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The Year In Books

With the year coming to an end, it is time to take a look back at the books I’ve read this year, 24 in total and 18 if you exclude the graphic novels.  Of those 24, 6 were graphic novels, another 6 were non-fiction, and 3 were TV show tie-ins.  Overall, I did a good job of clearing out the “to-read” drawer, as 9 of the 18 books came from there.

The 8 authors that I read for the first this year were:
Eliot Asinof
Hugh Delehanty
James Patterson
Len Berman
Marcos Breton
Phil Jackson
Ray Bradbury
Sammy Sosa

Amber Benson, Brian K. Vaughan, and Pia Guerra were the only authors I read multiple times in 2012.

Greg Rucka’s Alpha and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl were the only books released in 2012 that I read in 2012.

I revisited the work of 5 authors that I had not read since the previous century:
Stephen King 1993
John Grisham 1996
Scott Adams 1997
Ketih R.A. DeCandido 1999
Mel Odom 1999

Finally, the breakdown by month.  Being off for most of December certainly helped pad the total a tad bit. Continue reading →

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Book 24 (of 52) – Kiss The Girls

Kiss The Girls - James Patterson

Kiss The Girls – James Patterson

I saw the movie years ago, but had thankfully forgotten most, if not all of the details before diving in to this book, which had been sitting in the “to-read” drawer for quite some time.  Unfortunately, thanks to a perusal of Wikipedia, I managed to spoil myself on the final twist: the identity of Casanova, the man who was kidnapping smart, attractive girls throughout the campuses of North Carolina.

Kiss The Girls was the second of what is now 19 Alex Cross novels produced by James Patterson.  Cross, a Washington DC detective, gets involved in the Casanova case when his niece goes missing from Duke.  In North Carolina, Cross finds himself at odds with the local police, but finds help from the FBI and an escaped victim of Casanova.

My mom and my sister have been plowing through the James Patterson collection over the past couple of years, but this was my first experience with his work, movie adaptations notwithstanding.  Despite my spoiling myself on the ending, I did enjoy the book and would certainly be interested in giving more of his work a try, assuming some of my mom’s old books are still laying around somewhere.