As You Like It

As I said the other day seeing a play with a bit of Shakespeare put me in the mood to read some Shakespeare. I had this book lying around and decided to read it. It takes me a while to read Shakespeare. This book was only about 100 pages of actual text. The rest of [...]

Echo Park

Once again Mr. Connelly had me. I stayed up until almost midnight last night reading this book. I am reading the Harry Bosch series in reverse right now. This is the second to last book in the series so far. Maybe I can research a little more and pick up a book in the beginning. [...]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix

I have not read a Harry Potter book for almost five years. I read one the summer before I moved to Iowa. I really like the series, but the fifth book was 896 pages. That just seemed very daunting to me. I used to read Stephan King books that were much longer than that, but [...]

Slam

This was one of Nick Hornby’s books that I was hesitant to read. When I went to look for it I could not find it. The man at Barnes and Noble told me that it was in the Young Adults section. Right then I wondered if it was the book for me. I got past [...]

The Overlook

Yesterday I picked up a book my brother gave me a couple of weeks ago and decided to give it a try. I have hear of Michael Connelly, but I have never thought about picking up one of his books. It was free, and seemed like a change from what I had been reading so [...]

The Bourne Identity

This was one book that I had some trouble with. If I would have done the 25 page rule I would never have read this book. For some reason I could not get into it right away. Once I did though it was on. I bet I read over 300 of the 530+ pages in [...]

Playing for Pizza

I was very surprised when I went to the bookstore and found this book. I was actually looking for a different book by Grisham, and saw this one. I love the way that Grisham writes, and the book was about football. How could I go wrong? It turns out that I couldn’t. The book begins [...]

For One More Day

I have read the previous two books by Mitch Albom. They were very good books that made me want to read more. For some reason this book did not stack up to the other two. It was good, but it seemed forced. Maybe because I know Mitch more for being a sports reporter I assumed [...]

A Christmas Carol

I figured with Christmas coming up I should read a couple of Christmas books. I found a copy of the Charles Dickens book ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the library book sale this summer for a quarter. I basically read the entire book today. It is not a long book, but reminds us why we [...]

High Time to Kill

This is the second book that I have read about James Bond this year. This one was by the heir to Fleming, Raymond Benson. This book is much different then most Bond novels. The chase for a precious formula leads Bond to scale a large mountain in Nepal. Most of the novel follows Bond on [...]