New Books To Read

This appears to be the month that two anticipated novels become available. Why the distributors and publishers chose after Mother’s Day (in the United States) to release these books is a questions I’d like to have answered. It would seem to me that they are books you would buy for Mom, particularly since both books are the next in a series involving one character. I suppose maybe these books are something that Mom might trade the (always well thought out gift of a) Cuisinart for, as I’m reasonably sure Mom would rather be kicking back with a glass of wine reading than producing Panini sandwiches for the gang.

In any case, the first book is the next of Dan Brown’s series about Robert Langdon and his encounters with the mystic world of symbolism. I’ve read all of Brown’s other books, and I look forward to reading Inferno, although I think it rather presumptuous of his editors to allow him to invoke Dante Alighieri. I’ve read all his other work (Did I forget to list them on Goodreads?), and the Langdon stories are getting better with time, so I hope that trend continues. Deception Point and Digital Fortress aren’t up to his later work, and are probably only of interest since The DaVinci Code became such a hit.

The second novel coming this month is another Dean Koontz Odd Thomas story. This series is strangely engaging and yet not enough that I want to read every novel by this prolific writer. I can therefore only judge his work from the Odd Thomas novels, yet I still anticipate the new one with as much interest as I had after reading the first. A movie about this character has been made and the release date is as yet uncertain, as far as I can see. The novels sustain the character pretty well, but I don’t know if the movie will. The trailer available on some Internet sites suggests that it will be touch and go.
Happy reading.

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