Your Soul's Compass

This book is by Joan Borysenko and Gordon Dveirin. The subject is spiritual guidance, also known as discernment.

The book is based on the author's interviews with a group of people that they consider to be "sages". I was not wild about the way the book was organized, so I only skimmed most of it, but it did offer some good tidbits here and there.

I guess the main points were to look at what your heart is telling you, don't get too attached to things and be patient. Hopefully, I am not overly simplifying things.

Give it a try if it looks good to you. If I missed anything important, please let me know.

A Corpse in the Koryo

This is a great book!!!

Written by James Church (not his real name), a former western intelligence officer, it is a fictional account of a North Korean police inspector involved in a very complex murder case. The Koryo is a hotel in Pyongyang where the body is found.

Lots of twists and turns and several other incidents all come together as the book progresses. Throw in some apparently realistic local color, and you get a very interesting read.

I found this book after reading about the sequel in the Washington Post last Sunday but decided to read the first in the series first. I look forward to reading the second book; it has to do with a bank robbery in Pyongyang. Will keep you posted.

The Mousetrap

This is a play by Agatha Christie.

From what I have read, this play has been performed since the 1950's at one theater in London and has broken many records as a result. Audiences are asked not to reveal the killer to others after they leave. The secret has leaked, because I saw the killer revealed on the internet. I decided to read the play anyway.

It was hard to read compared to a novel with the stage directions and all that. I thought it choppy.

The killer was as expected from the internet "reveal". Things came to a head in the play very suddenly in a "not very well done" way, if you ask me. Maybe it was because I knew who the killer was from the start.

I think I would pass on this one if I were you. You might read the plot summary and reveal on the internet and save the time of reading the whole thing.