more books to add

Category: 50 Books

66. Pentimento by Lillian Hellman
I forgot to add this one last month. It’s a memoir, I guess. More like it’s written portraits of some of her favorite people. Very well-written. I’m not sure everything in the book is true, she has a way of making herself look good. But still, a very enjoyable read.

67. With Child by Laurie R. King
This is book three in her Kate Martinelli series. I enjoyed this one more than the second one because it was a bit more emotional. Plots with kidnapping tend to be that way. Ms. King was able to write it in such a way that you felt everyone’s grief and dispair. It had a happy-ish ending. Which seemed more real than to have a totally happy ending.

I guess it starts in medias res but not like you think. It’s not in the middle of “action” exactly, so I was confused because I thought maybe I had skipped a book. I went and made sure I was reading book 3 and not book 4. So maybe it could’ve moved along better if it had started at the beginning… instead of in the middle…. and then in the middle of the book? that’s where it goes back to the beginning. So by the middle of the book you can see what has happened and you’re up to date. It was clever, but I was not wearing my Clever Hat so I didn’t pick up on it.

Also in this one Kate and Lee sort of split up for a bit, and that was sad.

While To Play the Fool was straight up mystery solving, this one was more involved with the characters, you see them change a grow. I’m not sure books three would stand alone very well, but since it’s part of a series I guess it doesn’t have to.

Tags: , , , , ,

No Comments