http://www.wordsforwords.com/blogs Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:34:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The author is a columnist of the Akron Beacon Journal, and in 1996 purchased a broken-down house in the Highland Square area of Akron. Flipping through the book while standing at Borders, I decided I had to have it, as I know the neighborhood and I'm one ... http://www.wordsforwords.com/blogs/index.php/archive/all-the-way-home-david-giffels/ So, I made it two weeks and four books since my last Jack Reacher book, but the promise of five hours on a plane pulled this off of the shelf. This is actually the first appearance of Jack (even if a latter novel went back to his ... http://www.wordsforwords.com/blogs/index.php/archive/killing-floor-lee-child/ This is a hard novel to classify and describe, but an easy story to follow and enjoy. Louis and Angel are hired killers, handled by men that act as agents and used as simple tools of destruction. A fellow reaper ends up dead in a bar ... http://www.wordsforwords.com/blogs/index.php/archive/the-reapers-john-connolly/ Hurrah - the author has returned to his pattern of creating "odd" stories out of common situations. This time, the administration of a California high school suddenly decides to become a charter school, removing it from the supervision of the larger district. This is, of course, ... http://www.wordsforwords.com/blogs/index.php/archive/the-academy-bentley-little/ I didn't actually read this book, so I can't count it towards my 2008 quota, BUT having found myself facing nine hours on the road today, I picked up this Reacher book-on-CD to keep me awake. I was so entertained that I drove four hours without realizing ... http://www.wordsforwords.com/blogs/index.php/archive/without-fail-lee-child/ This is the author's second novel featuring August Adams, a rare bookseller, and this time August receives a surprise package from his estranged father which contains a copy (or is it) of the Gospels of Henry the Lion. Of course, there must be an evil group searching for ... http://www.wordsforwords.com/blogs/index.php/archive/house-of-wolves-matt-bronleewe/ Novels are difficult to write - I know, I've tried - and as a result I will usually give an author the benefit of the doubt. This was not a good book, and I had to force myself to the end, hoping all the while that something would ... http://www.wordsforwords.com/blogs/index.php/archive/the-death-dealer-heather-graham/ Book 7 of the series was finished today.  This was the last book that I read the first time through the series, so after this, it's all new.  This book is very different from everything up to this point as we see the story from the point of view of a ... http://www.wordsforwords.com/blogs/index.php/archive/the-pillars-of-creation-terry-goodkind-sword-of-truth/ Book 6 of the Sword of Truth series was finished a few weeks ago but just now getting around to posting the review.  I feel this is one of the better books up to this point in the series.  There is not a lot of the typical sword and sorcery ... http://www.wordsforwords.com/blogs/index.php/archive/faith-of-the-fallen-terry-goodkind-sword-of-truth/ This was my third Jack Reacher novel in as many months, and actually I violated a personal rule by reading the same author back-to-back. I am really enjoying this character, however, and Child's writing style is fascinating, low-keyed but spell-binding. In this tale, Reacher is a witness ... http://www.wordsforwords.com/blogs/index.php/archive/the-hard-way-lee-child/