Finished "Lie Down with Lions" by Ken Follett. Finally. The last book I finished was in February, meaning it took me 6 months to read 372 pages (about 2 pages a day on average), through no fault of Mr. Follett. I've just had a lot of distractions this year, and fell out of the reading habit a lot of the time. It does amuse me reading the back of the book where it says, "This is his most ambitious novel..." I was introduced to Follett through the Pillars of the Earth. At the time it was a trilogy, but apparently there's now a prequel, written in 2020.
Anyway, as this book goes, it was good. It takes place during the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. There were parts of it that are dated, of course - it was written in 1985 - and parts of it that zoomed past. One chapter in particular was action-packed and built momentum toward the end of the book. All in all, I liked it.
