Okay I know it's Thursday but I was really busy yesterday. What have I read recently- Ride the River by Louis L'Amour, it was a good short read. Escapism fantasy set in the post revolutionary U.S. about Echo Sackett the youngest descendant of Kin Sackett and her adventure travailing to and from Philadelphia and her home in the Tennessee woods. Then Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel (author of Life of Pi), it was a really good read. There were a twist or two and something near the end quite unexpected. It's a story about the holocaust, about the power of fiction, about taxidermy and a play about a donkey and a howler monkey on a striped shirt. At the end of the book there's a section called Games for Gustav that's pretty heart rending but in being so reflects the horror of the holocaust. This is the third book I've read by Martel and I've thoroughly enjoyed each of them. Also a few weeks back Librarian Who had a blog about her favorite book as a child and that got me to talking about my favorite when I was a kid and that led my lovely wife to find and order it for me online - The Little Mailman of Bayberry Lane by Ian Munn. It's a little book about a mailman that feels sorry for Ms. Pig because she doesn't have any friends and so he invites everyone to a surprise party at her house and then they all become besties.
What am I reading now? Once upon a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie. Sijie wrote Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and Mr. Mau's Travailing Couch both of which were great and so I'm hoping this one will be too.
What's next? To soon to tell really, I just started Once Upon a Moonless Night last night. But more than likely Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
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