Drifting through life

I'm reading a bit more than I used to, although nowhere near as much as I did in the past. My current book is Moon over Soho , by Ben Aaronovitch. It's book two in a series of four, about a young constable in London, Peter Grant,  who discovers he has latent magical abilities and is taken under the wing of an older officer, a wizard, who helps him develop those abilities and subsequently solve mysterious cases that don't seem to make sense. Book one is titled Rivers of London; book two as I've stated above is Moon over Soho; book three is Whispers Underground and book four is Broken Homes. There is magic, which I love, murder and mystery which I also love and little bits of nonsensical whimsy which makes me smile and keep reading. I heard about these books from other bloggers and now I'm glad I bought them. The one thing that bothered me isn't such a big deal and by page...whatever...I'd gotten used to it, is the female character Lesley May. In b...

Final Empire. Book one in the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. I don't have a photo of the cover, because I have this on my kindle instead. So here's a couple of quotes..... "...the entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you..." "It's an interesting question. By influencing her emotions, did you take away her ability to choose? If, for instance, she were to kill or steal while under your control, would the crime be hers or yours?" My daughter K first mentioned these books to me a long while back but I hadn't paid attention and forgot about them.  Silly me. More recently we were discussing books and my son J said I should read the Mistborn trilogy. So I downloaded them, yes, all three books, that very same day,  ignored all the other stories already on the kindle and started reading Final Empire.   I was hooked within the first chapter. Book two is titled The Well of Ascension. Book thre...