Reading and buying

I bought two new books during the Holidays and even received one from Santa. I received S.J. Parris’ “Heresy”. As a huge fan of C.J. Sansom and his Shardlake-series, I’m really curious about this book. Is it as good, or... It will have to wait a little while longer, because currently I’m reading “A discovery of witches” by Deborah Harkness (which I recently bought). At page 31, chapter 3, I like the book so far. The heroine is working in an academic world and it is set in Oxford in the Bodleian Library. She’s doing research into alchemy. The funny thing is, the back cover says the book will be irresistible to Twilight fans. I’ve read only 31 pages, but the book is so much better in these 31 pages then in the whole Twilight book. Diane is a grown up woman. She does have her issues, but she doesn’t moan over a boy/man (so far at least). Twilight sucks, but this book is promising. I’ll review the whole book after I finished it.

At the same time I’m also reading David Henson’s “The cemetery of secrets”. I confess, I already read how it ends (a terrible, but irresistible trait of mine). This is not one out of the Nic Costa-series, but rather a stand-alone. It plays in Venice. At this point, we have a mysterious violin, a thief, an art dealer, an English scholar, and an American do-gooder. Of course they’re all connected. I’m a fan of the Nic Costa-series. I even took quite some trouble last year to catch the latest one in hard back in England. With this “Cemetery”, I don’t know. It took me some time to “get” the book. I even put it down for a while. For now I’m giving it a second chance.

For the future there are several books waiting. There’s Carlos Zafon’s “The midnight palace” (also recently bought); G.R.R. Martin’s “A dance with dragons” (not so recently bought, but also not very high on the list – I do dislike mr. Martin’s attitude towards his fans) and several more. Too much books, too little time.