Latest Reads !

I finished reading Good To a Fault by Marina Endicott. It was an okay read, but not one I would readily recommend to others. The descriptions of day-to-day routine got a bit tedious, and I found it difficult to appreciate any of the characters, with the exception of little Dolly. The concepts of goodness, selfishness, guilt, and the power of caring relationships were developed throughout a realistic family crisis.

I am currently 294 pages into They Were Counted by Miklos Banffy; a gift from Jane. It follows the lives of two Transylvanian male cousins during pre-1914 Hungary. The events and characters are almost Jane Austen-like in their manner, and follow the events of upper-class life and political goings-on at that time. The book gives us a little insight into what Darcy might have been thinking! It's the first in a trilogy. Back to my reading.

Kathy

Not sure if this will work but here goes: I just read a novel by Edwidge Danticat, a young Haitian writer, currently living in the U.S. It was called The Farming of Bones. An amazing book set in 1930's Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Definitely worth a read.

Another recent read was the Governor General's award winner The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger. Beautiful story set in 1860's Egypt told in the voice of an English maid to a rich woman and their lives in Egypt. Definitely worth a read. Amazing sense of place and time.