Book Count: 54
The Chapel of Bones By: Michael Jecks
Fiction: Mystery, historic 421 pages 2004
This story takes place in the 1300’s in England and is based off, in part, of an actual murder that took place 40 years before this story. Like all medieval mystery books (or at least any that I’ve read) the story is a million pages long, but it keeps you into the story and guessing what will happen until the end. Also in this one you learn the formula for medieval swearing. Which appears to be 1. name referring to Jesus, i.e. Jesus, Christ, God. 2. body part with the general offensiveness of the body part or words used for it. i.e. ass is more offensive then butt, relating to the force of your feelings. As this is a book in which people have lots of strong feelings on things there are a number of things said that most people would never even dream of saying in public today for fear of angry mobs. At least, not together.
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