Today I went to used book store and I bought E.R. Burroughs' "Mars" series.

I suspect many of you will be way ahead of me on this but I've just finished A Matter Of Blood by Sarah Pinborough, the first part of The Dog Faced Gods trilogy. I honestly think the last time I was this impressed by an author new to me was when I first read The Keep. And that was many, many years ago!

Really, if a very bleak police story with growing supernatural overtones appeals give it a try. I was rash (OK, it was recommended to me) enough to buy the whole trilogy so now I can just carry on.

I have all those on my Kindle. Classics are always free so I've downloaded just about everything.

Today I went to used book store and I bought E.R. Burroughs' "Mars" series.

I have all those on my Kindle. Classics are always free so I've downloaded just about everything.

Cool. But I don't have Kindle. I like book which made by paper. I know I know....I'm old fashioned guy.

I just finished up Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. It tells the story of Wade, a twenty-something kid living in the stacks. The world has depleted its energy resources and most people now plug into the Oasis, an MMO unlike all others. It really is a virtual world where kids go to school, people work and play, all from the comfort of their tiny 10x10 homes.

Now, the creator of the OASIS, Halliday, has died and he'd leaving his company and vast fortune to the first person who can decipher the clues he's left scattered throughout the OASIS. Besides Wade and the other "gunters" who are trying to win the contest, IOI, the largest and most powerful corporation in the world, is also trying to win. They want to profit from the Oasis, and will stop at nothing to be the winners of the contest.

This thing is chock full of 70's and 80's references as Halliday grew up in this time period and has many fond memories of the era. Having two kids, working full time, and having a lot of other hobbies it's rare I get through books quickly, but this is one that kept pulling me back. I finished it in about a week and it is now in my top five.

I definitely recommend this novel. If you haven't read it you should. It's fantastic.

I am only 100 pages in but The Inquisitor by Mark Allen Smith is excellent. Geiger, the protagonist, is fascinating. He works as an information retrieval specialist-he tortures people but rarely resorts to pain. He operates much like RJ, he lives off the grid and has a couple of close associates. I will let you know if the rest of the book delivers on the promise of the first third.

Well the similarities with RJ came to an end, Geiger turned out to be nothing like him, but the book did deliver; a superior thriller with some characters unlike any I've read before.

i am reading Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore ... And it is going to be a tedius chore to finish it ... although I loved his book Fool ... that was an amazing book.

April

I loved all his books

Now I'm reading The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly. So far, so good!

Really liked the Lincoln Lawyer. Like all of his, but the LL was my favorite by him.

I'm 13% into The Trinity Game by Sean Chercover and thoroughly hooked.