The Broker

Author: John Grisham
Date Finished: 6/27/06

I like me some Grisham, even though he can be a bit uneven as a story teller. This was a pretty good one, fast read and sufficiently interesting characters and plot. Although for a person working on an alarming caffiene habit, having the main character spend most of his days looking around Italy for an espresso may be a bit dangerous. I won't say that I brewed a pot of coffee at 8:45 p.m. last night, but I won't say that I didn't.

I took back a huge haul of books to the library this evening after I realized that I have a couple on my in progress stack that are going to require serious concentration if I'm going to finish them. A biography of Leonardo da Vinci, Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris (which I've started numerous times but never gotten out of the season of Advent) and Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner. What? Oh, the Weiner? Well, concentration is well and good, buta spoonful of sugar (or chick lit) makes the medicine go down.