Kevin's Watch

Just finished "The Savage Nation" by Michael Savage. It was a riot I tells you!

Nice counterballance for Stupid White Men.

Remnant sale at Powell Books this week. I stopped in after the dentist & got 4 books. The irresistible one was THE RAG & BONE SHOP, about Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and a girl. So now I have 2 paper books and an ebook (sci fi romance) going at once.

Just finished Cloud Atlas by Mitchell. I can't praise this book highly enough. Mitchell aims for the stars (or clouds?!) with this novel, and in almost every way he has succeeded. Like most brilliant novels, its daunting at first. There are 6 different stories interlocking, each set in a different time with an appropriate prose style. Challenging reading.

This book will be a classic. Run out and grab a copy, and start reading now!

Phew. Ok, now I'm reading Zodiac by Stephenson.

Now I'm reading Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Definitely a "chick-lit" book (did she start the genre?), but looking past that I'm enjoying it immensely. Wit, charm, manners and eloquence.

Up to book five, Grail, of Stephen R. Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle. Interesting take on the legends of King Arthur. I'm looking forward to beginning his Avalon, not officially a part of the series, but recommended as the final book to be read by Lawhead readers.

Reading Robert Ardrey's The Hunting Hypothesis. Truly excellent, an anthropological treatise on the role of hunting in the evolution of man.

I forgot the book at home today, otherwise there would be quotes sprinkled across the Watch.

Kins, don't know if you've read this, (or if you visist the Library, but it's very good, if a touch dated. Would love to see an updated edition...fascinating nonetheless.

--A

HIGH LONESOME by Louis L'Amour, a pleasant easy book while I try to get two reviews written.

Icebound by Dean Koontz
(Started Monday and now at the halfway mark - p. 212)
Kind of a different style for Koontz; no horror, no monsters or supernatural stuff.
Just suspenseful.
More of a Tom Clancy story to me.

Just finished reading
"The Art of mending" by Margaret Berg
for our library book club this month.
Ugh...
I do not recommend this book at all...
Usually when I read a book, I hate for it to end. I become so attached that it is like losing a dear friend when I come to the last page.
This book was so terrible that I read it all in one day, and could not wait until it was over.

Now I am reading "1776" by David McCullough.
He is a one of my favorite authors, ever.
I loved his biography of John Adams and can not praise it enough.

Julie

A reread of Penman's THE SUNNE IN SPLENDOUR about the fifteenth century English Wars of the Roses.

I'm glad I'm rereading it. Many years ago, I didn't appreciate it enough the first time around.

Your sig tells it all AV!!!!

just finished Midnight Tides. needs Bonehunters.

Finished up the short story anthology I've been slowly reading, finished up Gabaldan's Outlander.

I am now trying to make up my mind which of two books that a friend passed on to me I should read first. One is a mystery book set in ancient Rome, and the other is a mystery book set in Japan under the Shoguns. Both look pretty interesting.

Authors, Duchess? I know several of the Roman mystery series. And if the Japanese one is by I.J. Parker, I recommend it sight unseen.

"Pillars of the Earth" By Ken Follet.

Doesn't seem to promissing....

Deadhouse Gates by Stephen Erikson. I am three qarters of the way through and then I have Going Postal by Terry Pratchet, and The Man who Risked his Partner and The Man who Tried to Get Away waiting on my dresser. Yay me.

Prebe wrote:"Pillars of the Earth" By Ken Follet.

Doesn't seem to promissing....

No No No. It's a great book, if you like that sort of epic style, covering generations etc. Read it quite a few times. Most enjoyable for historical fiction.

--A

Thanks a lot Av. I'll stick with it then. I trust your judgement

If you like the genre, you'll enjoy it.

--A

Dragonlily wrote:Authors, Duchess? I know several of the Roman mystery series. And if the Japanese one is by I.J. Parker, I recommend it sight unseen.

The book set in ancient Rome is called A Murder on the Appian Way and is written by Steven Saylor. The two books set in Shogunate Japan anre called The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria and Black Lotus and are written by Laura Joh Rowland.