Finished MAGICAL JUSTICE

From the god's capricious sense of justice to the magic of everyday people, places and things enchanted which is often not that capricious and closer to what we humans consider justice, but not always. This series is beautifully illustrated and very readable.  The stories are presented like they actually happened, therefore not compromising anyone's belief system.

I am now about to start the next book in the series, The Lore of Love.

Finished A COLUMN OF FIRE

Set in the 16th century ranging from just before the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and just after, the action switches between France and England and introduces motivated and strong characters, heros, sheros, and villains, but almost all of them at least partially sympathetic.  We are still in Kingsbridge (but also in London and Paris) where the great cathedral--built in Pillars of the Earth--and the bridge (built in World Without End) are located, but now Europe is embroiled in screaming controversy--and sometimes outright war) between Catholics and Protestants.  Much action and romance.

I have now started Of Love and Evil by Anne Rice.  I always relax into Rice's lush prose and lovingly described world.  Now having just left Ken Follett's 16th century, I jump back a century to the time of Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Pope Leo X and we are in Rome.  Toby, the hit man turned angel's assistant, must now help a deserving young man deal with a ghost or evil spirit which is haunting his home and poisoning his friends and neighbors to believing he is a witch.

Finished PANDEMIC and one other

A couple little things at the end didn't exactly add up, or at least they were a stretch.  But, I'm not that critical.  The book kept my attention and was very readable.  I enjoyed it.

Then I read Poems by Trump:  Whose Boat is the Boat & Other Poems.  I admit I got conned on this.  I went to Amazon looking for Whose Boat is this Boat, and thought this was it plus more.  It is not.  Perhaps I am giving Trump too much credit, but I can't believe he actually said the things in here and even if he did they are too disgusting to print.  Not even worth one star.



I have now started Ken Follett's A Column of Fire, the third in his Kingsbridge saga which started with Pillars of the Earth.  It is now the 16th century and Elizabeth 1 will eventually be queen, sending the countryside into spasms of worry about what will happen to Catholics.  Of course, now Protestants are being persecuted.  Ned, a merchant's son is in love with Marjorie, another merchant's daughter, but her family wants her to marry the Earl of the area, a brute. 

Finished another 100 pages of ALEXANDER HAMILTON

This section covered the years that John Adams was president.  He was only a one term president--he was bad tempered, opinionated and managed to alienate the Republicans and many Federalists (his own party.)  He did things that seemed badly advised both to Washington and Hamilton as well as their faction of the party.  Interesting section.

I have now started Pandemic by Robin Cook.  A young woman (30) has died suddenly on the subway.  Jack Stapleton suspects a flu-like virus but when he opens her up he discovers she had a recent heart transplant, but her lungs are eaten up with infection.  The heart was in good shape....

Finished THE WOMEN IN THE CASTLE

In the end, it is a lesson about the value of humanity and friendship through differences of opinions and life choices.  Because of the power of the setting the theme is also strong.

I have now returned to Alexander Hamilton for another 100 pages.  This section has started out with Washington choosing not to run for a third term and the divisiveness of the following election which resulted in Adams president (a Federalist) and Jefferson (a Republican), political rivals.

Finished IN THE TIME OF GREEN BLIMPS

Another wonderfully inventive novel in the Star Saga by Henry Melton.  100 years after all technology on Earth was destroyed, new technologies are are being developed.  Some are new life forms bred specifically to serve humans--the blimps don't travel fast, but they are one of very few delivery services available and these do fly.  Are they dangerous?  The jury is out.
I love all the books I have read by Henry Melton and they just keep getting better.

I am now nearly finished with The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck.  Set just after WWII in West Germany, three women manage to come together to survive and rebuild what they can.  We learn about the war experiences of each  in retrospect and see the direct influence those experiences had on them and their children.

No, I don't seem to have had my fill of hollocaust stories, though I could never read them in succession.

The delay and reporting has been caused by our returning to Florida and have only just gotten the computer set up.

Finished THUNDER KEEPER

Again we deal with the violation of Indian lands by corporate America.  The weather is an important character in this novel which puts our nosy hero and shero in hot water.

I am now about to start another in Henry Melton's Project Saga (starting with Star Time).  We are now back on Earth one hundred years after the supernova that destroyed all of the Earth's technology.  There are two directions that recovery has taken and they are not compatible...