The Great American Read: Day 98 Swan Song

Swan Song by Robert McCammon, another long one in the 900 page range, is closer to a realistic "the world is ending" book then the Left Behind books I am currently reading, but why is so much of this literature anti-Russia?  Russia is the ultimate bad guy, isn't he/she?  I think Russia is a woman, right?  Countries seem to be women- "Motherland" and all that.  Any way, I am starting to feel bad for Russia but then I remember they "rigged the 2016 election" and Hollywood has programmed me that all Russians are villains----< insert sarcasm>----- but seriously the cliche is weighing me down.





I did have a great "mom time off" with this book though.  I walked down to my local pizza place, bought a pizza Kevin McCallister style, and ate and read in PEACE while reading about war and starvation (ironic?).  Any way, this is obviously a well loved book but less obvious is that it came from the library.  This book will go in the "meh" category until I form a better opinion of it as I only read about 27 pages.  But if anyone is casting for the mini-series of this book, not the champion ski movie of the same name, I want to play Sister Creep, "Sweet Jesus, come on your flying saucer and take me home!"  Any way, happy reading, I have only 2 books left so let me keep it short and sweet till I can get back to Popsugar Reading Challenge 2018. 

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