So you know I have following the activities surrounding the recent collapse of the building in Bangladesh. So this morning when I opened an old Circus magazine dated May 1972 I saw an article about Joan Baez, I started reading it. The article talks about her hesitance to write songs but how she over came [...]
So like I wrote earlier, it’s been over twelve years since I visited the streets and neighborhoods of Detroit with Loren D. Estleman‘s PI Amos Walker. But last week I decided to re-pickup the series within Book 20 of the series, and Book 20, The Left Handed Dollar became Book 9 for 2o12. In this [...]
Let’s see what do the following have in common: Mormonism, Chief Canasatego,Thomas Jefferson, the Super-Kamiokande detector, nontechnology,the Anasazi, the children of Lehi, Iceland and the Laki eruption and Merriweather Lewis! Don’t know, how about if I add the Sigma Force, still don’t know. Well, they all make an appearance in Book number 37 of 2011 [...]
Mother Jones: Kevin Drum: Republicans Don’t Care About the Deficit As Drum and Krugman point out the Republicans don’t care squat about the deficit and why should they they created most of it and since it makes government look bad and they hate government why is it a bad thing! Book 36 for the year [...]
So the first Maggie O’Dell book by Alex Kava A Perfect Evil ($3.42 for the Kindle edition, well worth it!) was terrific, Book 35 for 2011 Hotwire is the 9th in the series, and the series is still going strong! Maggie an FBI profiler has been involved in cases that have included, the Ebola virus, [...]
From the first John Hart book I read Down River I was a fan and so are lots of others. Hart is the only author in history to win the best novel Edgar Award for consecutive novels. (Down River and The Last Child) He has also won the Barry Award and England’s Steel Dagger Award [...]
So a couple of years ago after reading Paul Levine‘s book Illegal I sent him a message on Facebook and told him that I liked the book but sill missed Jake Lassiter! He emailed me back and told me that his next book was going to be a Lassiter novel. Well, that book, appropriately named Lassiter [...]
So the right sidebar says that I am currently reading Lassiter by PaulLevine, which I was, but then I started Preston & Childs‘ Still Life with Crows, and well Book 32 for 2011 is Still Life with Crows. Still Life with Crows is the fourth book in the Pendergrast series. Now I read the first [...]
So you know I like books that combine action with historical information, so in that respect I loved Book 31 of the year Steve Berry‘s latest The Jefferson Key. In the book Steve Berry combines the attempted assassination of the current president to the failed attempt on the life of Andrew Jackson. Along the way Berry [...]
So you know I love books that take mw to places I’ll never see or teach me things I didn’t know and Book 30 of 2011 Northwest Angle is one of them. Author William Kent Krueger set this book the 11th in the Cork O’Connor series in the area of Minnesota known as the Northwest Angle. [...]
