The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald

Okay, well, I finished "Patty Jane's House of Curl" by Lorna Landvik. Loved it, loved it, loved it. Lorna Landvik reminds me so much of Fannie Flagg (recall, Fried Green Tomatoes, the movie made from her book - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe). One minute you're laughing your ass off, the next you're crying your eyes out. I loved the characters in it, I loved the story line, I loved the book. It's always an awesome thing to find a new author that you love. You'd think with all the books out there one wouldn't have a hard time finding a good one but it isn't always that easy. I plan on adding Lorna Landvik to my list and buying any book of hers I can get my hands on.

I am now on to my next novel. Though I didn't realize it, I've read this author before - Fall on Your Knees - a novel I read years ago (an Oprah book) and loved. I hope to love this one as well. It's an epic novel about the McCarthy family starting in 1962 (no coincidence the name and time period, I'm sure). The family has just moved to Canada from Germany where the father, Jack, has been put in charge of a top secret assignment: caring for a Soviet defector who will eventually be transferred to the Americans. Jack discovers that the defector was also a former Nazi officer who commanded slave labor at the German rocket research facility..hmm. At the same time, his daughter, Madeleine, is dealing with some abuses at school, until one of her friends is found murdered. The mystery continues as we fast foward to Madeleine's adult years and struggles to make sense of what happened during her childhood. I'm sure there will be an epiphany and realization about her father tied in there somewhere. We'll see. I'll start it today.

K - I'm off.