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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Books at the two week mark...

I've been reading, in between bouts of soccer practice, sadness, baths,  and baseball.  Hallelujah for the printed word. Hallelujah.... Sing it ...

Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, by Nina MacLaughlin....a mild mannered newspaper reporter finds herself unfulfilled with the day to day Internet connections... "...there is no other place I can think of where one can consume so much and absorb so little..." That sentence so resonated with me I had to underline it with the nearest thing, and this pretty little hardback book, got the pink crayon treatment.  She leaves her job, and gets a job as an assistant to a female journeyman carpenter.   The book is easy and delightful to read, and Nina has no problem admitting she knows little more than how to lug. AND, the work is interspersed with anecdotal facts, literary references, the hammer museum in Haines, Alaska, and the origins of the "journeyman" title.  I'm not going to tell you...

its lovely. and good to know that such a radical shift can be done, and can work out. and so, so attractive to think about trading up to a trade... :)



Dawn of the Dragons by James A. Owen... this particular book contains two novels, so i was well and satisfied for quite a bit of time... and I must confess, I loved this, and can't wait to read it again when I've forgotten about it... It has, wait for it, dragons... and then?  some of my most beloved authors and character and myths and so so many things ... As I learned more about characters, and their roles in history or myth or literature, I would literally giggle as the coincidences unfolded.. If I weren't so impatient, I would have gone back multiple times to re-read storylines, as I discovered that a character was really, say, Pan, not Peter, or maybe Peter, or that they were Perseus. . . I just LOVED it.  I hope there are more novels out there in the series (there ARE!) but I have a large stack still to work through, and I MUST STRUGGLE ON...

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the cuckoo's calling by Robert Galbraith.

If you are a dork, you know that Robert Galbraith is really J.K. Rowling.  I have no idea how or why people use multiple pen names, but such is as it is. Its completely unconnected to Harry.  COMPLETELY.  Have no expectations of that.  A straight-up mystery, which a detective named Cormoran Strike, which is a fair beginning.
Its a good mystery, fifties style, if you like them, with the incident happening initially and the rest of the novel spent unraveling the truth behind it, and then the detective exposing the truth only he could see at the end.  I had a hard time getting through it, as my attention is jumpy at this point, but I would still recommend it, particularly if you like mystery without gratuitous sex or violence.  rock it.

1 comments:

Noel said...

Haven't been here for a long while and mostly surfed your pics but I'm bored with my own reading taste, so I read your reviews. Thanks. I think I'm going to try Hammerhead. Auntie Oel is in a rut and a radical change could do her good. I hope your doing ok. With all the enormous changes in your life, it must be a wild ride. You sound good, like your happy to be growing again even with the tears. Hugs