Fiction

Great book! So much detail about the inner workings of the State Department makes this book feel hyper-realistic. And I love that the village of Three Pines (from Penny's Inspector Gamache series) makes an appearance as well.

I'm alternating series this week, as they become available from the library. I'm trying to read The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. An old friend recommended the series after seeing that it was made into a television series. He emphatically does not recommend the television show - it doesn't follow the books at all. The first book is The Eye of the World.

And when The Wheel of Time books are on hold, I'm reading a nice cozy series, the Scottish Bookshop Mysteries, by Paige Shelton. The main character, Delaney Nichols (from "Kansas in America" ), has come to Edinburgh to work at the Cracked Spine, a rather mysterious used book store in Edinburgh. The body count isn't as high as Cabot Cove, Maine, but everyone who works there finds a dead body from time to time. The first book is The Cracked Spine.