Sunday, January 29, 2017

Worth Dying For, by Lee Child

Title: Worth Dying For
Author:. Lee Child
Borrowed from DC Public Library Audiobook
Started: 1/24/2017
Finished: 1/28/2017

Just blowing through the Jack Reacher series now.  My first in audiobook form, terrible reader but I needed an audiobook. 

Monday, January 23, 2017

61 Hours, by Lee Child

  • Title:  61 Hours
  • Author:  Lee Child
  • Borrowed from Worcester County, MD Public Library (Kindle Edition)
  • Started: 1/18/2017
  • Finished: 1/23/2017
Is Jack Reacher dead?  Well no, because there are a bunch of books following this one.  

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Gone Tomorrow, by Lee Child

  • Title:  Gone Tomorrow
  • Author:  Lee Child
  • Borrowed from DC Public Library (Kindle Edition)
  • Started: 1/13/2017
  • Finished: 1/17/2017
Blowing through the Jack Reacher books, just as dumb, a return to first person narrative. Still enjoying these in my own sick way.

Thursday, January 12, 2017

Nothing to Lose, by Lee Child

  • Title:  Nothing to Lose
  • Author:  Lee Child
  • Borrowed from DC Public Library (Kindle Edition)
  • Started: 1/10/2017
  • Finished: 1/12/2017
Another Jack Reacher novel...

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

The Father Hunt, by Rex Stout

  • Title:  The Father Hunt
  • Author: Rex Stout
  • Borrowed from DC Public Library
  • Started: 1/7/2017
  • Finished: 1/10/2017
The last Nero Wolfe book I had left to read on any of the public library catalogs I have access to (DC, MD, VA).  Enjoyable for a late Wolfe book.

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Bad Luck and Trouble, by Lee Child

  • Title:  Bad Luck and Trouble
  • Author:  Lee Child
  • Borrowed from DC Public Library
  • Started:  1/7/2017
  • Finished: 1/10/2017
Book 11 in the horrible Jack Reacher series that I continue to be unable to resist.  Just as stupid as all of the others, and as usual I couldn't turn away from it.

Saturday, January 7, 2017

The Sellout, by Paul Beatty

Title:. The Sellout
Author: Paul Beatty 
Purchased from Amazon (Kindle edition)
Started: 12/22/2016
Finished: 1/7/2017

Book club book, 2016 Man Booker prize winner.  Really liked this one, saving comments for book club meeting. 


The Invisible Man, by HG Wells

Title: The Invisible Man
Author: HG Wells
Borrowed from DC Public Library (Audiobook)
Started: 1/2/2017
Finished: 1/6/2017

One of the few classics of horror/science fiction I had not read.  Enjoyed it -- funnier than I would have expected.  Need to watch a few of the movies again. 

Also, first book of 2017. Not going to try to best or even match my 2016 book total...