Starting the next 65

My light reading this month has been to continue the Wesley Peterson mysteries set in Devon. So far I’ve read The Shining Skull, Flesh Tailor, and The Blood Pit. I’ve gotten a bit out of order because of what was available at the public library. The premise is that Wesley’s friend and archaeologist Neil Watson is always working on a dig that mirrors the murders Wesley is investigating. It’s a pretty ludicrous set up by book 13 but they are fun and I’m enjoying them. My more serious fiction right now is Abraham Verghese’s The Covenant of Water which I am savouring. I’m listening to the audio book read by the author and it is achingly beautiful and sad and moving. I’m about 60% through it now and already grieving that one day soon I will finish it. Then I expect I may have to read the paper copy so I can write out the lines I never want to forget. I loved his earlier novel Cutting for Stone and kept buying copies and giving them away. I think this will happen with this one too.