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Friday, January 14, 2022

 Finished: 56 Days (Howard) A very good, page-turning book about two Dubliners who meet in a food mart line just days before the country goes into lockdown due to the first round of Covid. They have two dates before the announcement and they spontaneously decide to move in together for the two week lockdown. What better way to get to know each other? Ciera is 25 and seems to be very unsure of herself. Oliver, 29, is more outgoing, but is guarded for his own reasons. One of them is hiding a murderous past! What transpires during the lockdown is told from their perspectives counting down from 56 days prior to the present day, AND from the perspective of a detective who is called to the scene of an apartment where a body is found decomposing. Not just an apartment...the one they were sharing. The story is fast-paced with information revealed at each turn. One huge twist caught me by surprise in the end, just when I thought I'd figured things out. :-) Also, having the story occur during the pandemic was very surreal, but also very interesting to see it spelled out in story form...exactly what we all went through at the beginning, and many continue to go through even now. Great book!! 

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