Read this excerpt from a blog critic, then link there and see the whole story!:
Perhaps on a handful of occasions, you come across a story that can paradoxically alter and reinforce your understanding of the human condition. A story so rich in complex and interesting characters, their lives narrated with such vivid detail and telling dialogue, they have to be real people and not the imagined composites of a novelist. A story set so perfectly in a place and time in history that you come away believing for a while that you lived there, traveled the streets, overheard conversations or had supper with the denizens.
Of the hundreds of books I have enjoyed reading, like an endless buffet of delicious meals, there are few and far between the luscious delicacies found in Thomas Thompson’s book, Blood and Money. This sumptuous feast requires slow, deliberate relish in order to luxuriate in every chapter like exquisitely prepared courses served in the finest restaurant. Before I had finished the first chapter of the book, I began to pace myself to allow the rare beauty and satisfying depth of this engrossing experience to linger like the afterglow of fulfilling lovemaking.
Now I am waiting to see the movie, and if I'll find the book the movie "Murder in Texas" is based on I guess I'll have to read that too :-) ("Prescription Murder" by Ann Kurth).
The next book I read was another one from the school library..."Don't judge a girl by her cover" by Ally Carter. It is the third in the "Gallagher Girls" series. Hey, I did read the other two and it is a good and quick read. I need to be ahead of the kids in school! :-)
I did read all 20 of the Texas Lone Star books and don't know if I wrote them all down. But hey, there are list around, you can find them all...
Now I am reading another 'grown-up' book my friend lend me. When I am finished I'll share it with you also!
