Two Envelopes And A Phone’s Reviews > The Covenant > Status Update

I’m on vacation, and if I were only about halfway through this book, I would probably be leaving it for after my time off work. It’s a great book - it’s a profound reading odyssey - but it’s not really a fun book. It’s not escapist. But…I only have just over 100 pages to go, so I’m inclined to just wrap it up tomorrow. Maybe. I just finished the section called ‘Apartheid’, and it finishes with ‘Diamonds’.

Okay, so I’m into some South African history I’m somewhat familiar with, if we sneak in some fictions I have already read. I did read Ladysmith by Giles Foden (author of Last King of Scotland) many years ago, so I know the horror story that played out there and at Spion Kop. Besides that, I read a nonfiction book about Churchill’s Boer War exploits, and then back to fiction with the Doctor Who novel, Players!

I see the light at the end of the pages. Getting it done, chunk by chunky chunk. I like it. I’m taking it as sweeping fiction, built from facts.