It's Monday! What Are You Reading? Rushing toward the end of the year!

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I am nearly finished with :

The front of the book:

"This majestic, moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives."  _ Chicago Tribune

A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940's. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death.  The story revolves around Grant Wiggins struggle to honor his aunt's request of him to visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death. It is a compelling story with moving dialogue and a unique insight into the Cajun community in the 1940's. I wonder how that has changed in our present time. I will never know, but I can hope that it has changed for the better.


I also got started on :

From Goodreads:

The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike #1)

by Robert Galbraith (Pseudonym), J.K. Rowling

3.84 of 5 starsA brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.

I am also listening to two books:

This one with my husband as we traveled for the holidays. We have 3 more discs to finish. 

This one I am listening to by myself. I have 5 discs left to finish it. Finding alone "me time" is hard.
Hopefully, I will complete these before the end of the year.

Until next time,
Stay Busy and Stay Happy