What Fiction are you reading this week, April 27, 2025?

[Jilly_in_VA]

9. Finally finished

Great Lion of God, by Taylor Caldwell, her novel about St. Paul, to which I had sentenced myself as a Lenten penance since I don't particularly like Paul. Yeah, I know it dragged out until after Easter, and that's my fault for starting it late in Lent! I can say a couple of things about it. It didn't make me like Paul any better, but the writing, as always with her books, was extremely good, and it interconnected with at least one other of her books, Dear and Glorious Physician, one of my favorites, very well. It was also extremely tedious and longer than it could have been.

I'm now reading a biography of Harry Truman, who's the first president I remember, called The Accidental President, by A.J. Balme. It focuses on his early life and the first four months of his presidency. No, of course it's not fiction. I kind of wish it still were, because some of the things he had to do were pretty horrendous...but I still think they were probably necessary, and I still think he was a greater president than many.