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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.

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I’ve been slacking in the reading department lately. All I have to report is two books on tape and a book for the library book club tonight.

Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse by Michael Korda. I liked this book a lot but the main thing that kept going through my mind while listening was, “They must have sooooo much money!” As the owner of a house in the country who is trying to get it up to what it could be I can sympathize and only wish I had the ability to write a check every time he complained about paying to have something done. He also won my everlasting sympathy because he had deadbeat contractors too.

His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time by Carl Berstein and Marco Politi. This book covered the reign of John Paul II up to 1996. It focused mostly on the role of the Pope in the Solidarity movement in Poland. The last part of book discusses his views on issues such as women and abortion. I’d recommend reading this one and not listening to it because it is pretty demanding at times. I’d have a moment of lapsed attention (like to avoid hitting someone) and then be lost.

A Single Pebble by John Hersey of HIROSHIMA fame. This the book for the book discussion tonight. It is the story of his trip up the Yangtze in China in the early 20th century. He was going to propose building a dam. He rode on a ship that needed to be towed up the river by the crew. The story is of his relationship with the towers. He saw that he could simplify their lives but they distrusted him for wanting to change the river.

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