Things that are dangerous for Maggie to decide:
"Oh, since I have this $100 bill that I need to break, I'll just let myself buy a book when I get to the airport at that Boarders in the terminal, and they'll give me change and I'll have something to read..."
Three books later, I dove into Gone Baby, Gone while sitting and waiting for the plane to Minneapolis to take off. Since I got there super early, and since the plane was delayed, and since I read rather quickly, and since this book is addictive to the point that I am not sure I so much as looked up more than once an hour or so while reading it, I was done with the whole thing with enough time to take a nap before the wheels touched down in Minnesota. Allow me to say that there is not better way to spend a snowy day trapped in an airport/on a plane than with a good thriller like this one.
And a good thriller it is. I have not seen the movie, although I will now be adding it to my netflix, but I can see how an amazing movie could come out of this book. (I should point out, that the bar's pretty high, since Lehane is also responsible for the book that is the basis for one of my favorite movies, Mystic River.)
Anyway, the plot is fast paced without being overwhelming or making the action hard to follow. The characters are reasonably complex and realistically, likably, flawed. There are true villians, and sort of villians, and people who do bad things for good reasons, and I truly didn't have it figured out before the end.
I'm not saying that I would classify this as a great acheivement in literature. It's not. I don't think that it aspires to be. What it does, though, it does well. And there is something to be said for airport the day before the interview ficton. This one makes you think just enough to keep you very busy, but not enough to make you very tired.
Want to see what else I've been reading, or track just how much a bookworm I am:
The 2008 Booklist and Tally
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
The 2008 Booklist
Welcome to 2008. I'm going to do better this year. I know I've never said anything like that before. ;-)
This year, there will be a slight change in the nature of my reading. Andrew gave me a Sony Digital Book for Christmas (Best Present Ever!) so while I will be doing some of my reading in the traditional way, I will also be reading the classics (100 free books!) digitally. I'll be blogging those the same way as other books, but I will note which ones are digital and which are the more traditional page turning sort.
I'm also keeping a tally, because I think that it will be interesting, and because maybe if I have the motivation of keeping an accurate count it'll get me to do this blogging thing with slightly greater regularity.
With that:
2008 Paper Books Read: 16
2008 Digital Books Read: 3
2008 Total Books Read: 19
January 9, 2008
The Rebels of Ireland
By Edward Rutherfurd
863 pages
January 11, 2008
Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austin
Sony Digital Book
Good Dog, Stay
By Anna Quindlen
82 pages
January 17, 2008
Gone Baby, Gone
By Dennis Lehane
443 pages.
January 22, 2008
The Green Mile:
The Complete Serial Novel
By Stephen King
544 pages
February 9, 2007
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Perfection
by Atul Gawande
257 pages
February 17, 2007
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
846 pages
February 18, 2007
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
by Pauline Chen
222 pages
The Monsters of Templeton
by Lauren Groff
357 pages
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
Sony Digital Book
March 20, 2008
The House of God
by Samuel Shem
397 pages
March 23, 2008
A Drink Before the War
by Dennis Lehane
277 pages
March 25, 2008
Darkness, Take My Hand
by Dennis Lehane
355 pages
This year, there will be a slight change in the nature of my reading. Andrew gave me a Sony Digital Book for Christmas (Best Present Ever!) so while I will be doing some of my reading in the traditional way, I will also be reading the classics (100 free books!) digitally. I'll be blogging those the same way as other books, but I will note which ones are digital and which are the more traditional page turning sort.
I'm also keeping a tally, because I think that it will be interesting, and because maybe if I have the motivation of keeping an accurate count it'll get me to do this blogging thing with slightly greater regularity.
With that:
2008 Paper Books Read: 16
2008 Digital Books Read: 3
2008 Total Books Read: 19
January 9, 2008
The Rebels of Ireland
By Edward Rutherfurd
863 pages
January 11, 2008
Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austin
Sony Digital Book
January 13, 2007
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
By Stephen King
272 pages
Good Dog, Stay
By Anna Quindlen
82 pages
January 17, 2008
Gone Baby, Gone
By Dennis Lehane
443 pages.
January 22, 2008
The Green Mile:
The Complete Serial Novel
By Stephen King
544 pages
February 9, 2007
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Perfection
by Atul Gawande
257 pages
February 17, 2007
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
846 pages
February 18, 2007
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
by Pauline Chen
222 pages
The Monsters of Templeton
by Lauren Groff
357 pages
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
Sony Digital Book
March 20, 2008
The House of God
by Samuel Shem
397 pages
March 23, 2008
A Drink Before the War
by Dennis Lehane
277 pages
March 25, 2008
Darkness, Take My Hand
by Dennis Lehane
355 pages
March 26, 2008
Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
369 pages
March 28, 2008
Sacred
by Dennis Lehane
358 pages
March 30, 2008
Prayers for Rain
by Dennis Lehane
375 pages
March 31, 2008
1st To Die
by James Patterson
462 pages
April 1, 2008
2nd Chance
by James Patterson (with Andrew Gross)
Sony eDigital Book
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