Criminal

criminal_karenSlaughterCriminal by Karin Slaughter
Copyright 2012
Hardback
ISBN978-0-345-52850-6
Karin Slaughter’s new novel is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder that encompasses forty years, two chillingly similar murder cases, and a good man’s deepest secrets.

Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda’s motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before—when Will’s father was imprisoned for murder—this was his home. . . .

Flash back nearly forty years. In the summer Will Trent was born, Amanda Wagner is going to college, making Sunday dinners for her father, taking her first steps in the boys’ club that is the Atlanta Police Department. One of her first cases is to investigate a brutal crime in one of the city’s worst neighborhoods. Amanda and her partner, Evelyn, are the only ones who seem to care if an arrest is ever made.

Now the case that launched Amanda’s career has suddenly come back to life, intertwined with the long-held mystery of Will’s birth and parentage. And these two dauntless investigators will each need to face down demons from the past if they are to prevent an even greater terror from being unleashed.

 

 

 

Update 05-19-12

Site update – got the site moved to it’s new location and home. Still a lot of work yet to do on the site but at least it’s back up and visible.

Need to finish tagging the book posts so that I can search for them by author, type, plot and theme.

 

 

Five More Books

Five more books were read during the month of January 2012. I’ve added the titles and scan of the book cover to posts related to the Reading and Book Categories.  Decided that I will continue to keep track of books I’ve read for 2012. It was fun to do last year and I found out that it also provided some value to me. It helped me to organize the library and book shelves in the house.  It also provides a way to remember what I have read and what I have not. Reading is relaxing for me. I sit quite a bit at the computer or have a laptop or tablet in the easy chair. When I get tired of being at the desk or in the office area I tend to curl up with a blanket to read a real book. Taking the mind of business often gives me great ideas when I come back to work.

I have several Kindle versions of books on my tablet. I enjoy the convenience of having them on the tablet so I don’t have to physically have them with me but there is something about turning the pages of a real book – even if it is a paperback book – that I enjoy. I also have found that I seem to have favorite book marks that I tend to use from book to book. Interesting things you learn about yourself when you take a moment to reflect.

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100 Books

100 Books

Have you read more than 6 of these books?

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen*
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien*
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte*
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling*
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee*
6 The Bible*
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte*
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell*
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman*
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens *
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott*
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy*
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare*
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier *
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien*
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger *
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell*
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams*
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck*
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carrol*l
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame*
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens*
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis*
34 Emma -Jane Austen*
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen*
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis*
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne *
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell *
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown *
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy*
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding *
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert*
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen*
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley*
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon*
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold *
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding*
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville*
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens*
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker*
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett*
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson*
75 Ulysses – James Joyce *
76 The Inferno – Dante*
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome*
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray*
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens*
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White*
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle *
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton*
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams*
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute *
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas*
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare *
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl*
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

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Refocus thoughts

I am really surprised at how many sites have indicated that they are in the process of realigning, refocusing, re-visiting, re-thinking, re-doing, or making changes. Change is always going on. The pace and the number of changes just seems to be unusual.

It provides me more food for thought and makes it interesting to see where all this change will go. I know that I often have been felt over whelmed due to too many choices so I don’t make a choice at all. Has this happened to you?

Welcome! More Books Added….

Welcome!   The pile of books next to my reading chair needs to be taken care of to make room for more new titles waiting to be read. So I am spending part of today adding more posts to this site of the recent books I have finished reading.

For those of you coming to the site for the first time I made a commitment to record the titles of the books that I read during the 2011 calendar year.  Back in January 2011 I was inspired by a post by Seth Godin about the average number of books that an American reads. I know that I am different than most folks so I was very curious to find out just how many books I actually read in a year. It’s almost a year later and I find that I have enjoyed keeping track. I have not been so good at posting the titles.  I have quite a number of posts to make so I’m going to spend more time each day during December to get all of the books posted so that I will have a total number. This has turned out to be fun project for me. I am toying with the idea to create a database of titles but am not sure if I really need to have a database since I can easily search for more specifics for each book.

How many books do you read in a year? Post a comment and let me know.

 

Added:

Match Game
Amazing Grace
Irresistible
Murder in the Hamptons
Star Flight
I Feel Bad About My Neck