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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
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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.
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