Current Favorite

I thought The Associate would top my list this month-- how can you not love John Grisham doing what he does best?--but I finally got around to Jeffery Archer's Prisoner of Birth and it's a hands-down favorite so far. This is the kind of brilliant story telling I most admire: clever, sophisticated, and unabashed. Books like this make me remember how much I love reading.

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Pat in east TN said…
Guess I have yet another book to add to my TBR (to be read) pile .. Prisoner of Birth.
April 15, 2009 at 6:46 PM
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