I enjoyed the first book in the Cormoran Strike series quite a bit, so I picked up the second one, The Silkworm, basically as soon as I finished the first. This one was a little disappointing. In The Silkworm, private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin are investigating the disappearance of an author. It quickly turns grisly as they discover he had an unpublished manuscript (titled Bombyx Mori, Latin for silkworm) that contained grotesque caricatures of several people in his life, and that those caricatures were […]
Just one more thing. . .
This is the first book in the Cormoran Strike mystery series, written by J.K. Rowling under a pen name. It’s a fairly standard plot (crusty, genius detective and spunky assistant investigate a suicide that may actually have been a murder), but I really enjoyed it. I’ve always been a fan of J.K. Rowling’s style of writing–flowy, lots of adjectives and humor, makes you feel like you’re right there in the room. While The Cuckoo’s Calling is nowhere near as inventive or delightful as the Harry […]
Just Have to Remember to Embrace the Failure and Rely on the Imagination
I don’t know that I’ve ever sat and read a commencement address before. As usual, this new experience comes to me at the hands of the lovely readers of Cannonball Read (I think? Maybe Goodreads?), who I’m pretty sure read all the things. Well, certainly some one reads everything. Fighting a nasty sinus infection, I decided the inherent pick me up of a commencement address was in order and I luckily had this one ready to go. Perhaps the only thing I am jealous of […]
J.K. Rowling is a goddess
If you’ve never heard of Robert Galbraith before, it’s for a good reason: Galbraith is a pseudonym assumed by J.K. Rowling. I haven’t researched the reason for the pen name, but given the content of this book (and the first one in the series, the excellent The Cuckoo’s Calling), which is much more mature and graphic, it’s not hard to imagine that she’d like to keep this image separate from her Harry Potter books. So, getting into it: Cormoran Strike is a private investigator in London. […]