We just moved into our unit and have boxes sitting around yet to be emptied. We have traveled about 2500 miles and made many visits but we are glad to be in one place for the next 6 weeks. Despite many hours in the car, we haven't had too much chance to read. However, I will mention two books that have been fun. One is Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey and the other is The First Rule of Ten by Gay Hendricks. Both are fictional detective crime stories.
Kwei Quartey is a physician living in California but his story is set in Ghana, the land of his birth. His hero is Darko Dawson and the problem relates to the practice of appeasing gods and countering spells by giving a daughter to the local fetish priest. She is "honored" at 12 or 16 or so and becomes yet another one of the priest's wives for the rest of her life but supposedly she is actually a wife of the gods themselves. The AIDS disease and health workers and a murder propel the story, which we listened to on an Audible.com recording. The book has good reviews and is worth giving a try.
Gay Hendricks is a psychologist whose writings have helped me for decades. He is an experienced guide in marital relations and self-knowledge. He knows meditation well and is a very clear, experienced and imaginative writer. I had no idea that he had branched out into fiction until recently. "Ten" is the nickname of Tenzing Norbu, a Tibetan detective member of a California police. He knows ways to keep himself calm and focused in the midst of tension, danger and confusion. He is investigating suspicious deaths as part of his first attempt to work as a private detective. This book we are reading aloud and have not quite gotten to the middle yet. I am betting things will work out.
Now that I am settled for a while, I will write more often and more regularly.
Bill
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