On Stranger Tides, by Tim Powers

Title: On Stranger Tides

Author: Tim Powers

Borrowed from Worcester MD Public Library Audiobook

Started: 9/26/2017

Finished: 9/30/2017

Enjoyable book, I don't love fantasy but I don't hate it either.  This was overall a good read. 

Brown Dog - Novellas, by Jim Harrison

Title; Brown Dog - Novellas

Author: Jim Harrison

Borrowed from DC Public Library Audiobook

Started: 9/16/2017

Finished; 9/25/2017

The first story in this long collection (close to 20 hours of audiobook) was fantastic.   The stories following got progressively worse, but all were entertaining.  

I'd never heard of the Brown Dog character before, very interesting and enjoyable.  

Stranger from Tonto, by Zane Grey

Title: Stranger from Tonto

Author: Zane Grey

Borrowed from take one leave one Library in Ocean City MD print edition

Started: 8/8/2017

Finished: 9/23/2017

Another Zane Grey Western, not great.  Left it at the beach so I only read from it periodically, which is why it took so long to finish.  

The Couple Next Door, Shari Lapena

Title: The Couple Next Door

Author: Shari Lapena

Borrowed from Little Library in DC, Print Edition

Started: 9/16/2017

Finished: 9/17/2017

Wow, what a terrible book. One of the worst I've ever read.  

A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles

Title: A Gentleman in Moscow

Author: Amor Towles

Purchased from Amazon Kindle Edition

Started: 8/25/2017

Finished: 9/16/2017

Book club book so I'll save the review for the discussion. Overall liked but did not love it.  

Other Kingdoms, by Richard Matheson

• Title:  Other Kingdoms
  
• Author:  Richard Matheson
  
• Borrowed from Worcester, MD Public Library (Audiobook)
  
• Started: 9/13/2017
  
• Finished: 9/15/2017
  

This was not the book I expected, but I really enjoyed it.  A sweet (if that's the right word) fantasy novel.  I've always liked Matheson, loved "I am Legend" and "Hell House".

Part of what made this novel for me was the fantastic narration of Bronson Pinchot.  It took me a while to figure out why I knew that name, but as a child of the 80's it then hit me, "Perfect Strangers."  Anyway, he read this book exceptionally.  So much so, that I will seek out books he's narrated simply because he is reading them.

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Title:  The Scarlet Letter
  
• Author:  Nathaniel Hawthorn
  
• Borrowed from HooplaDigital via Worcester MD Public Library, Audiobook
  
• Started: 9/62017
  
• Finished: 9/13/2017
  

I continue to play catch up books that should have been required in High School (whom am I kidding, I'd have only read the Cliff Notes version anyway) or college (I did get a degree in literature).  Yet somehow I never read or was assigned The Scarlet Letter.

I liked it, it was different from what I had imagined.  I didn't love it, but probably would have liked it more if I'd read it as part of a discussion group.

Cuba Libre, by Elmore Leonard

Title: Cuba Libre

Author: Elmore Leonard

Borrowed via HooplaDigital via Worcester MD Public Library Audiobook

Started: 8/29/2017

Finished: 9/5/2017

Enjoyed this one, solid Elmore Leonard novel. 

HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbor, by Nicholas Monsarrat

• Title:  HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbor
  
• Author:  Nicholas Monsarrat
  
• Borrowed from Hoopla Digital via Worcester County (MD) Public Library
  
• Started: 8/20/2017
  
• Finished: 8/23/2017
  

This is actually a collection of three short stories, but I only read the first, and it was as good as expected.  I really loved Monsarrat's "The Cruel Sea" and HMS Marlborough was fantastic.

A Western Duo -- A Man Called Trent, and The Rider of Lost Creek, by Louis L'Amour

• Title: A Western Duo -- A Man Called Trent, and The Rider of Lost Creek
  
• Author: Louis L'Amour
  
• Borrowed from Hoopla Digital via Worcester County (MD) Public Library
  
• Started:  8/24/2017
  
• Finished:  8/28/2017
  

A couple of Lance Kilkenny stories, reasonably enjoyable westerns.