Tripwire Lee Child. Do not read this book if you are looking for some Jack Reacher ass kicking. Jack Reacher kicks no ass in the book because he is too busy being a man-whore with a dead General's daughter that he thought was cute when he was 24 and she was fifteen. Yes fifteen. And Jack Reacher spends a inordinate amount of time describing the feelings he had for the fifteen year old when he was 24 and it is creepy. Why couldn't the author had made her 17 at the time. The whole premise of the book was hard to follow. Reacher has some guys looking for him which is related to a dead soldier in Vietnam. The book plays out in two distinct voices: Jack Reacher when he's not in bed with the now 30 year old, 15 year old and the bad guy explaining what he was doing. I didn't like it. So much so that I'm not going to read another Jack Reacher novel for a week.
Shit My Dad Says Justin Halpern. I had to stop reading because laughing made me hurt. Cute. Funny. Do not think it anything like the crap that's on the TV under the same name.
Life of Pi Yann Martel. Life of Pi is the story of Piscine Molitor Patel of India. "Pi" is an incredibly earnest and religious young man who finds God in Islam, Christianity and Hindu. He is told he has to chose just one religion by everyone, but he has a difficult time, because he just wants to love God. His father owns a zoo and decides to sell the zoo and move to Canada. He boards the animals and his family on a ship and they set off across the Pacific. Tragedy strikes, the ship sinks and Pi finds himself on a lifeboat with a Bengel tiger named Richard Parker, a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, an orangutan. It doesn't take long before it's just Richard Parker and Pi on the boat. What follows is the incredible survival story of a young man who spends 227 days at sea with a tiger. I had heard about this book, but never though to pick it up and in fact, when I started reading it, I had no idea what it was about.
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