Good to see you.The Fireman by Joe Hill
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Hey you! Good to see you! 
...would y'all cut it with the attempted chit-chat!...girl's tryin' to read!......
On the last 10 pages or so of Miss Peregrine's Home for Boring... er Peculiar Children. Says a lot about a book when you are at the end of a story that you know continues on for 2 more books, the protagonist and cohorts are in the grip of danger and you just don't care. Not a lick. You can't wait to finish it so you can never look at it again. Never. As in... never.
...now see, I enjoyed the series...was it great?....hell no, but I did get some enjoyment from it....kinda like store bought pizza, rather than restaurant style....
I do.And my own chainsaw.
I'm not surprised SK hired someone who listed abilities to operate chainsaws and wood chippers as special skills on their resume.
LOL I'm getting a mental image of him reading that resume, nodding and saying hmmm...girl's got skillz, don't let this one get away.I'm not surprised SK hired someone who listed abilities to operate chainsaws and wood chippers as special skills on their resume.
I really tried to like it. As I've said before, I love this genre and I thought it would be a natural fit. I found myself getting frustrated at the forced narrative due to the author having to work in the photographs, plus his inability to make me care for any character at all. Not one of them had any depth in my opinion. This all added up to me having a negative experience in reading this book. Different strokes for different folks; that's what keeps the world spinning.
Just finished a very predictable, but otherwise not bad book called "After Anna" by Alex Lake.
Now reading "Guilty Wives" byJames Patterson with David Ellis. I stopped reading Patterson many years ago, but picked this one up at the gym for an easy read before I reread Mercedes and FK in preparation for EOW.
Now reading "Guilty Wives" by
....with that maniacal grin through the thatch of beard at the time.....
Finished The Girl Who Came Back. Focus was an issue--it felt like a first draft, like the author hadn't quite decided what the story was supposed to be about. Not terrible, just...meandering. Now I'll be hitting another review book--either Terry McMillan's newest (I still have a brand new HB up for grabs--they sent me 2, and I don't need both) or a book called A Certain Age. Both reviews are due on the 7th. And LilMan and I are still reading TDoTT!
The Girl With All The Gifts. Thanks for the rec, Kurben ! I'm enjoying it very much!
I started Joy Hill's The Fireman over the weekend and boy is it a page turner! I feared I had lost the will to read after the debacle that was Miss Peregrine's Snoozefest for Affected Bores, but The Fireman got me right back in the saddle, so to speak. It is very well written and the storytelling is fluid and riveting. I am about a 1/4 of the way through and one thing I love so far is that it does not jump around from person to person or back and forth in time. It is written in third person and focuses on the story through the eyes of one character.
I do.
I am thoroughly enjoying and paging quickly through The Last Mile by David Baldacci; this is the second in his Amos Decker series and it is as wonderful as the first. Yesterday at the B&N, 'ah Sunday afternoons in the book store, 'tis Heaven'; I bought How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, MD.
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