Sreenihal Pouka Pouka itibaren La Bastide-Puylaurent, Fransa
I must say this is an excellent book and it really kept my attention from start to finish. Very nice blend of sci-fi and romance. I definitely could see this book becoming a movie one day, its that good. I highly recommend it.
A translated tome of religious intrigue in 14th Century Europe, written by a semantics expert, threatens the psyche. Then we are in the middle of a thumping good murder mystery, with full monastic violence. A remarkably humane and satisfying book.
Earthy, quirky, a little sad, and very funny--this is a new kind of country story. It's not James Herriot at all, but it is about a vet and his family. I didn't think that I would like the structure of the story at first, which is written like a log of a vet's calls, but it ended up to work very well. Unusual and worth reading.
The Attenbury Emeralds – Jill Patton Walsh 4 stars It’s 1951. Lord Peter Whimsy and his lady wife are at leisure in the library of their London home. The recent death of an old acquaintance induces Lord Peter to relate the tale of his very first case in 1921. This is like a visit with old friends. Both Bunter and the Dowager Duchesse become involved in Peter’s recollections. Harriet realizes that in asking for the story, she has asked Peter to recall a particularly difficult time from his past, the immediate aftermath of the Great War. The book could have ended here. It would have been a great Peter Whimsy mystery to add to the earlier stories. However, the Attenbury Emeralds are heirlooms and their history continues through the decades. The story continues with the kind of jigsaw puzzle complexity that made Sayers’ mysteries so compelling. Along the way Walsh brings the Peter and Harriet into post war Britain with all its massive political and social changes. Jill Patton Walsh is definitely channeling Dorothy Sayers. This is, to my knowledge, the first Peter Whimsy mystery that she has written independently of any work left by the characters’ creator. I’m a great fan of Dorothy Sayers and I never felt this story was anything but true to her previous work.