Sorry behind on my blogging
Wow it's been a busy two months and I'm way behind on my blogging. So let me catch you up.
I borrowed the book "Heat Wave" by Richard Castle. Only Richard Castle isn't a real author. Richard Castle is a character on the television series "Castle" on ABC. Confused yet? Yeah me too. The character, Richard Castle, on the television series is an author who is following around a female New York homocide detective named Kate Beckett to get information for his new murder series based a homocide detective named Nikki Heat. The book "Heat Wave" is the book that character Richard Castle wrote.
Okay, here is where it gets more confusing. The book "Heat Wave" is about a magazine writer, Jameson Rook, following a New York homicide detective around named Nikki Heat. He is writing a magazine article about homocide detectives in New York.
The book was okay. I like the t.v. series and thought it would be fun to read the book that the character, Richard Castle is writing. But, when I read the book the same dialogue and gags were pretty much the same as the series. It was like sitting through a rerun. Secondly this is not the kind of book I would normally read. Some of the scenes were steamier than I read. The mystery was good but a couple of the characters were weak and I had a hard time believing some of the scenes. I was thinking, "Nobody does this" "Nobody says that."
Then I read "Wrecked" by Carol Higgins Clark. Her books are quick reads, a Saturday afternoon pasttime. Wrecked brings back Jack and Regan Reilly on their first wedding anniversary. They go to Jack's parents vacation home on Cape Cod for a nice quiet weekend. Okay, nice quiet weekend for Jack and Regan, it doesn't happen. First their nosey neighbor sisters Fran and Ginny come running over because a tree limb came through their living room window during a storm. While the pair are regaling Jack and Regan with their misadventures the caretaker comes running in to tell them that the next door neighbor was laying unconscious at the bottom of the stairs on the beach. Jack and the caretaker run down there only to find the tide has come in and the woman is gone. From there the weekend goes downhill. Add to the chaos two women that run a pillow shop specializing in pillows to people who have done you wrong and an off broadway theater company rehearsing in an old castle. But as always, Jack and Riley solve all the mysteries and in spite of everything have a wonderful first anniversary party.
Next I read "Double Comfort Safari Club" by Alexander McCall Smith. It's another No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency book with Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi. Grace's fiancee Phuti Radiphuti is injured in an accident and his overbearing aunt steps in to take over his recovery leaving Grace out in the cold. Precious and her friend Mma. Potswane come to her rescue at the same time as Precious is trying to find a safari guide who has inherited a large amount of money and help a friend and her husband with a delicate marital situation. As always Precious' wisdom and diplomacy win the day and resolve all the issues. The history, culture and landscape in Botswana, Africa are described in such a way it's as though you are there driving with Precious and Grace to the Delta. His books are easy reads, interesting but not very exciting.
I wanted to mention the movie John Adams based on the book by the same name by David McCullough. The movie is a seven-part HBO miniseries that is excellent. It starts with Adams at the beginning of the Revolutionary War and continues through the Contenental Congress, his career as a diplomat to France, Holland and England, his political career as the first Vice President and the second President of the United States and on until his death just a few hours before Thomas Jefferson died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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