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Hi again everyone,

I'm back from my honeymoon and am putting up the books to be voted on for June's Read. May's to read is Kim by Rudyard Kipling, and we're currently reading I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.

This month the books are wildly different from each other. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy was suggested by a book club member, while I picked the other two in an effort to round out the reading list. Let me know what you think!

Cheers
Heather

Here are the synopses:

The Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy's masterwork, Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians and sell those scalps. Loosely based on fact, the novel represents a genius vision of the historical West, one so fiercely realized that since its initial publication in 1985 the canon of American literature has welcomed Blood Meridian to its shelf.

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body, this classic horror story pits detective against dog. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles' heir comes to an equally gruesome end.

The Hound Of The Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination.

I Claudius by Robert Graves

Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In I, Claudius he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors: from the wise Augustus and his villainous wife Livia to the sadistic Tiberius and the insane excesses of Caligula.

That's too bad brainiac. Hopefully you'll be joining us in May with Kim and maybe in July again for who knows what. :)

I did do a little bit of reading while I was gone, but I'm a little embarrassed to say it was definitely not intellectual reading. At risk of sounding very silly, I read a Clive Cussler novel. The first one of his I've read. It was nice, predictable and easy to read. :)