February reading list

Bumped into one of my kid's picture books, Joan Steiner's Look-Alikes, which is filled with scenes of tiny things that look like big things. So a pistachio is a tulip, a balloon is a dress. Plenty of mousetraps and saltines and fig newtons. Fun to stare at the scene and discover all the things that look like other things.

Finished Ken Follett's Hornet Flight, a suspenseful, WWII thriller story. Good stuff. Two Danes fly across the North Sea to give the Brits a secret that will save London from German airstikes. Harald, Arne Olufsen. Hornet Moth airplane. What's surprising, though, is that Ken Follett also wrote Pillars of the Earth, which captures a 30-year span waaaaay back when people built cathedrals. People are reading it again, too. Not a thriller, either. Something completely different. Also finished The Dearly Departed by Elinor Lipman. A little disappointing. I wanted more of a story - it never really got going for me. The dialog was good, though. A girl comes back home (from out of town) to bury her mother, who died accidentally with her lover. Turns out she has a half-brother, who shows up at the funeral. So the mom had a long-standing affair with the guy. She ends up falling for the cop/old pal from high school.

Next time: Trip to Savannah.