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Top Ten Tuesday – Books I wish had a sequel

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week you compile a list of ten books that coincide with that week’s theme. You can find everything you need to know about joining in here! This week’s theme is about books I wish had an epilogue. I didn’t have strong feelings about…

Binge-reading Michael Connelly

When work is hectic, and the personal life even more so, rereads and easy thrillers are the order of the day. Michael Connelly has always been one of my fallback authors during such times and hence these two books. Blood Work Blood Work is practically a vintage read. This is the first in Connelly’s Terry…

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My First Tag of 2010

My reading efforts and my life in general has been pretty lacklustre of late. Nothing eventful to blog about. Couple of weeks back, the snubnose was down with pneumonia. In the ensuing worry, leave from office, and so on, I have had to do some massive catch-up with work, and it is not over yet.…

The Black Ice by Michael Connelly

The Black Ice

I hope I am not boring all you folks with my obsession with Michael Connelly. I do read other authors, I swear! I think I am boring myself as well with my reading choices. I loaded myself with classics from the library last week to shake things up a bit and break the monotony. Yes,…

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

The Lincoln Lawyer

Mickey Haller is The Lincoln Lawyer, a Los Angeles defense attorney who does most of his work out of the back of his chauffeured Lincoln Town Car. Mickey approaches his job knowing that the law has nothing to do with truth and justice or guilt and innocence. Instead it’s a system to be worked to…

The Poet

This is the year of thrillers, it seems. Last year, I read lots of young adult and fantasy, but this is the year of thrillers, and here is one more that I am reviewing for you guys. I spent last night wide awake compulsively turning the last 100 odd pages of The Poet by Michael…

The Good Guy

Always on the prowl for a good suspense thriller writer ala John Sandford or Michael Connelly, I stumbled onto Dean Koontz, and took a chance on “The Good Guy”. Dean Koontz is not a new author, he has been writing consistently since the late 1970s. It is just that I have not really registered him…