I've been seeing the phrase "start as you mean to go on" flying around a lot as we collectively, tentatively tiptoe into 2019. 2018 was an utter disaster for me, and although 2019 is better so far - touch would, knock on wood, hug wood - I'm afraid of jinxing myself. I can't say that I'm glad I … [Read more]
The More Things Change & The Weird Wild West
The last two-book review I wrote was compare and contrast, because the material in each book related to the other book. This time, not so much: one is non-fiction, and one is fiction, and without performing some mental calisthenics at a level I'm not willing to do right now I don't think I could … [Read more]
Sleeves and stacks
Altered Carbon recently became a Netflix series, so I decided to do it the wrong way round - I watched and then read it. I know there’s more in the series, so I wanted to see if I liked the writing style so that I could explore further. In the world of Altered Carbon, people's memories are stored … [Read more]
Michael Connolly gets his two detectives together
Dark Sacred Night is the first time Ballard and Bosch get together, but I'm not sure if they are greater together. At this point, Bosch is dealing with the ramifications of a previous case, where he met and became close to a drug addict who is haunted by her daughter's death. Ballard is working solo … [Read more]