Sunday, September 30, 2018

A Matter of Honor, by William C Hammond

Title: A Matter of Honor
Author: William C Hammond
Purchase from Amazon.com used print edition
Started: 9/15/2018
Finished: 9/30/2018

A decent US Revolutionary War novel. Not up to the O'Brian standard, but decent enough. 

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Broken Harbor, by Tana French

Title: Broken Harbor
Author: Tana French
Borrowed from Worcester County, MD Public Library Audiobook
Started:. 9/17/2018
Finished: 9/25/2018

This is the best of those Dublin Murder Squad books since the first -- a good read. 

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

The Bad Seed, by William March

  • Title:  The Bad Seed
  • Author:  William March
  • Borrowed:  Borrowed from Hoopla Digital via Worcester County Public Library, MD (Audiobook)
  • Started:  9/8/2018
  • Finished: 9/11/2018
I've seen the movie before, but so long ago I had only vague memories of it.  But the plot was pretty obvious, and that didn't matter.  Still a very disturbing, well written book.

Friday, September 7, 2018

Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans, by Winston Groom

The stuff of history & legend, as the author puts it, and as an American extremely entertaining.  A good companion piece to follow up the two revolutionary era books I read recently, one on Madison and the other 1776.

Sunday, September 2, 2018

Sphere, by Michael Crichton

Title: Sphere
Author: Michael Crichton
Borrowed from Free Library in Ocean City, MD Northside park (paperback)
Started: 9/1/2018
Finished: 9/2/2018

Really terrible novel, easy beach read...