It's heeeeeeerrrrrrrrreeeeeeee!

My copy of The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown, arrived today via the nice Fed Ex truck. I ordered it through my Border's account and had forgotten that it was being delivered to the house. I was thinking I would pick it up tomorrow night. With that being said I am thrilled to have it to read. My summer reading this past year was a bust. I started reading God's Secretaries, The Making of the King James Bible, Adam Nicolson, which contains a lot of Old English dialect that makes it hard to understand at times. My book marker is still in the book so I might go back to it. I put down this book and picked up Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE. I struggled reading this book and thought that maybe I should just put it down and let it go, but I thought maybe it's like some other books and it picks up in the next chapter. You know you can say that only for so long and then you've read the entire book which never got better. It now resides in the sack for the Goodwill pickup.

I fantasize about having a good seasonal read. I want to be sitting on the big porch at the beach house in New England with a book that I just can't put down. Go to the clam bake and discuss it with the book club. I want to curl up with a shawl and a book that makes me forget that it is time to stop and make dinner. I want that special book for the snowed in weekend where the hours seem to go on endlessly, which they never do on any other day. Could this one be the one?

I've read all of Dan Brown's other books and highly recommend them. They are fantasy and I was simply amazed by all the hoopla the public, the churches and the various groups were making about The DaVinci Code. I did look up several references while reading it, but I was mostly thinking - wow - he got to go to France, Italy and England to do research for the book and it was probably all tax deductible. That's a business trip I want to take.

I have been known to judge a book by it's cover. It's been hit and miss on that philosophy. But what I don't understand is why do publishers make different books for the various publications and locations. The cover below is another one done for the book. Between the two posted here I would have picked this book by it's cover.

Tonight I will curl up with this book and its 509 pages, crack it's spine and see where Robert Langdon takes me. This should be verrrrry interesting.

Dinner is cooking and I love this cool, overcast, breezy weather we are having.

CIAO!