Hannah is a ten-year-old kitty adopted from the local shelter. She is a shy and quiet girl, and the resident cat, Gypsy, does not like to share. Here's hoping that the two of them will get along. If you are able, please consider adopting an animal from a shelter--many older kitties need homes.

BOOK REVIEW

Title: Mozzarella Most Murderous

Author: Nancy Fairbanks

In ten words or less: Food columnist stumbles upon body while in Italy and investigates.

Review: Carolyn Blue is a homemaker and food columnist from El Paso with two grown children. She can’t wait to accompany her chemist husband, Jason, to Sorrento, Italy, for a conference, and hopes it will be a romantic second honeymoon. But Jason’s plane get grounded in Paris because of a strike, and Carolyn is at the hotel by herself. She strikes up a conversation with a lone Italian woman, Paolina, who is waiting for her lover to arrive, and they spend the day sightseeing and commiserating with each other.
But the next morning Carolyn discovers Paolina’s body in the hotel pool. The authorities are content to write the death off as a suicide, but Carolyn doesn’t agree. With the help of another hotel guest, Bianca, the hugely pregnant wife of another chemist, she is determined to persuade the authorities that Paolina was murdered.

Why bother? Mystery lite, with recipes, which are decidedly not lite. For fans of other foodie mysteries.

MARCH'S BOOKS

These are the books I read in March. Some pretty good nonfiction, some poetry (which I don't usually read), and a really bad romance. Tara Taylor Quinn's "Merry Christmas, Babies" is the story of a beautiful, successful businesswoman who is artificially inseminated and becomes pregnant with quadruplets. Unbelievable as this may be, the most off-putting part of the book is when she has hot, wild sex well-along in her pregnancy with her business partner--up til this point they had not been romantically involved. What WAS the author thinking?

Tisserand, Michael. Sugarcane Academy: how a New Orleans teacher and his storm-struck students created a school to remember
Percy, Benjamin. Refresh, refresh: stories
Campbell, James. Ghost Mountain boys: their epic march and the terrifying battle for New Guinea, the forgotten war of the South Pacific
Jones, Jeffrey. Unaffordable nation: searching for a decent life in America
Olds, Bruce. Moments lost: a Midwest pilgrim’s progress
Holmes, Hannah. Suburban safari: a year on the lawn
Hinkes, Enid. Police cat
Horwitt, Sanford. Feingold: a new Democratic party
Quinn, Tara Taylor. Merry Christmas babies
Eugster, Sandra. Notes from Nethers: growing up in a sixties commune
Jacobson, Douglas. Night of flames: a novel of World War II
Shy, Shoshauna. What the postcard didn’t say
Lurie, Nancy. Mountain Wolf Woman, sister of Crashing Thunder, the autobiography of a Winnebago woman
Cusac, Anne Marie. Silkie: poetry
Potos, Andrea. Yaya’s cloth: poemsErskine, Kathryn. Quaking