The Closers
We clogged the Costco check out line today with three hundred dollars worth of essentials. In addition to the fifty-five gallon drum of olive oil, the too-heavy-to pickup box of soy milk, the left flank of Mt Washington turned into toilet paper and paper towels, we (okay, I) bought the new Michael Connelly book.
Priced at a buck or two above what the paperback version will sell for, I couldn’t resist. The young lad helping box our stuff said to Diane ( I was off using the facilities), “I’ve read only one of these, but I liked it. The main character’s name is Harry, but doesn’t he have a longer name?†Diane, not a fan or even a reader of the Harry Bosch series replied, “Hieronymus.â€
Adam and rakkity, set your Barcoloungers to “easy reading.†I should be finished by next weekend.
Coincidentally, this morning I put three books on the burro train heading north to the Miller Black Hole Book Depository. When you finish off the
Connelley, you can try out a Bernard Cornwell and a couple of lightweights. It’s up to you to decide whether a 3 for 1 trade is fair. For a new Bosch book, maybe it is.
Comment by rakkity — May 21, 2005 @ 10:57 pm
I thought it was Patricia Cornwell?
IÃll look forward to Bernard because methinks Michael is going to let me down, bloodlust wise. Closers, so titled because Harry reups with the LAPD as a cold-case solver, is, so far, a worm holing plummet into minutiae.
ìBosch ran his fingers along the cracked spines of the murder books.î Harry, get your finger off those spines and wrap it around the trigger of your service revolver!î I know, rakkity, I am incorrigible.
Comment by michael — May 22, 2005 @ 9:09 am
She is one smarty pants woman, that Diane. Makes me proud.
Comment by Fierce Baby — May 22, 2005 @ 9:10 am
Please don’t confuse Patricia with Bernard.
“Scoundrel” is one of Bernard’s few non-historical
novels. Pretty good, though I guessed some of the secrets that aren’t revealed till the end.
Comment by rakkity — May 22, 2005 @ 11:04 am