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Kill Screen by Benjamin Reeves

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1984

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Darktown by Thomas Mullen. A novel about the first eight black ("Negro" in the parlance of the era) police officers to be hired by the city of Atlanta in 1948. Times certainly have changed, thankfully for all of us, but this is a good read.

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206 Bones by Kathy Reichs

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The Long Walk by Richard Bachman AKA Stephen King

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Just finished the Einstein Prophecy. 3.5 outta 5.

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Six Four, Hideo Yokoyama. Smoothly translated from the Japanese. Cold case missing girl from 16 years ago and now the lead detective's own daughter has gone missing. I'm only a few pages in but enjoying it so far.

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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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The War of Art.

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Thrawn by Timothy Zahn...if you are a fan of the original Thrawn trilogy, or just Star Wars in general, I highly recommend it.

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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Lisa See. While I know none of you manly types are sissy tea drinkers, j/k, this novel's backstory treats with pu'er tea from the wild mountains of China where it may be plucked from a 400-year-old tree by Chinese minority tribespeople and sold for $hundreds or $thousands an ounce. The story itself follows a minority girl who has to give up her child for adoption to an American couple due to her tribes mores and traditions. Lisa See is that good a writer that a couple of times the guy next door must have been chopping onions, dang him all to heck.

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A 1964 softcover copy of "The Rise of the West".

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Daughter of the Sword, Steve Bein. Tokyo police detective discovers her destiny as a swordswoman. Lop lop, bad guys are gonna lose body parts.

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American Gods by Neil Gaiman

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Great book. I need to re-read it; it's been a while.

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Otis Rice - Hatfields and McCoys.

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I really like Neil Gaiman and I think this is probably his best book. :2

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I read 4 chapters so far. I don't understand what the short mythology stories at the end of the chapters have to do with anything :confused:

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The Burial Hour, Jeffery Deaver, part of the Lincoln Rhyme series about a quadriplegic forensics investigator.

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That's an excellent read Dan:tu

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Brotherhood Chronicles: The Hunters, by John Flanagan.

Peace of the Lord be with you.

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Finished up "Thrawn", which was fantastic and have started on "Ring" which was the basis for Ringu/The Ring horror films.

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Beartown by Fredrick Blackman who wrote A Man Called Ove that someone (do t make me scroll back haha) recently read. Hockey and crime. Dark but enjoyable.

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That was me.

Now reading Thunderbird by my favorite author Chuck Wendig

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Transcendence. It's about transcendental meditation which I thought was BS but there's a lot of science here that makes things interesting. One thing for sure - TONS of celebrities are into this and attribute this to helping them which is interesting and makes me wary at the same time.

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Oops, I missed the evil autocorrect on my post above--the author of Beartown is Fredrick Backman, not Blackman. Read it, it's deservedly on the bestseller list.

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Edge by Jeffery Deaver.
His most notable novel is The Bone Collector. Made into a movie starring Denzel Washington.

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Recently finished Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. After the Black Sails finale I thought I should reread it considering the last time I read it was grade school.

Working on The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson and have The Great Bridge by David McCullough on deck.

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The Track of Sand, Andrea Camilleri. (Andrea is a man's name in Italian, btw). Inspector Montalbano series is set in a small town in Sicily, there are about a dozen of these. Montalbano is a sharp dresser and a lover of fine foods, who has to deal with Italian bureaucracy and culture to solve his cases. There are smugglers, mafia, swindlers, and a recurring cast of quirky supporting characters including his girlfriend who lives hours away in another city and who he is always arguing with over the phone due to misunderstandings. These are very witty and amusing books and great fun.

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Song of the Lion, Anne Hillerman. Continuing the series begun by her father Tony about Navajo police on the reservation. Insight into the Navajo Way is always a big part of the story.

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B.S. Incorporated

It is supposed to be like The Office and Office Space.

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The Blade Itself, Joe Abercrombie. I think it was Porchdweller who posted this before. Thanks, good read.

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I'm glad you like it! To be honest, I only picked it up on the recommendation of some friends who - like me - are not-so-patiently waiting for GRRM to get off his rear and finish The Winds of Winter. It didn't take long to draw me in and I finished it plus the two sequels quite quickly. Abercrombie does "gray" characters extremely well.

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I ordered the sequel Before They Are Hanged from the library today.

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Preacher animated graphic novel. Finished Vol 1 and now onto 2. Basically these are just the comic books collected into a graphic novel with 12 comics per book.

I'm a comic geek as well although been out of them for many years and while away, they went up to $3.99 a book!

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Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

I am about 75% finished and I am really enjoying the book.

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Infinity Born by Douglas E. Richards

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Plrknib by Alex Bernstein.

This takes place in the comedy clubs of Cincinnati in the 80's

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So Dan, do you get paid for all your links to Amazon?
Just wondering.

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I wish. I'm just trying to make it easier for people to read about the book if they are interested.

I wish other people would post links so that I can more easily add the books to my Amazon wish list

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Please let me know how it is. I have it on my Amazon wish list.

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Will do. Have you read the other books in the Bob Lee Swagger Series?

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I've read the whole Swagger series and have enjoyed them. I'm impressed that the author either is a shooter or at least has done the research to get the details on the weaponry correct, which is more rare than it should be.

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I'm halfway through Into The Water, the second novel by Paula Hawkins who wrote the majorly popular The Girl On The Train. The premise is the "difficult women" who have drowned in the river running beside a small English town over the last couple hundred years; now two women recently have drowned, one a suicide and then the next perhaps a murder. The story is intruiging and the writing is excellent but stylistically it's a bit tiring: every chapter is one of the ten characters' inner thoughts and point of view that may clash with another's, and I have to keep thinking, who's this person, how do they relate? Overall very good though, and I haven't yet figured out "who dunnit" or even if anything actually was "dun".

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I haven't. I have Point of Impact, but haven't started it yet

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If you like the character, I highly recommend reading all in the series. There is also a three book series about his father, Earl Swagger. One is set in 1953 Havana.

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No Angel by Jay Dobyns

This is the story of the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle gang.