Recent Reads

“Pigs in Heaven”, Barbara Kingsolver. I’ll go back to it now that i have read the “bean trees” - This is an absolutely wonderful book, but it will play with your feelings.

“the Constant Gardener”, the new LeCarre - in Africa this time.

“Heroes Die” - a very clever story. Entertaining and morally ambiguous.

Caught in a Still Place Jonathan Lerner “After the plague, there remain 4 survivors… In a landscape littered with the debris of physical and psychological devastation, they evolve new ways of relating to one another. Part prediction, part parable, Caught in a Still Place is a novel of sparse intensity which affirms the possibility of human survival in the aftermath of disaster.“ - a very quiet and well written book, a small slice of time in a bleak future, concentrating on a few people over a few months. Unspectacular on purpose, and quite sweet.

the last Cherryh “Fortress” book, “A Fortress of Dragons” the first three were good to excellent and I can’t wait to see the conclusion (well, I will wait till the paperback, honestly)