Friday just got away from me. Walking the dogs, dinner and DVD with Steve and no time to blog. My apologies.
Finally, it is the weekend. Steve is off again to coach another gun class. I'll be working like mad on my newsletter and doing laundry and other weekend chores.
We watched Battle: Los Angeles last night. Very well done action flick if you like military action ones a la Black Hawk Down.
I finished the Joseph Finder book last night, BURIED SECRETS. This author just has magic in his storytelling. I don't usually like this kind of jeopardy tale -- a teen girl is buried alive while the bad guy is asking for a huge ransom. This is part of his series featuring an almost Energizer Bunny-type guy but it works for me. I first found Finder reading his stand alone PARANOIA which was fantastic.
I'll be starting THE BORGIA BETRAYAL by Sara Poole. This is 2nd of 2 in series featuring Francesca Giordano, poisoner for Pope Alexander, aka Rodrigo Borgia, in 15th century Rome. Here is a summary:
In the summer of 1493, Rodrigo Borgia, Alexander VI, has been pope for almost a year. Having played a crucial role in helping him ascend the chair of Saint Peter, Francesca, haunted by the shadows of her own past, is now charged with keeping him there. As court poisoner to the most notorious and dangerous family in Italy, this mistress of death faces a web of peril, intrigue, and deceit that threatens to extinguish the light of the Renaissance. As dangers close in from every direction, Francesca conceives a desperate plan that puts her own life at risk and hurls her into a nightmare confrontation with a madman intent on destroying all she is pledged to protect. From the hidden crypts of fifteenth-century Rome to its teeming streets alive with sensuality, obsession, and treachery, Francesca must battle the demons of her own dark nature to unravel a plot to destroy the Borgias, seize control of Christendom, and plunge the world into eternal darkness.
It was published this month and has 416 pages.
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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