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The Signal
by Ron Carlson
read 5/29/11
Story about a guy fly fishing with his ex-wife in Wyoming. Gets into the back story about how they met and why they broke up, inter mixed with some other story teasers. The story was ok... had trouble figuring out where it was going at times. The imagery was cool as they hike through the wilderness.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
A Charmed Life (6)
A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle
By Liza Campbell
Read 5/15/11
When she was a young girl her Grandfather died and her father inherited a title and a Cawdor castle in Scotland as his birthright. So the family moves to the castle and dad proceeds to spend lavish amounts of money and cars and parties, he can be extremely mean to his wife and family. Makes a series of bad business decisions while drinking more and more. Eventually the wife leaves and he remarries, after he dies the estate becomes a mess and more facts about his life come to light.
Enjoyable read, but heavy on British history....
By Liza Campbell
Read 5/15/11
When she was a young girl her Grandfather died and her father inherited a title and a Cawdor castle in Scotland as his birthright. So the family moves to the castle and dad proceeds to spend lavish amounts of money and cars and parties, he can be extremely mean to his wife and family. Makes a series of bad business decisions while drinking more and more. Eventually the wife leaves and he remarries, after he dies the estate becomes a mess and more facts about his life come to light.
Enjoyable read, but heavy on British history....
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Street Players (5)
Street Players
Donald Goines
Read May 8, 2011
Two books in 2 days :) According to the cover Donald Goins is the greatest ghetto writer that ever lived. This is a tale of several pimps in Detroit focusing on Earl and his struggles with his girls, his ups and down, fortune and failure.
Interesting in the late 60's genere.
Donald Goines
Read May 8, 2011
Two books in 2 days :) According to the cover Donald Goins is the greatest ghetto writer that ever lived. This is a tale of several pimps in Detroit focusing on Earl and his struggles with his girls, his ups and down, fortune and failure.
Interesting in the late 60's genere.
Three Stations (4)
Three Stations
Martin Cruz Smith
Read May 7, 2011
I love the Arkady Renko novels, I read my first on in 1981 in High School and have enjoyed each one since. This is the latest in the series, Renko still in Moscow, still in trouble with his bosses... and still trying to solve crimes that nobody wants him to look into. This book spends a lot of time with Zhenya the boy who Renko has met in previous books. He is living at Kosomol Square a notorious railway station know locally as Three Stations, he meets a young girl who has had her baby stolen and is trying to help her while Renko investigates an OD of a prostitute.
Another excellent book, I read it in a day and wished it would not end so soon!
Martin Cruz Smith
Read May 7, 2011
I love the Arkady Renko novels, I read my first on in 1981 in High School and have enjoyed each one since. This is the latest in the series, Renko still in Moscow, still in trouble with his bosses... and still trying to solve crimes that nobody wants him to look into. This book spends a lot of time with Zhenya the boy who Renko has met in previous books. He is living at Kosomol Square a notorious railway station know locally as Three Stations, he meets a young girl who has had her baby stolen and is trying to help her while Renko investigates an OD of a prostitute.
Another excellent book, I read it in a day and wished it would not end so soon!
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