Joan in GB-W wrote:
> "Losing Mum and Pup" by Christopher Buckley - about his famous parents,
> William and Patricia Buckley. There was poignancy and sadness to those
> who deal with the death of their parents--the book covers a period of
> about a year, with many flashbacks to younger family days.  BUT, in
> spite of reading it and liking it and learning stuffs about William
> Buckley . . . there was the unkindness factor.  There were things we do
> not need to know about the Buckley's.  Why do kids of famous parents
> have to trot out family tales that are nobody's business but their own.

> "Just Take My Heart" by Mary Higgins Clark.  When will I learn to stop
> reading her.  I found it a little boring at the beginning, and
> implausible, and the bad guy stuck out so much I thought I must be wrong
> and he was just there to throw readers off the track.  Not so.  The guy
> you disliked from the start was . . . well, was the bad guy.  Also the
> thing with the heart was so unbelievable I can't believe editors let it
> get through.  But then, this is Mary Higgins Clark and I doubt her story
> lines are ever tampered with.

> Next Up:  "The Other Side of the Moon, the Life of David Nivin" by
> Sheridan Morley, and "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield (if I
> can rescue it from the shelving cart at the library.

> And while at the library I will browse the rental shelf and grab one
> from there.

> Joan