Oy, it’s a tough week at work. I’m making it through it though.
I’ve decided ~not~ to go the Friends of the library sale when it opens on Friday. I may go on Sunday for the buck a bag deal but right now I don’t need any books.
I finished my re-reading of last two books of THE HUNGER GAMES trilogy after seeing the movie on Sunday. The story just gets into my brain and won’t let go … in a good way. It is just amazingly done. I may have to revise my answer to the meme question: what book would you memorize (a la Fahrenheit 451) in order to save it? In the past I have answered either PRIDE AND PREJUDICE or PERSUASION by Jane Austen. I will probably now answer with this trilogy. There are such important issues in it besides being a terrific story, characters, and world building.
I’m now starting SACRILEGE by SJ Parris. This is 3rd of 3 in series featuring Giordano Bruno, a monk, philosopher, and astronomer on the run from the Roman Inquisition, serving as an agent for Queen Elizabeth I, in late 16th century England
London, summer of 1584: Radical philosopher, ex-monk, and spy Giordano Bruno suspects he is being followed by an old enemy. He is shocked to discover that his pursuer is in fact Sophia Underhill, a young woman with whom he was once in love. When Bruno learns that Sophia has been accused of murdering her husband, a prominent magistrate in Canterbury, he agrees to do anything he can to help clear her name. In the city that was once England's greatest center of pilgrimage, Bruno begins to uncover unsuspected secrets that point to the dead man being part of a larger and more dangerous plot in the making. He must turn his detective's eye on history—on Saint Thomas Becket, the twelfth-century archbishop murdered in Canterbury Cathedral, and on the legend surrounding the disappearance of his body—in order to solve the crime. As Bruno's feelings for Sophia grow more intense, so does his fear that another murder is about to take place—perhaps his own. But more than Bruno's life is at stake in this vividly rendered, impeccably researched, and addictively page-turning whodunit—the stability of the kingdom hangs in the balance as Bruno hunts down a brutal murderer in the shadows of England's most ancient cathedral.
It was released April 10th (yesterday) and has 432 pages. Love this author. I’ve been waiting for this for, like, eleven months and three weeks.
There is nothing on TV for me tonight. Steve has shooting. It’s supposed to start raining/storming tonight-ish and for the next few days (woot!). I was kind of hoping for a long walk with the boys if it stays nice. Otherwise, I suppose I’ll read. And then dream.
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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