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I’ve always enjoyed reading for pleasure. I can’t remember too many times in my life when I didn’t have a novel with a bookmark showing me where I’d left off and where to start up again. Even when our kids were young I usually read two or more books a week…..plus all the children's books I read out loud to them.

When COVID hit and we basically stayed home I thought reading would be one way to pass the time but it turned out that I had a hard time concentrating and actually read very few books during 2020. My book club met on Zoom and, although it was nice to see other members, it just sort of got “old” after awhile.

Last week I was watching Good Morning America as I moved around the kitchen and toward the end of the show they presented their list of recommended summer reading. I half listened and then headed off to do errands. I stopped at COSTCO for a few things and as I pushed my cart past the books on display I saw one from the GMA list and decided to buy it.

Back home, after lunch, I sat down and opened it to the first page. To say it’s a thriller is putting it mildly. I finished it at 8:00 that night (with breaks for dog walks, dinner and to rest my eyeballs). This was the author's first book and she spent ten years as a flight attendant and certainly had insights on what it meant to be moving along at 30,000 feet above the ground. If you want a good summer read look for it…..but my advice is not to read it the day before you board an airplane to go off on an adventure.