This week I read The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits by Elizabeth Peters. I’ve read all of her Amelia Peabody mysteries. I haven’t liked her other books as much as that series but they are entertaining. This book was written in the early 70s about a girl who goes to Mexico to talk to her estranged father. Then there is a mystery about drugs and why her father is in Mexico and people keep trying to kill her. As you can see I’ve already forgotten most of it in the few days since I read it but it was a entertaining read.
My first plane reading book was Contract With An Angel by Andrew Greeley. A nasty businessman is confronted by an angel and forced to sign a contract agreeing to make up with the people that he’s harmed in his life before he dies. I’ve read a lot of this author’s books too. The only complaints about them is that they have way too much sex. The author is a priest and seems to have a celebate’s conviction that married people (and only married people) have sex 2-3 times a day. It is always mindblowing too. He gives the impression in his books that if this isn’t want your life is like that’s because you aren’t in a good relationship. Maybe I’m the unusual one but I have to go to work and do the laundry occasionally.
Household Gods by Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove. I loved this book! A spoiled, man-hating, single lawyer and mother wishes for a life in a simpler time. She wakes up in 2nd century Austria in the body of a widowed tavern owner. She has to learn to survive in her new world. It challenges all her 21st century politically correct values.