Weekly Check in...

No completed reading to report; sorry about that!  I am halfway through Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea.  I love the premise: a young Mexican girl lives in a town that all the men have left.  After viewing The Magnificent Seven, she decides to go to the United States and bring back seven Mexican men to defend her town from the banditos and drug pushers.  Humor and reality are are both ingredients for a good novel.  Enjoying but not loving this one.