Books and Words

I was lucky enough to get a Net Galley ARC of John Lescroart's latest book, which I can't review yet, but as usual I loved catching up with Dismas and Abe.  The Ophelia Cut also references an event that took place six years earlier in Lescroart's The First Law.  The long-kept secret of that event becomes a threat when an article in the news brings attention to it once more.  Have to note that the cover featured on the Amazon site is the worst Lescroart cover--ever.  Someone needs to rethink that concept.

Right now, I'm reading The Fat Chef by Fredrik Nath (mystery set in Paris during WWII) and Animal, Vegetable, Mineral:  A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver (I love Kingsolver's writing, don't know why I delayed so long on getting this one).

Still reading my gardening books, and on occasion, I dip back into the Elizabethan world of spy-craft and read about Walsingham's vendetta against Catholics in The Queen's Agent by John Cooper.  I will finish this one, and I do find it interesting, but since there is so little information available about Walsingham, the book is more about his crusade against Catholicism.   I would not have wanted to be a Catholic priest in England during Elizabeth's reign and within Walsingham's purview.  No.
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My husband heard about this study on NPR:  Mining Books to Map Emotions.  Knowing that I'd be interested, he told me to check it out online.  Which, of course, I did.  You might be interested in the way this study panned out, too.  Can you chart the historic mood of a country by checking on the emotional words that appear...or don't appear.


I had already saved a draft of this post when I saw another reference to it over at Read in a Single Sitting.  Her link was to this article in the Telegraph.