Way back in November I asked Jill if she'd be willing to choose our book for December.  She promptly sent me two titles from which to choose.  Then, things got a bit chaotic around here, and before I knew it, it's practically mid-January.  So, here we are - many weeks late, and with a book to take us through February.  Please join Jill and me in reading Echo Maker by Richard Powers.


The book is described in this way:
"On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when Mark emerges from a coma, he believes that this woman--who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister--is really an imposter. When Karin contacts the famous cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber for help, he diagnoses Mark as having Capgras syndrome. The mysterious nature of the disease, combined with the strange circumstances surrounding Mark's accident, threatens to change all of their lives beyond recognition."

Jill tells me that it's a good book, and I can't wait to get started.  I actually had the book in hand and intended to start reading it during those long hours when Marty was recuperating after his last surgery.  But, then when he was kind of mixed up after his surgery and asking me to get ice for the shrimp and wondering when the piroshkis were going to arrive, I decided that starting this particular book should wait.  Now that things are back to normal(ish), I'm ready to go.

For this month's pairing, I'd recommend anything from Fetzer's Echo Ridge label.  I haven't tried any of them, but the titles create a very nice match.  Let me know if you agree (or disagree, in this case, that might be even more important).