I've discovered the Cotton Malone series written by Steve Berry. There are 16 books in the collection so far, each of them taking some historical event or mystery or figure and using that as a starting point for a kind of spy / thriller set in contemporary times. So far I've learned interesting things about the Templars and the famed ancient library of Alexandria. Currently reading the story that wraps around Alexander the Great and St Mark, and mysterious disappearances of both bodies. Next on my list is to start the historical fiction of Bernard Cornwall's Saxon Chronicles series, as it involves some of my ancestors. And of course in November the world will halt when Diana Gabaldon's 9th book comes out in her Outlander series.
Well, let's put it this way, the very last place we'd be found is in a library, either reading a book or looking for one. We just aren't that intellectual! Now, give me a magazine from Farm & Ranch or one from Pro-Rodeo and we will both look at it. Only two books I've ever read cover-to-cover was: Moby Dick and Catch Me If You Can We watch a lot of tv and movies we have.
It's about a 16 year old boy that shoots a deputy sheriff in the head while the deputy is passed out drunk on his bed.
Are you liking it? I've never read a John Grisham book, although I've seen movies based on his books. Usually, I prefer the book to the movie, so I don't know why I've never read any of his books.
Yes--I really like it and I'll bet you would too. I have read almost all of his work and haven't read one I didn't like. I read all my books on Kindle downloaded from Amazon.
I enjoyed reading John Grishman's first novel, A Time To Kill that came out in the early 1990s if I remember correctly. A Time for Mercy sounds interesting. Is it the one that came out last year? A friend has all his books so I might go check her collection as I prefer reading full-size hardcover books. I am not much for digital books as it doesn't hold the same excitement as opening a bound book. When I first lived in the mountains I spend many hours on a winter's evening under the light of an Aladdin kerosene lamp sitting by the wood heater/fireplace with a bottle of homemade wine, reading all kinds of bound hardcover books.
I've been a Grisham fan for years. I hope Lon got to finish his book. I just bought Truman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman by David McCollough. It's a Kindle "deal" for today for $3.59 and has excellent reviews. I will start this book as soon as I finish another Pulitzer winner, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliot. Invisible Child is excellent, and provides a lot of insight into the various social program failures in the USA today. It follows a little girl named "Desani" as her family navigates a system that despite plenty of money and good intentions fails to secure positive outcomes for the poor. It has been an eye-opener for me.
I honestly can’t remember the last book I read. I do remember it was science fiction but other than that, no clue. I read a lot but it is just all over the place. I get impatient with a lot of books, too much trivia.