My word! It has been a long time since I have posted last. We have been on break the last three weeks so I haven't had much to write about. Hopefully that will change this week.
I have been a bit slow in posting the books that I have been reading. I am going to do one post for the last three books that I have read and just give a brief snippet about each, as per usual, I am short on time.
Book #21-- Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I have always been intimidated to read this book. I always thought it would be a difficult read, like the Father Brown Mysteries, so I have put this book farther and farther down on my 'to be read' pile. I finally plucked enough courage to open up the cover. I say! this book is such an easy read and to top it off, it is an enjoyable read. I love Sherlock Holmes. You read about the good and the bad in his character, which is refreshing these days.
Book #22-- Amazing Grace, the Life of William Wilberforce by John Piper. This starts out as any other biography; full of anecdotes of his childhood and his adult years. Then in the last three chapters, it delves into his spiritual life and that is where this book takes a turn from other biographies. These chapters study as to why Wilberforce had so much joy in his life. The author examines where it comes from and how Wilberforce nurtured it. Those last three chapters were an interesting read.
Book #23-- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I have read The Kite Runner by Hosseini and I enjoyed that book very much. It surprises me, then, that A Thousand Splendid Suns could be so much better than the first book. I was hooked from the very first page. The book is set in Afghan in the 1960's and follows its political unrest up to present times. The story is told through two women who are unrelated but are attached through events of their lives. This is a spellbinding story.