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1. What are you currently reading? Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy by Carl Sferrazza Anthony. This book shines a spotlight on 4 years of Jackie's life -- 1949 to 1954, ages 20 to 24. She goes from coed to career girl to bride. There is special emphasis on her job at the Washington Herald as "The Inquiring Camera Girl." Jackie Bouvier, who as Jackie Kennedy Onassis was wary (at best) of reporters and photographers, wrote more than 600 columns that had her snapping photos of people on the street.
While one of the more recent and buzzier books about Jackie was written by a glorified gossip columnist, Carl Sferrazza Anthony is a historian who has published serious books about our First Ladies. So I'm excited about this one. He writes sensitively about Jackie Bouvier as a young woman trying to find her way in post-war, pre-feminist America.
2. What did you recently finish reading? Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist by MC Beaton. In this book, we take off for Cyprus with our heroine, 60-something Agatha Raisin. She's retired, having sold her PR business, so she has the money and the time. But this redoubtable Brit is set in her ways, and the Cypriots confound her. So do the disparate British tourists she meets. They have nothing in common, except for being Brits, and she doesn't understand why they seem to want to do everything together ... and with her. When one of them gets dead, Agatha is eager to find the killer. After all, she's one of the suspects.
While I'm not sorry I read this, I admit it's not the strongest in the series. The setting is different and interesting, but there are too many characters, too weakly drawn. This made it hard to guess the murderer.
3. What will you read next? I don't know.
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