The druid's latest

"When it rains, it pours" is surely a time-tested idiom.

There was a time when I had nothing to read. Well, let me rephrase, nothing interested me enough to warrant an investment of reading time. And then May seemed to come around with a flurry of new book releases, perhaps in time for Mother's day gifts.

So just got done with PC's Witch of Portobello. The story telling technique was different- the character of Athena was presented as seen by multiple first person accounts of people who interact with her and define how they perceive her. For most part, these accounts were too detailed and sometimes disparate/disconnected that it would be easy to lose focus on the central character, Athena. Secondly the ending fell apart and couldnt hold the story together. Of course, there were too many religious references but that appears to have become PC's trademark these days. I'd give it a 3.5 star rating, but thats just my take.

Currently in the reading cart is James Patterson's 6th Target.

Following that is either City of Djinns(per NN's suggestion) or Khalid Hosseini's A thousand spendid suns.

Woot! Memorial Day weekend charts seem to foresee a lot of couch time with books. Maybe I should be stocking up on them munchies.