February 2016 Book Report

How to Tail a Cat (2012) by Rebecca M. Hale

4^th book in this cute series. Clive the alligator is kidnapped from his home at the aquarium. Monty is hoping to be the new interim mayor of San Francisco. Rebecca is still trying to follow Uncle Oscar’s clues as to what the heck is going on. And of course, the cats know all, but are saying very little.

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Mostly in Clover (1961) by Harry J. Boyle

Mr. Boyle was a Canadian broadcaster and writer. This book is about his childhood in rural Canada between WWI and WWII. Very folksy and entirely enjoyable.

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Stagestruck (2014) by Emily Thomas

A Blue Hills Library mystery. To raise funds to replace the roof of the local playhouse, the library hosts a mystery dinner. Anne finds herself pressured to join the cast while trying to find a missing script that a famous playwright gave Aunt Edie. Along the way, Anne finds that while she is starting to get over her husband’s death, she not ready yet for romance.

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Happy Land (1942) by MacKinlay Kantor

Short novel about a pharmacist named Lew. He followed in his father and grandfather’s footsteps as the small town pharmacist and his son was being groomed to do the same. The son, Rusty was about to get his license when he joined the Navy as a pharmacy tech at the beginning of WWII. His ship was torpedoed and Rusty never came home. Lew was so distrait that his deceased grandfather came down from Heaven to console him. Together they went through Rusty’s short life, and Lew finally made peace with it.

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Tacey Cromwell (1942) by Conrad Richter

The book takes place in a small copper mining town in Arizona in the early 1900s. Tacey is a fallen woman living with her boyfriend, his younger half-brother and a little girl they take in when her father is killed in the mines. The townspeople look down on Tacey and take the two children away from her. The boyfriend leaves her and ends up married to the daughter of the rich mine owner.