The Reading Room

I will try to keep up with what I am reading here.

Monday, May 11, 2015

Book #18: Fear the Darkness, by Becky Masterman

This is the second Brigid Quinn novel.  She is a 60-ish recently retired FBI special agent, recently married to a former Catholic priest.  I read the first one, Rage Against the Dying.  It was good, but this one is so much better.  It has more twists and turns than a bag of curly fries!  I can't wait to see what the next one has in store for us.  Highly recommended to mystery buffs.

Book #17: Chasing Midnight, by Randy Wayne White

This is the first of the Doc Ford books I've read (Mysteries?  Thrillers?)  Good but not terribly impressive.  It may not be a good introduction, since it all takes place in the span of one day,, so there wasn't much character development or back-story information.  I'm going to try another just to see if there might be more to this series than this book suggests.

Book #16: Searching for and Maintaining Peace, by Fr. Jacques Phillipe

This little book has much wisdom, simple yet profound.  It's somewhat in the vein of Abandonment to Divine Providence by De Cassaud.  Put your trust in God, who gave His only Son for you.  A book to read, re-read, and read slowly again and again.  Highly recommended.

Book #14, The Way West, and #15, Fair Land, Fair Land, by A. B. Guthrie Jr.

These are the last 2 books in the trilogy.  They give a fascinating look at, firstly, the rigors of taking a wagon train to Oregon, and, in the finale, the somewhat  melancholy life of an aging man of the West who knows his day has past, and the life he loved is about to be replaced by settlers and towns.  Highly recommended.