What I’m read­ing: Break­ing Point, by C.J. Box

Have you bid on some­thing at Brenda Novak’s auc­tion for dia­betes research. I’ve donated 4 out of print books and I’d really like to see some action—it’s for a good cause, after all. Link in the side­bar (click the image). And, there’s still time to enter to win one of F.M. Meredith’s books from Tuesday’s post. Scroll down.

The other night, Hub­ster and I were watch­ing a recent episode of CSI (no, I don’t use it for police/forensics research! Hub­ster enjoys the spe­cial effects pho­tog­ra­phy, and maybe some of the cleav­age. I like fol­low­ing the characters.)

At any rate, the story included dis­cov­er­ing a woman/suspect who suf­fered from a rare disease—one that the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies don’t put much effort into, because there aren’t “enough” peo­ple who have the con­di­tion. They’re com­monly referred to as “orphan” dis­eases. This one hap­pened to be a rare clot­ting dis­or­der. Hub­ster and I looked at each other and laughed. Why? Because one of the themes in Rooted in Dan­ger revolves around research into orphan dis­eases. And, to raise the coin­ci­dence level, my cur­rent WIP has a char­ac­ter suf­fer­ing from a clot­ting disorder—not the one in the CSI episode, but the same effects. My reac­tion? “Hey. I wrote those books!”

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