Two more books

I figure that whenever I don't have anything to post about, I will write about the books I am reading. I finished two over the last few days. I listened to People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks and I just finished Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt about 45 minutes ago. They were both interesting, but I liked Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil more because it was non-fiction. I usually think a true story is more engaging and impressive than fiction.
It is about Savannah, Georgia and the crazy people who lived there in the 80's and early 90's. There is also a murder mystery and a sassy black drag queen named The Lady Chablis.
People of the Book started out really great-an old Haggadah was found with illumination (apparently forbidden in Jewish texts) and lots of little mysteries: a butterfly wing, a blood stain mixed with non-kosher wine, some sea salt, and a painted cat hair- but it ended a bit drama-your-momma when Mossad and conspiracy and fraud were brought in for no real reason. The beginning of the book was really intriguing without the hokey hijinks, so why make it a thriller? The story follows the woman who is studying the old text while an alternate story tells the history of the book in reverse, explaining each of the mysterious discoveries. To be fair, I might have liked it better if I had read it instead of listening to it. The plot would have seemed more connected.
Now I am reading Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers and listening to some of those Modern Scholars lectures. I got a set about Western Civilization from Athens to Rome and the Four Gospels. Sunrise over Fallujah is the sequel to Fallen Angels about the Vietnam War. I read it a few times in middle and high school, so I am excited to read this one. The protagonist of the sequel is the nephew of one of the protagonists in the original.