Sylvia's Simple Shots

Woke up with a fever this morning and tested positive for COVID. Yeah.

It is not surprising after the year I have had.

I will be staying home for a while and just sitting in my chair, reading, watching TV and sleeping.

I expect a decent amount of Kleenex will be used as well.

With staying at home I finished another book.

Cold Cold Bones - Kathy Reichs - Temperence Brennan living in North Carolina spends time with her daughter Katy who has recently returned to civilian life after time in the military.

Bizarre things start happening, a human eyeball with GPS coordinates, mummified corpse in a park, and more.  She works with retired detective Siddell and her Montreal based beau - Andrew Ryan.

Then her daughter disappears.

A pattern eventually emerges that these relate to previous cases Tempe has been called to work on as a forensice anthropologist.

It has a very twisted end.  

I enjoyed this book and will have to keep an eye out for otheres.  I did watch the TV series.

I found this film on my TV this week.  Toast with Freddie Highmore.

Set in 1960s England, Toast follows young Nigel Slater, a food-loving boy whose world is shaped by his mother’s terrible cooking and his father’s indifference. 

When his mother dies, a new housekeeper, Mrs. Potter, enters their lives. Skilled in the kitchen and soon romantically involved with Nigel's father, she becomes Nigel’s rival, sparking a culinary battle between them.

Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub and finds himself competing with his stepmother -- both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.

It was worth watching.

Another book I finished this week while isolating because of illness.

Buckingham Palace Gardens by Anne Perry.

The Prince of Wales has asked 4 wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to the palace to discuss a fantastic idea: a 6,000 mile railroad that would stretch the full length of Africa from the Cape to Cairo.

The gathering falls into chaos when a prostitute is found murdered in a linen closet. Inspector Thomas Pitt is called in to discreetly investigate. He brings in his maid Gracie to assist so he can access what the house staff may know - which is more than one thinks.

It rests with Pitt to solve the murder - in doing so he must reconcile his own concept of justice with those who feel it is within their right to make their own laws, whatever the consequences.

I always enjoy this time period and I have read some of her books before. 

Enjoyed the book.