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One for the Money

January 15, 2012 Books / Money / Movies / Read-A-Day 2012 / Television
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While I was work­ing on the prob­lems with my Kin­dle yes­ter­day, I was intrigued by the Kin­dle ad for a con­test to attend the movie pre­mière of Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money in New York, so I picked up the book.

It was a pretty short read and I pounded through it in just under a day — a fun read, and the newbie-​female per­spec­tive was fresh. I can see Plum being taken in a lot of dif­fer­ent direc­tions, which is obvi­ously true since there’s some­thing like sev­en­teen books in the series now, despite the fact that the first one was pub­lished in 2005. I have to admit, Kather­ine Heigl seems like a good fit for Stephanie Plum — she’s got the flus­tered female thing down pat.

Any­way, this made me want to read some more hard-​hitting mys­tery. Should I re-​read Sher­lock Holmes? (By the way, have you been fol­low­ing the sec­ond sea­son of Sher­lock? So good!)

On sec­ond thought, I should try some­thing new. What’s the best mys­tery novel you’ve read?

Heat Wave

January 12, 2012 Books / Read-A-Day 2012 / Television
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My Jan­u­ary book form the Kin­dle Owner’s Lend­ing Library is Richard Castle’s Heat Wave, the first book in the Nikki Heat series by Richard Cas­tle from the ABC show Cas­tle.

If you’re not famil­iar with the show, Nathan Fil­lion plays Richard Cas­tle, a mys­tery writer who is brought in on a case with the NYPD when a killer uses scenes from his books in real crimes. He starts to fol­low Detec­tive Beck­ett reg­u­larly and writes a new series of mys­ter­ies based on her. I was inter­ested by this book because I like the show’s style. Appar­ently, the books have been doing quite well and hit the best­sellers list. I wanted to see whether the books were good or sim­ply lever­ag­ing the show’s audience.

So far, I am 36% through the book and it is quite a good read. The focus on Nikki is inter­est­ing, espe­cially her inter­nal dia­logues, since the show tends to focus more on Cas­tle than Beckett’s men­tal process. The feel of the show is cap­tured quite well. In fact, the char­ac­ters are equiv­a­lent to the ones from the show. There’s Detec­tive Nikki Heat with an unsolved mur­dered mother; Jame­son Rook, a celebrity jour­nal­ist doing a ride-​along; Raley and Ochoa, the other two detec­tives in the unit; and Lau­ren Parry, the female coro­ner and friend, all just like on the show.

Hidden Crystal

January 6, 2012 Books / Read-A-Day 2012
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I wanted to take advan­tage of Amazon’s “Kin­dle Owner Lend­ing Library” pro­gram and get a bunch of free books to read, but I found out after the fact that you are restricted to one book per cal­en­dar month and you must “return” your pre­vi­ous book when you “bor­row” a new one.

The first book I got was Daniel Gimness’s The Hid­den Crys­tal. It just hap­pened to be the first eli­gi­ble book I came across. I tech­ni­cally got it in Decem­ber, so I want to get it read and get another book for Jan­u­ary. Thus my break away from the Black Com­pany series.

Any­ways, I’m about 20% into Hid­den Crys­tal, and I’ve got to say — it is trope-​tastic! I feel like the author was try­ing to string together as many cliches as pos­si­ble, and he used almost elab­o­rately dis­jointed scenes to get max­i­mum trope den­sity for you.

I need to fin­ish this quick so I can get back to Glen Cook. I also need to pick my Jan­u­ary “Lend­ing Library” book — too bad they make it so dif­fi­cult to go through all the eli­gi­ble books.

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