I don’t know how Ken Follett does it. All of his books are so very long and dense and filled with story and history and information and characters and other stuff I can’t think of. He’s exhausting. And exhaustive. I wonder what his family is like. I mean, really. What would dinner conversation be like with this guy? He knows everything about medieval Europe and cathedral building, and now he’s got most of Western Civ covered with the Century Trilogy. Plus he writes all those […]
The First Inspector Rutledge
In Warwickshire, Colonel Harris was out for a horseback ride, when he was shot and killed. His “last coherent thought was anger. Savage, wild, black fury ripped through him in one stark instant of realization before oblivion swept it all away. . . .” His reaction to the shotgun blast made him dig his spurs into his horse’s flanks. In London, a guy named Bowles finds out some dirt on Ian Rutledge. He wants to use it, but he doesn’t know how just yet. The […]
Doing this sorta out of order
Charles Todd is actually two people: the actual Charles Todd, and his mom Caroline. (Note to self: remind my son to write stories with me when he grows up). Their big character is Inspector Ian Rutledge, a copper who is suffering from PTSD (from WWI), who hears the voice of a soldier he was forced to kill in his head. The voice is in his head, not the soldier. Once again, Amazon had a Kindle deal on this particular book, so I picked up on […]
I haven’t seen the show yet
When I got this book, I didn’t realize that it was connected with the BBC America show (that I have taped and not yet watched), I just like Bernard Cornwell books. Give me some good historical fiction, and I’m pretty happy. Osbert is the second son of Uhtred, a Northumbrian earl. Well, he’s the second son until he’s the first son when his older brother is murdered by invading Danes. So then Osbert becomes Uhtred, which I guess is how that worked back then. Denmark […]
The First Jackson Brodie story
Kate Atkinson published a new book this year, A God in Ruins. The world was raving about it, and about her earlier works, and I was embarrassed that I hadn’t heard of her. I got curious, did a little research, and found somewhere that Atkinson is one of Stephen King’s favorite authors. He particularly recommended the Jackson Brodie books. I decided I wanted to read all of her books, and figured I’d best start with the first one. Case one: a little girl goes missing […]
The Saga Continues
The kid and I took a little break from the Star Wars books for a bit, but we’re back now. At least we’re into the good movies portion of the series. Like all the other books, this one takes most of the dialogue from the movie verbatim, and also fills in some of the subtext gaps. Interestingly, this particular book adds subtext that is clearly trying to retcon episodes 1 through 3. It was a valiant effort, and my son didn’t notice (he doesn’t know […]
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