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http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com I've finished Doctor At Thessaly by Anne Zouroudi. Have the next one on hold at the library. I think it's the first book in the series. I'm half way through What Is Visible by Kimberly Elkins. So, I'm spending  quite a bit of time on it. Would like to finish two books this week. I dare not say three. Shouldn't say two. The other books have bookmarks. This is my second reading of Veronika Decides To Die by Paulo Coelho. I'm getting so much from the second reading. I might as well discount the first reading of it. The Lost Highwayman? What can I tell you? It's all that. So much fun. In that one, I'm in Scotland in a huge estate with a Highlander. In The Devil Riding by Valerie Wilson Wesley, I'm in Atlantic City, N.J. A place very familiar to me before the casinos came along.

In my dreams, he kissed  me gently and long pleasantly like the sun long on a summer's day while red, yellow purple umbrellas close the eyes of gulping fish jumping green waves to reach inside me to steal a wet kiss for themselves.

" Sarah was stung by the remark and realized she was being dismissed. Laura adored Dorothea Dix and was always on her best behavior for those visits. The reformer was nearly as devoted to Laura's cause as she was to helping the insane. Nearly ten years had passed since she'd brought about the changes to Massachusetts' asylums. Before her graphic reportage, the poor lunatics had been tied up, kept in pens, lashed, starved. Sarah read in the paper that Miss Dix was now establishing hospitals in Illinois and North Carolina. history.com/topics/womens-history/dorothea-lynde-dix

" How little they trot me out for show these days, and yet here I am this frigid morning, brought down from my room to meet a child , and me not out of my sickbed two weeks. They're actually calling her "the second Laura Bridgman." The second, and I'm still here! I didn't like children even when I was one, and now I think them worse than dogs. I've shriveled and so they've searched for another freak in bloom to exhibit and experiment on. It's taken Perkins decades to find one pretty enough, quick enough. Well, pretty is really the important thing, or at least not too strange or looking like what she is. Not looking like what I am." http://bibliophilebythesea@blogspot.com

"A loud harrumph came from Janette's right. "She can pass if she wants to. I wouldn't be in no wedding if my sister was marrying my ex-boyfriend, " Pamela said.  "As a matter of fact, I wouldn't even be in town that day." shouldbereading.wordpress

I've finished The Doctor of Thessaly by Anne Zouroudi. Now, I'm reading Breaking All The Rules by Rhonda McKnight, The Returned by Jason Mott, What Is Visible by Kimberly Elkins and The Devil Riding by Valerie Wilson Wesley. http://bookjourney.wordpress.com

My book is a Kindle e-book.   I f you would like to feel as though you've taken a trip to Greece, this is the perfect novel. Anne Zouroudi in The Doctor of Thessaly has written a mystery filled with true to life characters or at least, characters you would not mind getting to know. The characters are a mite eccentric but very real. There is the woman in the village who cooks bad coffee. The whole town knows it. They still choose to go to the establishment for a chat and a cuppa. There are the two sisters, Noula and Chrissa. The eldest is expected to marry first. That would be Noula. Life doesn't always happen in the pattern we pick. There is the mechanic's wife. She keeps hundreds of old, old photographs taken by her father. She will not try to sell them because the sales would disappoint her sick mother. There are more characters. The most important character is the Fat Man. He is a private investigator visiting from Athens.  There is a jilted bride,  Chrissa. Her