2011 Reading Log
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thank you for getting a library card as that is my living for last 20 years selling to them... it still amazes me that probably 90% of the people in the US do not realize what a resource this is and especially the high tech guys that can download everything from home:0074
Tiger turned me on to the JT Ellison series and I was amazed that I never heard of it being in publishing and her whole series is based in Nashville where I live... it makes you feel more a part of the story when you can relate to everything in the books:0074
Thanks Dunclock ! I will check out JT Ellison series, will let you know what I think. Also my wife gave me ( for Easter )3 books by Michael Connelly she picked up at our Library used book sale. I'm retired & only working 2 days a week, looking forward sitting on deck this summer reading & sleeping.
Just ordered a copy of this. have you read this one yet?
http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Cage-Martial-Miletich-Furious/dp/B004KAB78K/ref=pd_sim_b_15
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28) ** The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve
A highly acclaimed book, but I didn't like the interweaving of the two stories.
29) ***** Animal, vegetable, miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
If you read one book about food, this is it. About how their family tried to eat locally for a year. Great facts and touching stories.
30) ***** Stone Cold (Camel Club, #3), David Baldacci
A highly acclaimed book, but I didn't like the interweaving of the two stories.
29) ***** Animal, vegetable, miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
If you read one book about food, this is it. About how their family tried to eat locally for a year. Great facts and touching stories.
30) ***** Stone Cold (Camel Club, #3), David Baldacci
To "The Mover".............what 3 Michael Connelly books did you get for Easter ?
I have read about 2/3 of Connelly's vast catelogue of works, and my favourites have been:
The Poet
The Scarecrow
Echo Park
The 5th Witness
And just finished "The Black Ice, which was also very good..................will review it in here probably tomorrow.
Tiger
I have read about 2/3 of Connelly's vast catelogue of works, and my favourites have been:
The Poet
The Scarecrow
Echo Park
The 5th Witness
And just finished "The Black Ice, which was also very good..................will review it in here probably tomorrow.
Tiger
Tiger.... I'm 75 % into The Scarecrow pretty good, the other books are Echo Park & I think the Poet. I guess it doesn't make much of a difference but I should have read the Poet before The scarecrow. Will check out Black Ice when I'm through with these. Thanks for the tip.
Looks like you've got the cream of the Connelly crop there Mover.................enjoy !
3 more reviews in the Crime/Thriller category...........
1) "A Little Yellow Dog" by Walter Mosley.
My first Mosley book, and it was different, that's for sure. Set in 1964 in Los Angeles amid very high racial tension, this novel finds a high school janitor taking a teacher's dog "just for one night" while that teacher figures things out with her gangster husband. Several dead bodies later the janitor still has the dog, and is trying to solve more than one murder.
It was not a boring book, but was slow moving, and I think I'll probably read Mosely again at some point, but not right away.
3/5
2) "The Black Ice" by Michael Connelly.
Another gritty, get your hands dirty novel from Connelly. When LA Detective Harry Bosch finds an undercover narcotics officer dead from a self inflicted bullet to the head, things just don't add up. Black Ice is the latest super drug finding it's way up from Mexico into LA, and Bosch finds the trail and follows it.
I liked it a lot...............Connelly writes very realistic crime novels.
4/5
3)"The Blue Nowhere" by Jeffery Deaver.
I am a big fan of Deaver, and this older novel of his was no exception. A computer wizard is playing an on-line murder game, and things get a little too blurred for him between on-line and real life. The cops need their own computer wizard to help them find the bad guy, so they get one released from prison to help them. No, nothing can go wrong with this plan, can it ?
It wasn't my favourite Deaver, but he always keeps you guessing until the last page.
4/5
Am presently reading "Blindsighted" by Karen Slaughter, and have my To-Be-Read bookshelf full of Scott Turows, JT Ellisons, Michael Connellys, Tami Hoags, Greg Iles, Jeffery Deavers, and several others.......................haven't decided yet who is next.
Happy Reading !
Tiger
3 more reviews in the Crime/Thriller category...........
1) "A Little Yellow Dog" by Walter Mosley.
My first Mosley book, and it was different, that's for sure. Set in 1964 in Los Angeles amid very high racial tension, this novel finds a high school janitor taking a teacher's dog "just for one night" while that teacher figures things out with her gangster husband. Several dead bodies later the janitor still has the dog, and is trying to solve more than one murder.
It was not a boring book, but was slow moving, and I think I'll probably read Mosely again at some point, but not right away.
3/5
2) "The Black Ice" by Michael Connelly.
Another gritty, get your hands dirty novel from Connelly. When LA Detective Harry Bosch finds an undercover narcotics officer dead from a self inflicted bullet to the head, things just don't add up. Black Ice is the latest super drug finding it's way up from Mexico into LA, and Bosch finds the trail and follows it.
I liked it a lot...............Connelly writes very realistic crime novels.
4/5
3)"The Blue Nowhere" by Jeffery Deaver.
I am a big fan of Deaver, and this older novel of his was no exception. A computer wizard is playing an on-line murder game, and things get a little too blurred for him between on-line and real life. The cops need their own computer wizard to help them find the bad guy, so they get one released from prison to help them. No, nothing can go wrong with this plan, can it ?
It wasn't my favourite Deaver, but he always keeps you guessing until the last page.
4/5
Am presently reading "Blindsighted" by Karen Slaughter, and have my To-Be-Read bookshelf full of Scott Turows, JT Ellisons, Michael Connellys, Tami Hoags, Greg Iles, Jeffery Deavers, and several others.......................haven't decided yet who is next.
Happy Reading !
Tiger
Tiger... are you not a Baldacci fan?
I just finished last night "Caught" by Harlan Coben and him being one of my top 3 I of course liked it :0074
I just finished last night "Caught" by Harlan Coben and him being one of my top 3 I of course liked it :0074
Dunny............no, have not read Baldacci................what kind of mysteries does he write.....................could you recommend one or two of his better books ?
Thanks.
Thanks.
WOW am I surprised you have not picked any of his up!!! I would say he is no worse than in top 10 in sales worldwide.
He has 3 series and all are great... The Camel Club series... King and Maxwell series... Shaw series
Camel Club has 5 and all very entertaining with mix of characters intertwined
You remember the movie Absolute Truth starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman? That was his book .... pretty sure you will really enjoy him and here is link to his site
http://davidbaldacci.com/
He has 3 series and all are great... The Camel Club series... King and Maxwell series... Shaw series
Camel Club has 5 and all very entertaining with mix of characters intertwined
You remember the movie Absolute Truth starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman? That was his book .... pretty sure you will really enjoy him and here is link to his site
http://davidbaldacci.com/
Thanks Dunny.............I`ve read the back jacket of a few of his books, but if I remember correctly, most seemed to be political\spy kinda novels, and that genre is not my favourite..............probably why I have never bought one.
But I see his name come up in this thread quite a bit, so maybe it's time !
But I see his name come up in this thread quite a bit, so maybe it's time !
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31) ***** Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
Fascinating story in an intriguing setting of the circus.
32) *** Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
First in the MaddAdam trilogy - I will read the second. This one just started really slow, but the ending was better.
33) ***** Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
Probably not a book most men would enjoy, but a great read for women. One I will definitely give to my girls someday.
Fascinating story in an intriguing setting of the circus.
32) *** Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
First in the MaddAdam trilogy - I will read the second. This one just started really slow, but the ending was better.
33) ***** Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
Probably not a book most men would enjoy, but a great read for women. One I will definitely give to my girls someday.
I've lost count on the number of books but really enjoyed this read.
THE OLD MAN AND THE WASTELAND
Forty years after the destruction of civilization? Man is reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world. One man?s most prized possession is Hemingway?s Classic ?The Old Man and the Sea.? With the words of the novel echoing across the wasteland, the survivor of a Nuclear Holocaust journeys into the unknown to break a curse.
What follows is an incredible tale of survival and endurance.
One man must survive the desert wilderness and mankind gone savage to discover the truth of Hemingway?s classic tale of man versus nature.
Part Hemingway, part Cormac McCarthy?s The Road, a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of the Post-Apocalyptic American southwest.
THE OLD MAN AND THE WASTELAND
Forty years after the destruction of civilization? Man is reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world. One man?s most prized possession is Hemingway?s Classic ?The Old Man and the Sea.? With the words of the novel echoing across the wasteland, the survivor of a Nuclear Holocaust journeys into the unknown to break a curse.
What follows is an incredible tale of survival and endurance.
One man must survive the desert wilderness and mankind gone savage to discover the truth of Hemingway?s classic tale of man versus nature.
Part Hemingway, part Cormac McCarthy?s The Road, a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of the Post-Apocalyptic American southwest.
The Smart Money [Kindle Edition]
Michael Konik
In 1997, gaming journalist Konik joined the Brain Trust, a sports-gambling operation that took in millions by beating the Vegas bookies at their own game. This fascinating inside look at the gambling biz (perfectly suited, incidentally, to fans of the recent movie Two for the Money) reveals so much information that you would swear the author was breaking some sort of Omerta-like code of silence; in fact, the parallels between organized gambling and organized crime are numerous. The book created plenty of buzz in the publishing community well before its release, so expect a great deal of publicity and high reader interest. The author conceals the identities of the principal players behind fake names, but his fictionalized stand-ins are so compelling (especially the Brain Trust chieftain, Rick "Big Daddy" Matthews) that the book feels like a mixture of true-life expose and high-stakes fiction (fans of Puzo's Fools Die may see some similarities but only in a good way). A definite must-read for the gambling crowd. David Pitt
Copyright ? American Library Association. All rights reserved
Michael Konik
In 1997, gaming journalist Konik joined the Brain Trust, a sports-gambling operation that took in millions by beating the Vegas bookies at their own game. This fascinating inside look at the gambling biz (perfectly suited, incidentally, to fans of the recent movie Two for the Money) reveals so much information that you would swear the author was breaking some sort of Omerta-like code of silence; in fact, the parallels between organized gambling and organized crime are numerous. The book created plenty of buzz in the publishing community well before its release, so expect a great deal of publicity and high reader interest. The author conceals the identities of the principal players behind fake names, but his fictionalized stand-ins are so compelling (especially the Brain Trust chieftain, Rick "Big Daddy" Matthews) that the book feels like a mixture of true-life expose and high-stakes fiction (fans of Puzo's Fools Die may see some similarities but only in a good way). A definite must-read for the gambling crowd. David Pitt
Copyright ? American Library Association. All rights reserved
Valley of the Dead (The Truth Behind Dante's Inferno) [Kindle Edition]
Kim Paffenroth (Author), Dante Alighieri (Author)
Working from Dante?s Inferno to draw out the reality behind the fantasy, author Kim Paffenroth unfolds the horrifying true events that led Dante to fictionalize the account of his lost years?
Kim Paffenroth (Author), Dante Alighieri (Author)
Working from Dante?s Inferno to draw out the reality behind the fantasy, author Kim Paffenroth unfolds the horrifying true events that led Dante to fictionalize the account of his lost years?
FYI to all of you Kindle users ... Amazon is FINALLY releasing rights to libraries anyday so you will be able to download books from the library for FREE!
I just completed all of JT Ellison books thanks to the recommendation of Tiger and anyone that lives in Nashville or knows about the city will LOVE these ... its very cool when you know all the places, streets, landmarks, restaurants , etc in the book so you feel more like you art of them!
also anyone that likes good serial killer fiction that is based on a female lieutenant of homicide with an FBI profiler for her boyfriend
I just completed all of JT Ellison books thanks to the recommendation of Tiger and anyone that lives in Nashville or knows about the city will LOVE these ... its very cool when you know all the places, streets, landmarks, restaurants , etc in the book so you feel more like you art of them!
also anyone that likes good serial killer fiction that is based on a female lieutenant of homicide with an FBI profiler for her boyfriend
LEt me know when that goes through Andy. I can't find anything on it for my library.
Reading Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won
Will let you know what I think.
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Reading Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won
Will let you know what I think.
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