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So, I did finish Lord of the World. I enjoyed it, but I'm not quite sure about the end; it was left a little open and I'm not fully sure what happened. I have the general idea and a few ideas as to the specifics, but nothing exact.

I then decided that I wanted to read The Midnight Tunnel: A Susanna Snow Mystery by Angie Frazier next - it sounded as if it would be somewhat like the "Mandie" books by Lois Gladys Leppard which I'd enjoyed immensely and it would be a quick read so that I'd still have time to read the next book club book before we meet on Thursday. Both of my assumptions were right with this book and I'm thoroughly hoping for more to come; based on the subtitle for this one, I highly suspect there will be more. I was not very impressed with Zanna's uncle, the famous Bruce Snow (Boston's Sherlock Holmes)- he seemed more interested in a big show of effort and success than in finding the truth.

I have now started Gail Godwin's book, Evensong; I hadn't known much about it when I started it - just that it was about two Presbyterian ministers (a husband and wife). I'm quite enjoying gettting to know the two of them and am eager to see where they go from here (I'm about 1/3 of the way through, so far). I'm often somewhat reminded of Jan Karon's "Mitford" series with this book, and keep thinking that Margaret and Adrian Bonner should be Episcopalian, like Fr. Tim from Jan Karon's books - I just have to remember that they're not. As a side note, when looking up Margaret's name (she's the narrator, so her name isn't mentioned as often as some of the other characters' names), I just learned that she's the title character from another one of Gail Godwin's books - Fr. Melancholy's Daughter, so now I'm going to need to read that as well; and this might lead to me reading much of Gail Godwin's work in general. These people feel very real and that is, I think, what makes it so easy for me to know them and to want to learn more about them - sometimes I think I'd like to have a chat with them myself.