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| The Skull Mantra
by Eliot Pattison |
This is the most enthralling book I've read about Tibet. It is fiction and a thriller/murder mystery. Paints a very gloomy and ugly picture of China's oppression of Tibet, though the main character is Chinese and one of the good guys. The picture it paints of the Tibetan resistance movement and the efforts to keep culture and religion alive stick in my head. I wish I knew how much of that was real and how much was fiction! |
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| Deep South
by Nevada Barr |
This is the latest in the series about Anna Pigeon. I'd sort of lost interest in the series after the Statue of Liberty book, which I didn't think was as good as earlier ones. But Deep South finds the focus of the earlier books. Great characters and a plot that only makes sense if it takes place in the deep south. I'm curious to see what happens next, since Anna starts to develop some ties to this area - but there are lots of national parks in the south, right?, so maybe she won't move very far in the next book! |
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| Prospero's Children
By Jan Siegel |
I've just started this one. So far it has a kind of Tamlin flavor and is very nice. More to come later! |  |
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