The First Harry Bosch Novel
I really hoped that I would like the book series as much as I love the TV series Bosch and Titus Welliver but so far not so much, unfortunately...I will give it another book to decide if I want to keep going with the series.
Cormoran Strike #6
No secret to anyone anymore, this is actually J. K. Rowling, an author so famous that each book she writes is guaranteed to sell millions of copies--no matter what. I imagine this why she was allowed a such a rambling book--a book that is at the minimum 700 pages too long.
In addition of being too long, it is overly complicated, has way to many characters (who each have at the minimum 3 different identies), long streams of private online chatter, with often at least 3 separate channels, and on different social media platforms. A gazillion mentions of Corm's sore leg (by now it is a separate story line), his self destructive behavior which is still written as if it is something that makes him a sympathetic character--including his passive agressive behavior towards yet another GF and another go round with Charlotte. All women must want him "ick"...I will keep reading the series but it is looking doubtful I will make it to the end.
To me--this seemed a 1,000 more pages of the same old same old dressed out around a very big mess of a case--and oh yes, Corm and Robin almost kiss, again.
A good well written page turner--swiftly plotted. A "good" man doing "bad" in the name of doing "right" by his family and then wondering why things don't work out as planned. I enjoyed the read just didn't have much sympathy or empathy for the man character.
According to the back cover: A Black Swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences...in this book NNT shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we--especially the experts--are blind to them.
I found myself giving this book a long slow careful read and not just because of the math. Time and time again I marked passages that reminded me of things that had happened and are happening in Childbirth--so much so that I am pondering the need to take a virtual long slow walk with NNT through these passages--to what end I do not know--but enough so that I am calling my project "The Black Cygnet". Regardless, birth as done by homo sapiens seems to have been slammed by Black Swans since the moment we took the highly improbable notion of standing up on two feet.
This is one of my all time favorite books, it lives on my forever shelf, loved it as a young girl, loved it as a young mother, and still love it as a crazy old cat lady.
It is an innocent tale about the perils of being "different" and an intelligent woman in Puritan New England. There is romance, family, and friendship. If you have never read it I highly suggest that you do.
Another dusty book found lying in one of my many TBR stacks. I have read many of Ms. Willis's books and I have loved every one of them...so glad this one (and it's sequel) stood up to counted as must reads for this category.
I am a fan of Ms. Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy about Thomas Cromwell and a copy of the last installment is waiting on a shelf #TBR. There is no denying that she is a fine author with excellent writing skills. I wanted to enjoy this book much more than I did.
