More history in the stories

I finished Irish Love Sunday morning while waiting for Grandma and Grandpa to come pick me up to bring me to Owatonna where Kathy and Paul would finish taking me and Grandma to the Lemmings book club (unfortunately, I'm too stuck into the plot of the book I'm currently in the middle of reading - well, actually I'm almost finished with it (under fifty pages left) - to be able to actually describe much of this book). I can say that I greatly enjoyed it and only barely resisted the temptation of checking out from the library the next book in that series - I even had the book in hand (of course, now I can't quite recall what the title was - but alphabetically it was somewhere between Irish Mist and Irish Whiskey.

The discussions at book club were much of what I expected, but that didn't make it any less enjoyable. There's too much to say here - but overall it (The Grapes of Wrath) was a very well liked book.

I'm now reading The Doomsday Key by James Rollins. I've been enjoying the bits of history that are in the book as they've mostly followed bits of history I'm already interested in. The book does have a rather different interpretation of some history than is typically used, but it's still quite believable (although reading the first part that takes place actually in history, rather than being researched in the present, might help with that sense a bit). I liked the part about St. Malachy's predictions about the popes; in thinking on this more, especially in terms of the new movie and books related to the Mayan calender which places the end of the world in 2012 - Malachy's popes stop after the 112th one - that one will see the end of the world. Pope Benedict XVI is the 111th pope, which means it is somewhat conceivable that both time lines are accurate - at least based on how they coincide with each other. Just an interesting thought I had while reading this book. I didn't like the impression I'd gotten of what Ivar and his company Viatus were trying to do with genetically modified grains (at least with the corn); however, after reading his speech of what he'd been planning to do, although I still don't like it, it's not nearly as bad as what I'd thought he was trying to do. I'm intrigued to see how this will end - so I'm going to stop here, and continue reading.

When I finish this book, I plan to move on to Syren, by Angie Sage - it's the next/newest Septimus Heap book.