What Fiction are you reading this week, November 25, 2018?

[hostalover]

12. Two books:

]Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate This was a highly recommended book and while I thought the writing was only so-so, the story, based on true events, was fascinating. It's the story of an adoption ring run by unscrupulous people in So. Carolina in the 30's, 40's and even 50's. Babies and children were stolen mainly from poor people, put in an orphanage, and eventually sold to wealthy parents for adoption. Not all of the children made it out of the orphanage, tho.

Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke Mr. Burke tells a good story, but boy, does he use a LOT of words! I liked the main characters very much and the villains were properly dispensed with. The story concerns a young American soldier who rescues a young Jewish woman from a concentration camp at the end of WWII, eventually marries her, and all sorts of adventures await them in America!