January 10th's Friday Post

Welcome to Friday and this week's Friday Post.  As usual, I will be linking up to:

Book Beginnings
First Line Friday
Friday 56
Book Blogger Hop

For the first three, I will be featuring quotes from Welcome Home to Murder by Rosalie Spielman.

This is the first in a series that has been on my radar for a while.  The main character has just retired from the Army, which makes her a little older than the main characters I usually read about.  Overall, I enjoyed the book.

It has a bit of humor, as you can tell from how it opens:

"I don't imagine a raccoon would turn down peanut butter, but do you really think his little hands could open the jar?"

Yes, it took me a couple of times to get that line straight in my head when I read it, but when I did, I laughed.

Meanwhile, at 56% into the book, we find this:

I smiled and waved at Aunt Edna as I got ready to pull out onto Route 8. She waved back, erratically, so I paused to look down the street.

"Oh wow, look at that."

"Holy…is that normal?" Nick gaped.

What are they seeing?  I'll let you discover that by picking up the book.

I'm aiming to have my review up on Thursday.  Of course, I have to write the review first.  Minor detail, right?

For today, however, let's finish things off with this week's Book Blogger Hop.  This week's question is:

January is National Hobby Month. Do you have any pastimes or interests other than reading that go well with your love of books and literature?

Reviewing?  Honestly, that's about it.  I try to be active as well, and I rarely listen to audiobooks while I'm running or anything like that.  And I can't watch TV while reading.  

That's it for me.  Hope you have a great weekend.