Heavens! zut alors!

I've had a cold the last few days, and yesterday I was reduced to reading a Betty Neels book called Heaven Around the Corner. I'd bought it on vacation a couple of weeks ago, because I thought it was a Betts that I didn't have. After a chapter, I realized I was wrong. I own a copy (now I own two. Drat!) and I'd read it before. The heroine is incredibly naive - a nurse who takes weeks to realize that her patient is an alcoholic. And then, the patient falls in love, and everyone says, "oh, now she has something to interest her, so she won't be an alcoholic anymore." The book was written in the early 1980s, when Betts was at least 60, but still - as I finished this Betts, I had the rare feeling that I was wasting my time. I should stress (confess?) here that I own nearly every Betty Neels book, and I have a bookshelf filled with them. A nearly complete Betts collection adds up to about 100 of her very similar books.
A copy of Carolyn 101 by Carolyn Kepcher landed on my desk today. Yippee!