![]() A couple of these books I ended up with lukewarm feelings. There was plenty of fantasy, but I read a couple classics, one World War II book, three books that were set in a secondary world but otherwise didn’t have other traditional fantasy elements, one literary fiction, one sci fi, and one modern gothic horror thing. I continued with one series I’ve been reading, read a whole new trilogy, and started another one. I read one book in Braille and the rest were audio. Some were really long, and some were really short. Wow! This brigns me to a total of 80 books in 2019, and so I’m back on track to meet my goal of reading one hundred books this year, but also I’m straining my collage app to the limit. While I’m still really tired and can’t quite get my sleep schedule the way I want it, I feel like I’m at least starting to find a balance between work and fun, and I’m really happy. I also really ramped up my exercise at the barre, because I won a free month and so I just went all the time, and now I’m addicted. I understand a lot of the words that are being used now, at least. I kept on working, and while I still feel like I’m pretty clueless, I’m feeling like I’m slightly less clueless. ![]() I started a writing group, and after a lot of gathering people and deciding how we were going to operate and finding where to meet, we finally had our first meeting last weekend and it was everything I wanted it to be. I also got to meet my agent in person, which was also great. I finished revisions on my book and sent them off to my agent, which is very exciting. I’m not actually doing NaNoWriMo this year, because I’m living in revision land on a bunch of projects, so word counts are hard, but I am trying to write every day, and so far I’m succeeding.īut before we really get into November, a lot happened in October. The weather is finally turning, the pumpkin spice madness still somehow continues, and it’s NaNoWriMo. But I commend the book for educating readers on the flora, fauna, and conditions native to the Grand Canyon there is plenty to learn in the story.Hey there. What they discover is rather over the top, but perhaps a good match for their over-the-top characters and skill sets.Įvaluation: This book was good reading for an airplane ride, but I wouldn’t necessarily be tempted to follow up with the series or even with the author, unless perhaps I were to make along another cross-country trip. But she wouldn’t be out of place in a James Bond book as a secret operative.Ītlee has to navigate some of the most treacherous parts of the Grand Canyon to solve the mystery, but of course, she is up to it, as is Sam. Blum is in her sixties and is always meticulously and professionally dressed. In addition to handsome Sam, Atlee is also aided immensely by her clever and resourceful office secretary, Carol Blum. Olympic team as a weightlifter and “her core was iron.” This is not a problem however, since Atlee, whose name might have been “Jackie” Reacher (referring here to the cartoonishly invulnerable hero Jack Reacher in the series by Lee Child), is solid, muscular, previously competed in MMA (mixed martial arts) and kickboxing, and “had the toughness and confidence to survive in a man’s world.” She came within one kilo of making the U.S. ![]() All she knows for sure is that her life is in danger. Before long, she gets involved in a complicated matter that seems to involve Russia, North Korea, China, the U.S. Atlee, along with the fit, handsome ranger Sam Kettler, tried to find out what happened but Atlee was warned by her supervisors to let it go. She is asked to go to the relatively nearby Grand Canyon for a case involving a missing tourist his mule was found cut up but there was no evidence of the rider. The obsession over what happened to Mercy shaped her life it made her a loner, and motivated her to get in the best possible physical condition so she would never be taken by surprise again.Ītlee works as the sole FBI agent in a remote office in Shattered Rock, Arizona. She is desperate for closure, but Tor has no reason to provide her with that satisfaction. He admitted to 34 killings but not to her sister’s. ![]() Atlee believes that a brilliant serial killer, Daniel James Tor, was the one who took her sister, but she can’t prove it. Long Road to Mercy is the first in a new series about FBI agent Atlee Pine, 35, whose twin sister Mercy was abducted from their bedroom window and presumably murdered when the girls were six years old. ![]() I received this book as a gift, so it seemed like a good opportunity to see what makes this author so popular. David Baldacci has published many mystery/thrillers, several of which have been adapted for film and television, but I had not read any of his books before now. ![]()
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