What are you reading the week of Sunday, April 5, 2015?

[scarletwoman]

18. Truthfully, I'm good with taking a pass on Michener.

There are plenty of famous and popular authors whom I will most likely never bother reading. I'm content for Michener to remain among them.

I know exactly what you mean about coming to the end of Doss's Charlie Moon series, knowing that there will never be any more of them. It was the same for reading the very last Hillerman novel. These wonderful authors built such rich worlds full of characters we come to love and care about - and then those worlds are gone.

There's another author I came to love a few years ago who died while his series was still progressing: Stuart M Kaminsky I totally devoured his entire Inspector Rostnikov series. The last book he published, in the year he died, was #16 in the series. You could tell there was supposed to be more to come - but then the author was gone and that was it.

I never read any of his other series, I just couldn't imagine falling in love with them like I did with the Inspector Rostnikov books. They were something very very special. If you ever run out of ideas of what to read, I think you'd probably really enjoy the Rostnikov books. They are intriguing mysteries with wonderful characters, gentle humor, the beautiful relationship between Rostnikov and his wife as they grow old together, and the totally fascinating setting of Moscow during and after the collapse of the USSR; all that history unfolding as a backdrop as the novels move through the years.

Anyway, just musing on a few of my favorite dead and dearly missed authors...