Finished THE HUNT (The Secret Circle) by L. J. Smith

Again, L. J. Smith finishes a resolves the problem introduced by the last book and, by the end of this book, introduces a worse problem.  Sort of like a tv series season finale....  I give up.  I am hooked.

I have now started Ross Poldark, the first book of the Poldark series by Winston Graham.  We saw this on PBS and TR bought the first three books in the series.  He read and enjoyed the first two, but said the third was boring.  I've only just started, but the book is certainly in the same mood and atmosphere as the TV drama.  Ross has returned home to find his father dead and his estate in disrepair.  He is about to learn that his fiancé is now to marry someone else.

Finished THIS TIME TOGETHER by Carol Burnett

Greatly enjoyed this fast reading book.  Nearly each short chapter ended with a very funny punchline.  So there I am laughing hysterically, but I need to read the whole chapter aloud to share what I am laughing at.  I try.  I suspect that being near me while I was reading this was probably annoying. About as bad as me reading Roughing It by Mark Twain...it just takes so long to retell the joke.  Very very funny!  Love this woman!

I have started the next book in The Secret Circle series by L. J. Smith, The Hunt.  This starts with two of the circle having been marked by witch hunters who are actively pursuing the rest of the circle.  They have identified two of the hunters...the students' school principal and his son....

Finished INTERVENTION

Wow...Robin Cook greatly influenced by Dan Brown.  Jack Stapleton tries to get wrapped up in a vendetta against alternative medicine, but gets sidetracked by scientific study of two thousand year old artifacts.  Fascinating and becoming scary toward the end.  I enjoyed it very much.



I have just started This Time Together by Carol Burnett.  I looked up an was already on p 66, having laughed out loud in the Y several times and having shared several vignettes with TR.  What fun I am having!

Finished THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

For everyone who thought I'd never finish this book--Nyah, nyah, n-nyah hyah!  The story ends nobly and wise with great insights.  It is the best telling of what happened at the end and how Camelot disintegrated that I have read.  It made sense.  This book does a great job of bringing the various tellings of the Arthurian legend together into a sensible, noble and sensitive tale.

I am now about to start Intervention by Robin Cook.  Jack Stapleton begins the book with a nightmare--a nightmare he used to have shortly after his family was killed, but hasn't had in a very long time...

Finished KITE RUNNER

After having read True American about a Pakistani man translated to Texas, I wanted to read a novel that would give me more insight into Muslim culture.  This certainly is a beginning of that.  The clash between Sunni and Shea is discussed as it effected (effects) culture in Afghanistan and I rapidly found I had no trouble equating the Taliban with Nazis (Hosseini strongly implies it).  It is not an easy book to read, since so much of the inhumanity described cannot be shrugged off as fiction--it had happened and is probably still happening.  It probably also describes life under ISIS and the Boco Harram.  But, I believe, it is a hopeful book written by a hopeful and involved man.  I will read more books by him.



With only a few more an 100 pages left, I am returning to The Once and Future King.  I will now read the fourth and last book about the overthrow of Arthur.