An Update of The Books I Am Reading and What’s on the Horizon!
So last week was as busy as I thought it would be! It started Monday with a short stint babysitting granddaughter Zoe. Then Tuesday at Target, Wednesday with Oliver, Thursday back to Target, Friday half-day with Oliver made longer by Da’s mistake of allowing Oliver and I to sit in the car for a few minutes, whereby he turned some light on that I didn’t notice, which left me with a dead battery, when I went to leave. Can you say those who don’t learn from the past, are condemned to repeat it! Anyway it was back to Target on Saturday. Actually, it was pretty much a standard week wasn’t it….well, you can add in that by Friday I wasn’t feeling my best. I do believe that I have finally caught a milder version of the sinus and cold that his plagued my wife and daughter over the last two weeks. Anyway let’s recap what I did over the week past…..
What I Read…….
In order to keep on pace to read 60 books in 2016, I need to read a book approximately every 6 days and so far I have done just that I finished Book 3 of 2016 The Breaking Point from Jefferson Bass. The Breaking Point is book 9 in The Body Farm series from Jefferson Bass the writing team of Jon Jefferson and University of Tennessee professor and founder of the forensic research center known as The Body Farm, Bill Bass. I love this series not only for the great story lines where forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton uses his talents to solve the crime, but also for his character development throughout the series. Bill has faced some pretty tough personal problems over the series. In The Breaking Point, the authors go back in time to take us through a period of Bill’s life where those problems, both professional and personal almost destroyed him!! I will try to write about all three of the books that I have finished this year this week, I promise!!
Along with The Breaking Point I have also continued my examination of the past, as I read more of In Retrospect by Robert McNamara. It is an interesting read. Once again I’ll say that it is enlightening to read an account of what was happening concerning the Vietnam War from someone who was in the inner circle!!
Finally, I started Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish. Mr Lish won the 2015 Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction for this work. From PenFaulkner.org……
Atticus Lish’s Preparation for the Next Life is a document of the undocumented and an unlikely love story between a Chinese Muslim immigrant, Zou Lei, and a traumatized Iraq War veteran, Skinner. Skinner comes to New York after a disastrous tour in Iraq, looking for a party, “holding to the idea that if he partied hard enough, he’d eventually succeed in having a good time and would start wanting to live again.” Zou Lei comes to New York fresh from a deportation scare in order to, “stay where everybody was illegal just like her and get lost in the crowd.” When they cross paths in a food court, they fall into a relationship haunted by Zou Lei’s fear of deportation and the symptoms of Skinner’s post-traumatic stress disorder. Read More
Needless to say, its been a good read so far!!!
What May Be on My Reading Horizon…..
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Yesterday as my wife shopped at Home Goods, I took a trip to Barnes & Noble and while I’d like to gobble up all the books that interest me, my bank account says otherwise. So I usually only take out my phone and make a list of the books so I can check for them at the library!! On my list were……
The Promise – the latest Elvis Cole and Joe Pike book from Robert Crais. This book is the 16th adventure for Private Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike, and while I’d like to check it out of the library right now I am two books behind in the series. So hopefully, I can pick up The Sentry and Taken and then tackle The Promise!
Orphan X – Gregg Hurwitz – Repeat after me …. I will not put off reading a Gregg Hurwitz book!! From Goodreads…..
Orphan X is the most gripping, high-octane thriller I’ve read in a long, long time. Hang onto your seat because Gregg Hurwitz will take you on a dizzying ride you’ll not soon forget!” –Tess Gerritsen
The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It’s said that when he’s reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. Read More
and if that’s not enough for you Robert Crais says it’s….. “The most exciting thriller since The Bourne Identity”….
American Blood – Ben Sanders…….from Goodreads
In Ben Sanders’s American Blood, a former undercover cop now in witness protection finds himself pulled into the search for a missing woman; film rights sold to Warner Bros with Bradley Cooper attached to star and produce. Read More.
Sounds intriguing doesn’t it?
I Am Death – Chris Carter – This is Book 7 in Carter’s series featuring Robert Hunter, none of which I have read……from Goodreads…
AN EVIL MIND was Chris Carters’s most acclaimed novel to date, described by the Daily mail as: ‘A chilling, compulsive portrait of a psychopath, and proves that Carter is now in the Jeffrey Deaver class.’ It spent three weeks in the Sunday Timestop ten and received brillant reviews and sales. Read More
Hmm, do I star the series with this book or do I go back and start with book one The Crucifix Killer!!
Finally, well actually it’s not really final there were several more non-fiction titles that looked interesting, and a couple of literature award-winning authors whose work I may explore, so maybe I’ll write another posts concerning those books and authors….. but here is the last in the mystery and thriller genre!!
The Bone Labyrinth A Sigma Force Novel – James Rollins. I have been a big fan of Rollins Sigma Force novels a great mix of action adventure and historical intrigue with a great cast of characters! I have read just about all of these novels, one of the exceptions is The 6th Extinction Book 10 in the series. So I did request that book from the library last night. I think I want to read it before I read the new book, especially after reading the following at Goodreads……
A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will leave readers changed forever . . .
In this groundbreaking masterpiece of ingenuity and intrigue that spans 50,000 years in human history, New York Timesbestselling author James Rollins takes us to mankind’s next great leap.
But will it mark a new chapter in ou
r development . . . or our extinction? Read More
Ok so this post was to be an update of not only what I read but what I’ve been listening to, as well as, some health and well-being stuff, but I guess those will have to wait for future posts!!
P.S. I actually did not request The 6th Extinction last night, I requested Orphan X and I am 8th in line for that book. I checked with the library about the availibilty of The 6th Extinction and it is checked in at my branch of the library and since I have two books to return, a trip to the library today, may be in order!!
