Spring Here Last Few Days

I have been so busy with work for CCS, having Cherie to stay, gardening and the like that writing this blog has constantly been put off. Two fine warm days have helped, hopefully we will continue to get more and more of them.

At lunchtime today I finished my latest kindle book:

A blackly comic murder mystery involving very expensive wine and an overdose of chilli chocolate.

Two little boys start out as friends but their lives take two different paths. One becomes all he wants to be and is 'saved' by marrying a woman with the strength to keep him on the right side of the law and he has something to live for. The other is a boy who is given no choice about his life and the person he will become and the things he will do. When they meet again the contrast is stark. Like the 'Cain and Abel' story, but more violent.

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It is a book which is very slow to get into and I almost gave up. The second half is page turning and I put other things aside to 'find out what happens'. If readers can get past this, and the lack of real character development in the first half, I am sure it is a book they will enjoy. The plot has interesting twists and turns and the New Zealand setting helps to keep one's attention span.

I am also reading:
 

A fictionalized account of the life of the real, historical figure, Sally Lunn - famous for her tea-shop in early 18th century Bath. She was a young French Huguenot who escaped from France to Bath.

This book holds a special place for me as I had dinner at the Sally Lunn House in Bath in 2007. Although fictionalised, this book is interesting and easy to follow as a talking book. Sally Lunn seems to court problems and yet has a spirit and way about her that makes the story so easy to read. I am just up to the place where she gains work in a bakery in Bath, the story has many twists and turns.




The bread is a normal loaf, not the Sally Lunn we know here in New Zealand which is a sweet loaf with icing on top.