THE INSTITUTE by Stephen King
Why bother? You've seen it all before. It was better the first time.
CAMINO ISLAND by John Grisham
Call me a literary snob and I won’t take umbrage. I’ve never read a novel by Grisham or Patterson or Balducci. I’ve stayed away from Stephen King in the last twenty years though I was crazy about his early work. My tastes run more to women’s fiction, historical fiction, satire. My book club, however, picked Camino Island as our January 2020 book, so I felt compelled to read it. Here are my observations: Why would anyone want to read this story? Nothing much happens after the