Exceedingly Mundane

I finished another book last night, “A Circle of Grace” by Penelope J. Stokes. It was good, although not great, but I really enjoyed it. I need to add a review to Hambones, but basically, this book is a story of 4 college friends, who spend 4 years together, then go their separate ways to live their lives. They keep in touch through the years with a “circle journal” that they pass around between them, to write about their lives and relationships. Except, no one completely tells the truth until they have an unexpected reunion some 30 years later. I love books like this that traces a character’s life, where you get to see what happens to them and those around them.

This book had an oddity to it – it made me shed a few tears at the ending. I don’t normally cry a lot at books (The Notebook being the notable exception, I bawled at the end of that book), but this one was a tearjerker at the end. A good tearjerker, but a tearjerker none the less. 😥

This brings my book count to 19 so far for the year, with a total of 6,972 pages read. Up next to read is the third in the Redemption series, by Karen Kingsbury with Gary Smalley. This one is entitled “Return”. I was on the waiting list at the library for several weeks for this book, so I guess I better get busy and get to reading… and then take it back, someone else may be on the list behind me, waiting for it. 🙂