Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Am I confusing you? I was completely absorbed in the Karen Marie Moning books and then a week later, I'm commenting on a 2000 thriller!? Yes, my reading is a little disjointed these days. What is one to do -- I'm waiting for the 3rd installment, Faefever, and when Angels & Demons passed into my hands I thought it would be fun to read. After all, the movie version is coming out and I need to be in touch with the masses.

So what did I think of A&D? It was a fun and entertaining read, just like the Da Vinci Code. I was impressed with the effort the author took to create the graphic images and it also acted acted as a refresher of my art history background.

Now, what to read next? City at the end of time? or prehaps Through Black Spruce... Decisions, decisions...

Here is a fun test you may want to try... Here is Jolie Laide classified by Dewey Decimal:

788 Wind instruments

Class:
700 Arts & Recreation

Contains:
Architecture, drawing, painting, music, sports.

What it says about you:
You're creative and fun, and you're good at motivating the people around you. You're attracted to things that are visually interesting. Other people might not always understand your taste or style, but it's yours.

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Darkfever, by Karen Marie Moning

I wanted fun and fantasy and this work is certainly living up to it! It is definitely taking my mind off "issues" and creating a fun filled adventure. Just what I need right now -- a macabre mad cap race through Ireland.

I also have City at the End of Time in my book bag, so I think I'm going to have a good reading week, indeed!

Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin

I need a good science fiction fix but I didn't find it with Lavinia by Ursela Le Guin. It sounded intriguing, but I couldn't get into it.

I'm going to look up City at the End of Time, by Greg Bear -- a friend is reading it right now. I'm also going to explore this blog and see if I can find some other titles... http://futuretrilogy.wordpress.com/
I need a good Sci-Fi or fantasy fix...

This is the publisher's blurb for Lavinia...
In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice.

In "The Aeneid, "Vergil''s hero fights to claim the king''s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.

Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus. But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs say she must marry a foreigner--that she will be the cause of a bitter war--and that her husband will not live long. When a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the Tiber, Lavinia decides to take her destiny into her own hands. And so she tells us what Vergil did not: the story of her life, and of the love of her life.

"Lavinia "is a book of passion and war, generous and austerely beautiful, from a writer working at the height of her powers.