August
2012.........12 books this month
Richard
Francis – Taking Apart The Poco Poco
Dave
Zeltserman – Outsourced
Tony Black –
RIP Robbie Silva
Jack Danne/Jeanne
Van Damme ed. – In The Field Of Fire
David Craig –
Bolthole
William
Caunitz – One Police Plaza
Eric Garcia –
Anonymous Rex
Harlan Coben
– Shelter
Jeff Connor –
Pointless
Philip
Wilding – Cross Country Murder Song
Stephen
Wright – Going Native
Anthony
Bourdain – Bobby Gold
Stephen
Wright and Philip Wilding are in contention for the supreme accolade – namely the
author of least enjoyable book ever in the history of books since the year dot.
Also vying for the title, Kerouac - Lonesome
Traveller, probably anything Dean Koontz has written in the past 15 years,
Leonie Swann – Three Bags Full.
A close call – probably Going Native will
shade it....slightly less painful reading this than boiling my head in a pot on
the stove, but it was a close run thing.
Garcia wasn’t
great – not a patch on Matchstick Men.
Caunitz – ok,
but not as good as I was hoping for.
Richard
Francis – won’t be going back there, thank you.
Field Of Fire
– Nam stories with a “fantasy” spin – as with any story collection, some a lot
better than others.
Tony Black’s
novella just didn’t rock me the way I had hoped for.
Jeff Connor’s
account of a year following Scotland’s worst football team was interesting enough.
Keep the faith – East Stirlingshire fans!
Bolthole was
an early Bill James thriller written under an alias, bit better than average in
my opinion.
Coben’s Shelter
– I think is a YA targeted book that this MA (middle-aged) reader enjoyed.
Book of the
month – Bobby Gold........certainly glistened for me!
Blurb.........
Bobby Gold is a lovable
criminal. After nearly ten years in prison, he's no sooner out than he's back
to work breaking bones for tough guys. His turf: the club scene and restaurant
business. It's not that he enjoys the job-Bobby has real heart-but he's good at
it, and a guy has to make a living. Things change when he meets Nikki, the cook
at a club most definitely not in his territory. Smitten, he can't stay away.
Bobby Gold has known trouble before, but with Nikki the sauté bitch in his
life, things take a turn for life or death.
A fast, furious, pitch-perfect story of food, sex, crime, and mayhem, The Bobby Gold Stories is Bourdain at his best
A fast, furious, pitch-perfect story of food, sex, crime, and mayhem, The Bobby Gold Stories is Bourdain at his best
Recommended
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