I am going to call this a 'what do I say' post. While I did read both of these books, there was something about each that made me pause in my decision to recommend them. Then I decided I could merely mention them, yes? (But decided to not include an image). ;-)

I have read, loved, and recommended other books by Kate Morton and The Clockmaker's Daughter started out just as well as all the others. Beautiful writing and incredible weaving of so many different story lines, I was reading far into the night. And then the ending ... which I read twice (the last forty pages or so) just to see if I missed something. It felt ... incomplete and maybe rushed? Someone else who read it feels the same way. Hmm.

And then with Three Things About Elsie, by Joanna Cannon ... it's about folks in an assisted care facility, a rather sad one, it seems. As it went along I felt sort of confused and a bit put off. Then I think I realized what the author was doing, maybe. And here's the tough part, I can't say what that was withoug it being a huge spoiler! So I'm just going to say it's about aging, and friendship, and things from the past that surface again, and perhaps a bit of hope.

Reading Hermit With Dog