Opinion

Crankiness soars to new heights

Absentee Ballot Voting Tip #1

You know your vote matters. Your right to vote is precious to you. But a simple error in the way you fill out your absentee ballot CAN lead to your vote not being counted.

Today, I read an anthology of anger in the form of Yelp reviews. A single person had rated a dozen businesses, and she had never given out anything higher than a single star, which is the lowest possible score. In addition to her ratings, she offered delightful accounts of her various experiences.

Options for Mystery and Suspense Fans

If you’re interested in starting a new series, here are two offerings.  One is a cozy mystery from a new Wisconsin writer and the other is a paranormal thriller from an author who’s written dozens of books.

To the editor,

When I was six years old, I fell and hit my chin on the edge of a wooden toy chest. It took 19 stitches to put me back together. Last week, my daughter, who is six, fell out of a tree and smacked her chin on a wooden platform on the way down.

Sauk Prairie Healthcare thanks community for its work to fight COVID-19

Dear Editor,

Secrets and Lies

Those seeking intelligent spy novels infused with both drama and humor should give one of Kate Atkinson’s recent novels a try.  “Transcription” was published in 2018 and is set in London in the mid-1900s.  Like many of the author’s other works, it combines history with intrigue and drama.

Dear editor:  

Bending reality

“Recursion” is a novel by Blake Crouch that kept popping up on my radar since its publication last year.  I joined the many readers who enjoyed his thrilling bestseller “Dark Matter” in 2016 and looked forward to reading more of his work.