Scavenger David Morrell

Last night I finished reading another good book. It is David Morrell’s “Scavenger.” The book came on the market in March and I was waiting for it come out in paperback but after reading the inside corner again I bought the book and couldn’t put it down. Scavenger builds on many of the happening of his previous novel, “Creepers” and continues where it left off. I like David Morrell as he is an author with the ability to say and express a great many things with few words. He relies on your imagination to flush out the details. The book contains reference to GPS, geocaching and letter-boxing which I thought were cool. Early on in the book I figured out the central theme and enjoyed watching the way he has the characters perform their roles. It was a good book and I recommend it highly.

A relief...

It is a big relief. I finished the final Harry Potter book late today. It was a hard and challenging book to read as I found it so dark. I could feel the book pulling down which was kind of weird. I'm not sure if I would want my kids to read the book until they would be a little older.

Books - The Assault of Reason

In the reading department this has been a good summer for me. I started off by discovering the author, CJ Box. After reading his most recent book I got hooked and borrowed all his other books from the library and read them. I next discovered Barry Eisler's John Rain series of books. I bought his most recent books and again borrowed all of his other books from the library. For both of these authors, I could start reading one of there books and have it finished a couple of days later. George Tenet's book, "At the Center of the Storm" is a book that is taking longer to read that I would have thought. I read a chapter and then think and reflect on what he says about his days working for the CIA. Last night, I finished my favorite book of the summer, Al Gore's, "The Assault of Reason." This is a book that I'll most likely read a more couple of times in the future. I'll quote from the inside jacket of the book, "A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism and blind faith has combined with the degradation of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason."

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

On Friday, at the stroke of midnight I and a lot of other Harry Potter fans will have there chance to read the final Harry Potter book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” Once again, I’ll stay up until midnight and go to the bookstore and watch the clock move ever close to the magic hour. The bookstore has WiFi so I can surf and try to score a couple of more babble points while waiting for the book to become available. At that point, I will constrain myself to read only a couple of pages per sitting as I fear that if I don’t, the book will be read over the course of the weekend. There are already leaked copies of the book available for viewing on the web. Did I take a look? Yes, I only looked at the table of contents which doesn’t reveal much. I’m comfortable waiting to until Friday midnight to experience the final book as what is a couple of extra days after waiting a couple of years.

Summer reading...

One of the newspapers I read daily, the WSJ, recently had a book review of good books for summer reading. While in Montreal, I bought one of the books off the list, C.J.Box,Free Fire. I enjoyed reading the book over a couple of days and decided to read the rest of the Joe Pickett series. I headed over to local library web site and requested copies of his other books, Out of Range, Trophy Hunt, Savage Run , Open Season and Winter Kill. Over the last little while, I have read all of these books. I headed back to the book review and bought the next book in the list, Requiem for an assassin by Barry Eisler. Yesterday, I requested from the library all of Barry's other John Rain books and will read his other five books. One thing I liked about his book is that he goes into great details about John Rain's tradecraft such as his Spyderco knives, Surefire flashlights and Alon bulletproof windows. There is one other book that I'm reading analyically and clinicially, is George Tenet's , At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA. The book is taking longer to read that I thought as I read a chapter then think about what he says for a couple of hours before reading the next chapter. There is one more book on the book review list that I want to read, but it won't be published for another month. I mostly likely finish the summer off by reading the much sought after Harry Potter, final volumer.