Great Read!

It took me a while to get into the novel I picked up on the New Book shelf at Butman Fish Library, but once I got past the first 50 pages and grew accustomed to the switching from first person to third person narrative, I became intrigued with the plot. An elderly woman who has no family works as a house sitter; finding that her agency will no longer keep her on becuase of her age, she decides to just take over the house she is sitting and in the course of the novel adopts a family and so the intrigue sets in. Actually I picked up the novel thinking that if I didn't like it Daniel might since it was a crime novel. The book? Half Broken Things by Morag Joss. It is by a British author and set in modern England. That made the reading interesting in finding lots of vocabulary different from ours - boot - trunk of the car; nappies - diapers, etc. If I were a teacher, I'd have been making a list of the vocabulary differences. Also as a teacher there were some many great sentences using personification among other imagery in the wonderfully written descriptions. If I were leading a discussion group, we'd talk about the 'have's and the 'have not's' and the justification of certain crimes, or the affect guilt plays in our life. But,I'm not a teacher anymore!
Well, soon we take off to Kalamazoo and Chicago to celebrate the family birthdays - Miguel 31, Daniel 58, Novali - 5! Excited and must get packed and the house ready for showings while we are gone!