Friday, May 30, 2008

Phillipa and Dean

I just finished reading "The Constant Princess" by Phillipa Gregory. She wrote "The Other Boleyn girl" and then "The Boleyn Inheritance". All about the wives of Henry the 8th. The "Bolyen" books she wrote first and then went back and wrote the Constant Princess after his first wife, Katherine of Aragon. She wrote in her research of the Boleyn girls she became very interested in Katherine. Cari suggested reading that one first and going in order of his wives. It starts out a little slow with her early life as youngest daughter, Catalina, to Ferdinand and Isabella, King and Queen of Spain. It was totally a good read. I couldn't wait to start the next one, "The Other Boleyn girl." This one is really good too. BUT..then Dean Koontz came out with his book, "Odd Hours." So....Boleyn got put aside for a little bit. (Actually we are leaving for vacation in a couple of weeks so I thought the Boleyn books would be better to take as they are paperback.) I am totally a Dean Koontz fan. I read all of his books. If any of you follow him, this is his 4h Odd adventure. It starts out with Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, and now Odd Hours. Odd Thomas is a great guy, very average looking but can see dead people. So he helps the local police in finding killers. He can also see the future at times so goes around trying to keep people from dying. Odd Hours has started off very fast paced and good. I would recommend reading the first book, Odd Thomas, first to get a sense of the character.

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