It is 2021 already and my 60th birthday is just gone by already. Still reading, exercising and playing guitar while I take a well deserved four week break from work!! These two latest books are detectives that M&D finished and gave to me. They were good,
Finished Raven Black in December. Its a detective novel based in the Shetlands of all places. I believe there is a new TV series on it too. The author has written other books with the same characters and this is the first one. It was a good read, but would not go out to buy it. The twist at the end I did not figure out, so that was a good thing.
After that read another Jack Reacher book, which was really good and was through it in a week. It was 'Gone Tomorrow', about a woman who killed herself on the NY subway and the events that followed as Reacher witnessed it. Very gory, but the story and the twist was realistic and I never guessed it!! Next one is '61 Hours' which Michelle's Dad has already lent to me. After that I read Lemmy autobiography 'White Line Fever'. Plenty of rock n rollocking. He had an amazing life and plenty of women, but died alone. Always enjoy rock autobiographies! The racier the better!!
'Corpus' was the other mystery novel from the parents. The character in this was not a detective but a professor at Cambridge and it was set in 1936 so was full of Nazi intrigue of the time. Definitely had the feel of the 1930s and the story was good, though you could figure out easily who did what. Had the impression that the author was not trying to be clever about it on purpose. No clever twist at the endt though the characters were good. There are other novels in the series, but probably will not bother. Enjoyable read and would recommend both this and the Shetland one to others. Will be giving these away to friends whenever I manage to see any!!
One book I did buy on a recommendation that was so dense to read as over 1,200 pages in very small print was 'Quicksilver' by Neal Stephenson. Was told it was a fantasy book, but appears to be a historical fiction novel. Its three books in one and really should have figured that out and only bought the first one. The print was so small and it started in the 16th century and then jumped to US year of independence with the same character and he seemed not to age!! There must have been 70 years between two scenes in the story in the first 80 pages!! If it was time travel that would have been interesting, but was more of a history text book as it was looking at real events. Gave it a go, but had to give it up and left it at a charity shop. Luckily it was a second hand book from Amazon. Happy to pass it on to someone who might enjoy it if they have good vision!! So I am not recommending the Quicksilver: Baroque Cycle.
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