Catching Up On Some Books
It's been awhile since I have talked about what I've been reading. As usual I have several books going at once and have just finished a couple. So here goes:

• Bleachers-John Grisham. A good, classy storyteller who often, to my thinking throws away his endings. They are either so far out to be believable or just so cheesy that you go, Oh No! This is in the latter. He had me all through the story. Fears, losses, angers, missed dreams, lost loves. But at the end it just... ends. And they live sort of happily ever after with much too much ease. It may be that life is just like that, but it appears to me that he runs out of tension and gives up. Overall, a good read, however.
• Eye of the World- Robert Jordan. Fantasy at it's Tolkein-Lewis best. This is the first book in the Wheel of Time series that is now up to Book 11 to be released in October. Fantasy stories are always about good and evil. But the journey is always arduous and powerful. Jordan does a great job. This book was recommended by a friend's husband. Well, I'm hooked! (Just added Book Two- The Great Hunt to the booklist on the sidebar there.)
• Rule of Four- Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason. Like the more controversial DaVinci Code this one deals with ancient literature and people long gone. A thriller that takes place over one long Easter weekend at Princeton concerning a deep, profound riddle hidden in a 15th Century text. What a ride!
• Death and the Sun:A Matador's Season in the Heart of Spain- Edward Lewine. This is a story of a season of bullfighting in Spain with Torero Francisco Rivera Ordóñez, a fourth-generation bullfighter. When I was in Spain a few years ago I attended a corrida and found it fascinating. Issues of the morality of the event are set aside in this entralling visit to a timeless craft and entertainment.

So many books, so little time!