Author: Boyne, John

I downloaded this book for our recent Saskatchewan trip and completely forgot about it until I got a notice that it was due in a couple of days. I was able to renew it for three weeks but it only took a week to finish it.

As I started reading I thought it was more of a children’s story and I could see reading it aloud to someone about the same age as Noah. I had a bit of an insight into what the story was really about very close to the end when the second character in the story wishes he had never become a real boy. Yes, it is the story of Pinnocchio but long after Geppetto has died.

I’m not so sure it is a good kid’s story but I certainly enjoyed it.

Goodreads Rating: * * * *

Author: Clinton, Hillary Rodham & Penny, Louise

Pat picked up this book on our recent Saskatchewan trip. I’d heard of the novel but until we had it in hand I wasn’t terribly interested.

It was slow to get going and there was no escaping the parallels between the fiction and the reality of today’s world. I managed to get over that and into the book but lost it again at the end when Three Pines and Inspector Armand Gamache were added to the plot. I understand why they were added but felt it was unnecessary.

Goodreads Rating: * * *