When I was thinking this morning about last Thursday night’s visit to the library, where the spring book sale was in progress, my thoughts went to the old Dorothy Parker quote. When asked by Franklin P Adams to use horticulture in a sentence, she responded “You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her [...]
So last Saturday, while my wife was at an Antiques appraisal in Beverly, I dropped off the last few boxes of clothes and Christmas decorations of my mother’s at Goodwill. Now I can’t go to Goodwill without check out the used books. I took a quick look through the books and picked up The Alexandria [...]
So we ran an errand today and I ended up in Barnes & Nobles checking out the new books…considering the way I’m moving through Creole Belle from James Lee Burke and now Blood Gospel from James Rollins it may be a awhile before I get to something new! Oh, and I’ve just started the impeachment [...]
Ok so how many books is it Ok to read at one time? Right now, I’m reading five! Is that too many? On the fiction side, I’m reading the latest from novel from one of my all time favorite authors James Lee Burke,Creole Belle. He is such a great writer! It takes about two to [...]
So the other night I took an armful of books back to the library, several untouched and overdue, and I was good, only bringing one back in return! The title of the one was Your Playlist Can Change Your Life: 10 Proven Ways Your Favorite Music Can Revolutionize Your Health, Memory, Organization, Alertness and More.How [...]
While I was browsing online this afternoon I saw the following quote, which I love! “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin It’s the reason that I read! Since I’ve kept track of the books I’ve read, somewhere around 1987 there’s 880 [...]
The first Stanley Hastings mystery I read was the fourth book in the series Strangler. I loved it and quickly went back and read the others and I haven’t missed another one in the series which is now at seventeen! Scam is book 12 in the series. According to Parnell’s Facebook post ” SCAM, my [...]
Ok so I see where my reading time will be spent over the next few months here’s some of the books to be released over the next several months: Blood Line – James Rollins – a Sigma Force Novel – June 26, 2012 – I love Rollins’ books. Great characters and always a fine story [...]
So between 1987 and 1999, I read eleven novels by Loren D. Estleman including 8 novels featuring Amos Walker, and I enjoyed every one of them. Then for whatever reason I lost track of the series, and while I was aware that Estleman was writing more Walker mysteries, I wasn’t picking them up, the series [...]
An interesting tabulation of the number of books read by author (over 10 books) from my Goodreads shelves. Kyle Mills moves up on the list to 8 books with Book No 1 of 2012 – The Immortalists (more to come later) Overall the list surprises me, I wouldn’t have thought that Tapply would have been [...]
