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6 Wednesday, April 1, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Favorite books for troubled times By Kema Clark Columnist I like two kinds of books or movies: either the bad guy dies at the end or the couple live happily ever after. All my favorite books and movies are series. By the time I9ve read or watched a couple of them, I feel like the characters are either my best friends or I want to shoot them. Either way, they9re real people. Louis L9Amour9s Sackett series is awesome. Tell Sackett is one of the greatest characters ever in a Western 4 and it has nothing to do with the fact that Sam Elliott plays Tell Sackett in the TV movies. Really. I9ve been reading Louis L9Amour books for a hundred years and The Sackett TV movie didn9t come out until 1979. Of course, after you watch The Sackett movie, you9ll picture Sam as Tell in all the books with that char- acter. And that makes the books even better when you read them again. I have the set of saddle-brown Louis L9Amour books (100-plus) that go with me everywhere. They traveled from Georgia to Oregon and are so happy to be living in the West. If you like a little sci- fi in your soup, try F. Paul Wilson9s Repairman Jack series. Jack <fixes= things. When someone starts try- ing to hurt good people who don9t have the ways or means to stop the bad guy, Jack helps. He reminds me of Travis McGee in the John D. MacDonald series. Although Travis lives in Florida and Jack lives in New York, they both like to make things right. Repairman Jack has some extra supernatural weapons (although sometimes the weapons are used against him), which makes for a great read. Another incredible series is John Sandford9s Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers. The first book I read about Lucas 4 <Rules Hair, Skin & Nails 541-549-6566 484 W. Washington Ave., Ste. B of Prey= 4 irritated me so badly I swore I would never read another. Lucas was the biggest jerk in history and I couldn9t stand him. Years later, I happened to read <Dark of the Moon,= a book about Virgil, who works for Lucas. That one was funny and entertaining (and, of course, had murder involved). I thought <Well, I must have misjudged Sandford, so I9ll try again.= By that time, Sandford already had 16 books in the Lucas series. I started read- ing them backwards in the series and they were great! He now has 30 books in the Prey series, which have Lucas as the main character, plus 12 in the Virgil series. That will get you through a lot of hours at your house waiting until the world is back to normal. Whatever normal is. Another favorite series for me is the Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series by Robert Crais. Elvis started out being the main character, but after a few books, Joe became the main character in some of them 4 Joe is my favor- ite. Either way, they9re best friends, live in Southern California, and there9s always murder and mayhem involved. Robert Parker9s Spenser series is another excellent way to spend your time. And Harlan Coben9s Myron Bolitar series. And Michael Connelly9s Bosch series. And Lee Child9s Jack Reacher series 4 although don9t get me started on Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher in the movies. Tom Cruise is not Jack Reacher. I get overdosed on mur- der and mayhem and have to go to the couple-lives-hap- pily-ever-after books. The Fool9s Gold series by Susan Mallery is great. There are maybe 20 in that series and the location for the books is a small town in the Sierra Nevadas of California. The Virgin River series by Robyn Carr is excellent. I think 18 are in that series 4 it takes place in the moun- tains of Northern California. She also has the Thunder Point, Oregon series, where the characters live along the Oregon coast. A TV series was just started a few months ago on her books, but I haven9t seen it. I9ve read all these series several times. After a few years, I forget how the book ends, or I might remember how it ends, but don9t remember how they got there, so it9s worth reading again. Happy reading to everyone! State orders insurance premium grace periods The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services issued a tempo- rary emergency order today in response to the COVID- 19 outbreak. It requires all insurance companies to extend grace periods for premium payments, postpone policy cancella- tions and nonrenewals, and extend deadlines for report- ing claims. The COVID-19 outbreak has caused widespread busi- ness closures, job losses, and social distancing mea- sures. This severe disrup- tion to business in the state includes some Oregonians9 ability to make insurance premium payments, report claims, and communi- cate with their insurance companies. <During this crisis, we must all do our best to help Oregonians focus on stay- ing healthy, care for their families, and prevent the spread of the coronavirus,= said Andrew Stolfi, insur- ance commissioner. <Many of our insurers have already stepped up and done the right thing. This order will ensure every Oregonian who needs it has relief from these insurance policy terms, giv- ing them a measure of secu- rity and stability.= Insurance companies must take steps immediately to do the following until the order is no longer in effect: " Institute a grace period for premium payments on all insurance policies issued in the state. " Suspend all cancella- tions and nonrenewals for active insurance policies. " Extend all deadlines for consumers to report claims and communicate about claims. " Provide consumers the ability to make pre- mium payments and report claims while maintain- ing safe social distancing standards. The order is effective immediately, and will be in force through at least April 23. If necessary, the department may extend the duration of this temporary order. For insurance and finan- cial services information related to COVID-19, visit the department9s website: h t t p s : / / d f r. o r e g o n . g o v / insure/health/understand/ Pages/coronavirus.aspx. Dr. Thomas R. Rheuben ~ Your Dentist in Sisters Since 1993 ~ TREATING EMERGENCIES DURING THIS TIME PERIOD General, Cosmetic, Implant & Family Dentistry 541-549-0109 • Re-Roof & New Construction • Composite, Metal, Flat & Cedar Shake Products • Free Estimates • Transferable Warranties • 10-Year Workmanship Guarantee Family Owned & Operated for 20 Years 541-526-5143 ccb#203769 | 304 W. 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