Each Maisie Dobbs book gets better and better & I'm pretty sad, because I do believe there is only one more. I love the historical fiction ~ it's a unique perspective to see WWII from the before it happened point of view.
#24 is
Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear ~ about the death of a 'simple' man ~ and how it leads to the necessity of keeping England safe from the threat of Germany and Hitler. I do wish that Maisie would figure out her love life...but I like how the relationship with James was left at the end of this novel. I guess Maisie is too independent to really be a married woman in the 1930's...
Quotes:
p55 ~ hail-fellow-well-met attitude {an interesting way to describe a trusting, kind person}
p222 ~ {I love the name} Elsbeth {I do}
p337 ~ After the wary, however, in the early 1920's, the government had launched a series of advertisements aimed at getting the populating out into the fresh air, encouraging people to go hill walking, which some master of the slogan had abbreviated to "hiking". {is that a true story of the birth of the term}
p341 ~ ...know he sailed close to the wind
p425 ~ even truth could bleed.
fl: Maudie Pettit pushed the long broom back and forth across the wet flagstones, making sure every last speck of horse manure was sluiced down the drains that ran along a gully between the two rows of stall. ll: Each with their own thoughts. Watching their world go by.
I do fear this is the last King and Maxwell novel ~ even though a new character has joined the team...I wonder if David Baldacci will write another one (I hope so!) #25 is King and Maxwell ~ number 6 in the series. A very fast read ~ and I've been reading so slowly lately. In this story the CIA and DOD and DHS all gang up on a poor guy to be the fall guy for a bad mission. It's all very dark and sinister in the planning & frightening at how things along this line are probably happening daily within our government. Michelle and Sean manage to narrowly escape being killed seven or eight times in very unbelievable ways...but it works for me in the fiction.
At check out Mike thows these Cinnamon Twists on the belt ~ I can't believe he bought the Cinnamon ones ~ like he totally didn't read it & thought they were the Strawberry ones. So I say, "Those are Cinnamon." MIKE SAYS, "I know. They're like breath mints, but candy." 
I am a fairy princess! Finally we were 'allowed' to dress up for Halloween & I became my true inner self ~ a fairy princess. It was amazing
Trisha made Maple Bacon cookies with Maple Bacon frosting. Notable because they are such a strange thing to come across at the Giant Eagle. Fun that Trisha bought them to let Uncle Silly Mike try them...as he loves everything bacon. They rather tasted like maple frosted donuts with a side of bacon. Not a favorite, but not horrible either.
