BOOK REPORTS—

Hour Game by David Baldacci

I like Baldacci’s stuff for an easy and entertaining read. Mind candy, so to speak. The heroes of this tale are two Secret Service agents turned private investigators who are confronted by a serial killer mixed in with a dysfunctional, aristocratic family. In spite of having more plot turns and victims than a mountain road has curves this is another fun read.


Bathroom Reader by The Bathroom Readers’ Institute

This book contains 504 pages of whimsical trivia perfectly suited to those brief periods of daily scholarship. Topics range from “Triskaidekaphobia” to “Vampires on Bikini Beach”. And, on the bottom of each page is a delightful squib like this: “According to the Weekly World News, Heaven’s fax number is 011-972-2-612222.” You may find that amusing, but that could be a really helpful number to know someday.


The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux

This novel contains three short stories that take a penetrating look at life in India. The flyleaf says, “Theroux’s Westerners risk venturing far beyond the subcontinent’s well worn paths...A middle aged couple veers heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds succor in Mumbai’s reeking slums. And a young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore.” She wishes that is all she experienced. Good read!


Racing Toward Armageddon by Michael Baigent

The word “Armageddon” and the sub-title “The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World” appear to be the work of marketing gurus rather than the author of this scholarly, religion-oriented tome. While not exactly bedside reading, it does probe some interesting concepts, such as, belief in one God by today’s major religions while many other known societies in the world believed in many divinities.