I used to get most of the books I read from used book stores, then sell them back when I was done reading. This, as most of you who read know, is almost entirely a thing of the past, much to my dismay. There are of course discounted books from Amazon (the reason most of the independent bookstores have gone out of business in the first place), books given to me by friends who also read, and other random sources. But the most usefull place I've found to get current literature in as great a quantity as I want, is at the library. I have been pleasantely surprised at what I've found there. So most of what I'm currently reading is dictated by what I can find at my local library.
One author I've recently discovered at the library is Jane Kirpatrick. She has written 16 historical novels, often about the lives of ordinary women. The book I just finished is called An Absence So Great. It is an historical novel about her grandmother Jessie Ann Gaebele, one of the country's first female photographers, with dreams of opening her own studio at a time when this was almost completely unheard of. I loved this book, and I look forward to reading more from Jane Kirkpatrick.
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