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Monday December 31, 2007
Books in December
- At Risk Patricia Cornwell
Her 2006 novel, but without Dr Kay Scarpetta, although it had a detached professional heroine Scarpetta look-alike. I thought the book read slightly oddly, and I now see that - like the last Michael Connelly I read - it was originally serialised for the New York Times. I have a love-hate relationship with her books - they are exciting and absorbing, but these ice-queen heroines do not evoke any empathy - even with detached professionals.... - Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham M C Beaton
Finally back in sequence, finding out what led up to the last two Agatha books I read.
In this book, the author digresses a bit more than usual in talking about Evesham and its history; I feel she must like it very much, and it has certainly caught my interest, as it's an area with which I am not familiar.
As I have mentioned previously, these books are, at face value, very light weight reading, and don't need to be pondered over to find some inner enlightenment. But really they do describe some very telling experiences which I find all too familiar, and make me laugh twice over; are all professional women in their 50s like this... or is it just me?! Here are a couple of quotes from this book:
On grey hair: "She had bought one of those colour rinses but it had turned the grey to purple."
On visiting the museum at the Almonry: "Agatha became uneasy as she saw household items she remembered from her youth."
Posted by Christina at 8:34 AM. Category: Books of the Month
