Rain, rain, go away...

I have homework to do, so...guess that makes it blogging time!  Just lugged groceries home in the rain and do not feel like writing essay critiques.  The reading shouldn't be the issue, but the writing is always a pain.  Well, baby steps, I guess.  Reincarnationist was pretty bad.  I kept reading it, because it was either that or fight-starting texts to the guy I tried to break up with over the weekend (which is great, since we weren't even dating), but it was predictable and boring, no matter how many explosions, sex scenes, assasins, and buried treasures were crammed in.  I think it's the first in the series, but I can't see myself reading more unless I am REALLY bored and the book is for sale RIGHT in front of me for REALLY cheap.  And, you know, I am in the mood for something totally pointless.  Wench, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, on the other hand, was really good.  Roughly, its the story of four slave women, and some slave men, who are brought over the course of a couple summers by their masters to a resort in the North, just before the Civil War.  One of them women ends up being the main character (although not the woman I initially though the book would center on), but all the women, and most of the characters, were well drawn.  Of course, mark of a good book - the more fully-drawn each of the characters were, the more I wanted to know about them!  I would be thrilled if the author were to even tell almost the same story four times, from the point of view of the different women, and I would devour each book as soon as I could.  The men, particularly the white men don't fare as well (the slaveowners are especially one-dimensional), but a minor issue.