The Cat Who Went Bananas by Lilian Jackson Braun

Here we are at the twenty-seventh book of this series, featuring the Siamese cat Koko (the Cat Who), the other cat Yum Yum (who sees herself in a supporting role), and Jim Qwilleran, the Sage of Pickax City, who was once a crime reporter and now spends time feeding the cats and solving mysteries. However, while we did have mysteries in this offering in the series, we really did not get them solved, which I think is pretty much the order of business in a mystery novel. I did enjoy the book, despite that lack.

The Fall of Saints by Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ

This novel is by a Kenyan writer, and is her first book; I found the book to be very good, and one that I did not want to put down.

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

This is a fascinating book, centered on the Los Angeles Public Library, founded in 1872, with seventy-two branches, and with the Central Library (the hub of the whole system) located in the Goodhue Building in downtown Los Angeles. The book also covers the 1986 fire at the Central Library, and the author’s exploration of libraries. I loved reading this book, as I have always loved books and libraries.

The Cat Who Talked Turkey by Lilian Jackson Braun (Ebook)

This is the twenty-sixth book in the mystery series with Jim Qwilleran, former crime reporter and current philanthropist, newspaper columnist, and cat-wrangler for Koko (the Cat Who) and Yum Yum, who live with Qwilleran in Pickax City, four hundred miles north of everywhere. In this book the mysteries are fairly slight, but it is still a good book.

Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

This novel, announced as an Oprah 2.0 Book Club Selection on December 2nd, 2019, is the sequel to Olive Kitteridge (2008), which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. This book is a hard book to read, as many of the stories hit close to home; but essentially the book is about relationships (or the lack of them) and about growing old.

The Cat Who Brought Down the House by Lilian Jackson Braun (Ebook)

Now at the twenty-fifth book of this nice mystery series, the Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum are devoted to helping their person Jim Qwilleran maintain his bushy mustache, his penchant for investigating mysteries, his twice a week column, The Qwill Pen, at the Moose County Something, and their high standard of living. This particular book offers few murders, but definite mystery, which I enjoyed.