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Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson

Well... I thought I had posted a pre read post of this but it never published on here. But I did just finish the book and I could not be more satisfied with a trilogy conclusion.  All my questions were answered and even small details covered.  I am going to have to check out all the movies again and watch the Swedish TV show Millennium...  cuZ I am crazy.
If you are unaware of this series you need to get on it.  It's hard to start. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is very slow going to begin but once you get past the 1st 100 pages it is a roller coaster!

Toys by James Patterson

Good read... or listen rather. Just finished listening to it in my car. Not a completely original idea but a cool futuristic story about cyborg type humans taking over the human race.

Game of Thrones... A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin

I finally finished this book! I don't know how to review it though other than to tell you it is great and sticks to being awesome just like the other 4 books ... spoiler alert more characters die.(or you assume they are dead.) I have been really slacking on this blog and my fb page. I may just stick with the fb page .. not certain yet. If i actually had ppl reading my reviews on here I would continue but oh well.

77 Shadow Street and The Moonlit Mind by Dean Koontz

Well I am going to be honest first. 77 Shadow Street was not the best Dean Koontz book I have read but it was not awful either. It was pretty demonic and I enjoyed that and it was a little more violent than I remember Koontz books being. I have not read him in a while though so that may be part of my opinion. More to the point of this review though...
77 Shadow Street is a story about an old mansion on Shadow Hill converted into penthouse apartments. The tenants who live in the apartments all start experiencing really strange occurrences that eventually lead to horrific violence and death... sounds fun right? With a pretty unexpected twist at the end the book keeps you guessing as to what is causing the disruption in the old mansion blending the past with the present and the future.
I give it a 3 1/2 out of 5. Glad I paid half price for the nook e book version. 

The Moonlit Mind (Novella) A tale of Suspense by Dean Koontz is a extension off of the 77 Shadow Street story.  This is the story of a boy named Crispin that lives with his little brother and sister in a large house across the street from The Pendelton( the mansion from 77). Like the story in 77 as well, there are a lot of weird things happening with the house and cause Crispin to escape and run away. The evil is not as evident until later in the story but it does foreshadow what craziness eventually happens in 77. By the way I am abbreviating 77 Shadow Street as "77". I enjoyed the story line of this novella almost more than the 77 plot and I feel like it could definitely be developed into a full novel.
I give it as well a 3 1/2 out of 5. Worth reading but helped it was cheap and on the nook so it was easy to read on the go while I am also reading A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin and its 1000 pageness.

Beards today...book reviews hopefully soon!

Jury Duty isn't that bad if you have a book

Sat around for 8 hours yesterday for jury duty. It was only jury selection and thank the gods of old and new(game of thrones ref.) That I didn't get picked.  I did have a positive aspect of the day though and that was catching up on some reading.  I read about 80 pages in between getting moved around the courthouse in jury musical chairs. I still have a ton of reading to do for A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin but at least yesterday was helpful. 

But for real... if you ever get jury duty bring a book. You are crazy if you don't. And here is a pic of me looking better than all the other jurors :)

What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

This book was about being able to get inside the decisions that people make and what it must have been like to be in their shoes when an event happened to them. Gladwell wants to truly understand the processes people and among other things dogs go through when faced with a decision, discipline  or problem they have to face. With everything from JFK Jr's plane crash and how it happened to Caesar Milan and how he tames dogs with a single touch.
I honestly think this book and his other book Blink, are almost the same story, almost like a continuation. This book has just been grouped together with a slightly different theme. I had the same problem with this book as I did with Blink though... it got boring.  The subject matter is interesting but so repetitive and about half way through reading (or in my case listening) I was like "Yes, we get it!"
I don't mean to dissuade anyone from reading his books.  Like I said what he is writing about is very interesting and gives good insight to the human condition and also a good change up to read if your book shelf is full of Patterson novels and twilight sagas. 
I would really enjoy hearing feedback on what you think of Gladwell's books if not What the Dog Saw then any of his other books and also if you know of anything similar to him you would like me to read and review. 

A Dance With Dragons ... update!

Finally past the 100 page mark and the book is getting GOOD! For those of you have read the Game of Thrones series, George R. R. Martin does not hold back!  And this book is setting up to be a brutal tale. Reading at Barnes and Noble in Tallahassee while Manda studies, so finally getting some quality reading in.

What is your favorite Game of Thrones book?

The Moonlit Mind (Novella): A Tale of Suspense by Dean Koontz

This is a prequel to Koontz 77 Shadow Street which I read on my nook a few months ago. I didn't do a review of it.  But I also don't really remember much of it :) I know it was about a creepy mansion that was converted into apartments and it was in some sort of time warp between here and a hellacious future.
This (The Moonlit Mind) is a 125 page book so I should be able to blast through this in my phone in random moments while still reading A Dance With Dragons and also being a comic book collecting bad ass and also listening to What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell on audio book in my car. ... in short I am awesome.