Books Started and Put Down

I hate to do this but sometimes you just have to. I started two books - both good - but put them down before I finished and started something else. One of them was The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murikami. I really really like it and I will finish it but it just was taking too long and I wasn't sure it was going anywhere.

The other is the Age of Shiva by Manil Suri and I like that. too, but wanted something different. So, I am now nearly done with Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum, an historical novel about the Holocaust and the German women who abetted the Nazis to save themselves and their families. It's a fast read and very gripping.

I am in California on vacation right now and reading a lot.