A re-read, better this time than the first. I have other books but these keep calling me from the book shelf, and I answer.






14th of 2013

This and Grandmother Spider are, in my opinion, the best of the series so far. Can't remember what's ahead, but I loved these two especially.

Been working in the booth for a production of Oklahoma this weekend, so I have a couple:

1) When the lights are on (Book 1.0): _The Columbus Affair_ by Steve Berry. Another conspiracy adventure thriller (with the Magellan Billet, but not Cotton Malone) where tales of Columbus's lost mine are mixed with the fate of the temple sacred items from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD.

2) When the lights are off (nook Glow): _Zero Day_ by David Baldacci. I think someone here said this was Baldacci's try at a Jack Reacher. I definitely see the parallels, though Puller, so far, seems far more human and less mythic. Although I'm only 100 pages in.

Listening: _The Thirteen Problems_ by Agatha Christie. Miss Marple short stories.

Just started listening to The Passage, which I think is the first in what's going to be (is?) a trilogy. Not entirely sure what it's "about," but I'm pretty darn sure it isn't good. It appears to be set in a near future dystopian US after some sort of war, not yet fully described. Big Brother is at work, with all movement tracked, for reasons not yet clear. The "Government" is testing something nefarious on human subjects. I'd probably get a C if I had to write a book report about it, but it has me mostly riveted, and I'm happy to listen while the plot unfolds. .

It's a pretty good zombie apocalypse novel. It's the first of a trilogy though I wasn't able to get through the second book.

If you really like zombie apocalypses - and let's face, who doesn't? - you have to read Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger novels.

Ledger is kind of like Jack Reacher with a sense of humor.

I've liked everything of her's I've read. She tells a good story, without all the wordy bloatware you get from a lot of modern novels.

Missed this one somehow, and there's one out this month. Have to get caught up. Series about Joe Pickett, Game Warden in Bighorn Mtns., WY.

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15th of 2013

By Jess Walter.

The last Van Gogh by Alyson Richman is good. It is fiction but based on the life of Vincent van Gogh. The book covers the last few months of his life. The lead character is the daughter of the doctor who was supposedly taking care of van Gogh. It is both an historical novel and a love story.