I finished reading Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade yesterday. Eh. Eh, is really all I have to say. It was, well I was going to say okay, but I don’t even know if I can do that. It wasn’t bad, but it never really captured me and really had hold of my attention. I was often doing multiple things while I was reading it. Normally, I am so engrossed you can’t even get my attention! I have the next in the series and I am sure I will read it shortly!
I will be finishing The Well of Lost Plots now. I started it when Dad was in the hospital and then returned to the Lord John book to finish it.
Tonight, I bought a new book by an author unknown to me. The book is called The Pig Did It by Joseph Caldwell. Here’s what the inside flap says, “What the pid did–in Joseph Caldwell’s charming romantic tale of an American in comtemporary Ireland–is create a ruckus, a rumpus, a disturbance . . . utter pandemonium. Possibly the most obstreperous character in literarture since Buck Mulligan in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Mr. Caldwell’s pig distracts everyone from his or her chosen mission. Aaron McCloud has come to Ireland from New York City to walk the beach and pity himself for the cold indifference of the young lady in his writing class he had chosen to be his love. The pig will have none of that. Aaron’s aunt Kitty McCloud, a novelist, wants to get on with her bestselling business of correcting the classics, at the moment Jane Eyre, which in Kitty’s version will end with Rochester’s throwing himself from the tower, not the madwoman’s. The pig will have not a bit of that. What the pig eventually does is root up in Aunt Kitty’s vegetable garden evidence of a possible transgression that each of the novel’s three Irish characters is convinced the other probably benefited from. How this hilarious mystery is resoved in The Pig Did It–the first entry in Mr. Caldwell’s forthcoming Pig Trilogy–inspires both bitingly comic eloquence and a theatrically colorful canvas depicting the brooding Irish land and seascape.”
