I love the Robin Cook medical mysteries. Remember the movie Coma? It was done by Robin Cook first. And, since visiting the UK, I'm into Jane Austen. I visited some of the manor houses where the movies of her books were filmed. And, I found out that the author, William Golding, of Lord of the Flies, another one of my favorites, was a professor in Salisbury, England. And I saw the house where he grew up in Marlborough, England. The movie of Lord of the Flies, made several years ago, was awful by the way.

I have so many favorites. Although, I'm not the Stephen King type, I read the Stand twice. It's a fun book to read during the cold/flu season. People in the novel are catching Captain Tripp's disease. So when someone at work coughs, you think, oh my gosh, they have it!

I saw a play entitled "Kess" in Salisbury. It was based on a coming-of-age book by a British author I can't remember. Those of you in the UK who are familiar with this book, what happens to the boy at the end? Does he die, or is it, what doesn't kill him, makes him stronger? I found the ending very confusing. It ends so sad and hopeless, I wasn't sure if he committed suicide. I haven't read the book yet, so maybe the book makes it clearer.