I've been reading in fits and starts with little keeping my attention.
I did recently complete
Casino Royale, which I enjoyed. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of them. We own all of the novels & movies (except for Skyfall), so I'm trying to decide if I want to watch the movies after reading the books.
Yes, I know they will be completely different, especially where nothing was borrowed from the book except the title, but it still might be a fun experience.
I've just started a purely impulse read:
The Sisterhood by Helen Bryan, which came up as a Lending Library selection on Amazon.
Quote:
Menina Walker was a child of fortune. Rescued after a hurricane in South America, doomed to a life of poverty with a swallow medal as her only legacy, the orphaned toddler was adopted by an American family and taken to a new life.
As a beautiful, intelligent woman of nineteen, she is in love, engaged, and excited about the future—until another traumatic event shatters her dreams. Menina flees to Spain to bury her misery in research for her college thesis about a sixteenth-century artist who signed his works with the image of a swallow—the same image as the one on Menina’s medal.
But a mugging strands Menina in a musty, isolated Spanish convent. Exploring her surroundings, she discovers the epic sagas of five orphan girls who were hidden from the Spanish Inquisition and received help escaping to the New World. Is Menina’s medal a link to them, or to her own past? Did coincidence lead her to the convent, or fate?
Both love story and historical thriller, The Sisterhood is an emotionally charged ride across continents and centuries.
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