picked up after a while and I got involved in the plot and some of the characters, once they were finally introduced. It remained a plot that had trouble hanging together, though. Loose ends were finally tied up, but by then my interest in those plot segments had waned. I would recommend this book only to dedicated mystery readers.
So now I have to choose a new book, and I'm thinking about River Horse, by William Least Heat-Moon. All the current talk of rivers and flooding has got me interested in reading about them. River Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America chronicles a journey the author took from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, all by river. I bought the book quite a while ago, and have been wanting to find the time to read it. But now it seems I have run out of excuses. The book's not short, though: 528 pages. Perhaps that's what discouraged me from reading it before; like Jackie Robinson, the daunting heft of River Horse kept it on the shelf all these years.
But no more. River Horse will fall like the others, and I will be better for it. And so, I hope, will you!
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