Persuader is Book 21 of the year. Lee Child wrote it. The main character is Reacher. Jack Reacher. He thinks and talks in very short sentences, and he’s extremely good at killing people. That was rather a long sentence. For Jack.
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Ah, Sookie Stackhouse. What on Earth is wrong with this woman? Why is she still hanging around here? She already knows that half of the Werewolf, Vampire, Faerie, Werepanther and representatives of pretty much every other supernatural social clique has some strange fixation with her. Why has she not skipped town and moved to somewhere – anywhere – else? It’s as if she she lacks any sense of self preservation.
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This week’s comic was nearly delayed due to a nasty case of Pac Man Fever.

The final paperback Temeraire book – there’s another out there in hardcover, but I haven’t read it yet. Once again, this is going to be a tough book to write about without giving away huge chunks of the plot. If you don’t want spoilers, don’t click on the ‘more’ link…
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Book 18 of the Books 2010 Initiative is yet another out-of-copyright Kindle book. Did you ever wonder what happens when you take one of the most famous stories of deception, lust and betrayal and sterilize it for a Victorian mindset? You get Sir James Knowles version of the Arthurian legends.
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The big news from this week’s comic is a major Hong Kong studio is making a movie about the Egyptian Gods.

Onward to the fourth installment of the Temeraire series! It’s tough to discuss the plot of this without giving major spoilers, so I’m going to just gloss over the major events and try to address some of the overarching themes without ruining any surprises.
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Another Nero Wolfe mystery, this one from the 1950’s. Even though this is obviously much later in Rex Stout’s career, he made a conscious decision to not have his characters age over time. Archie has still worked for Wolfe for about ten years. Archie is still in his late 20’s, early 30’s, Wolfe is in his mid-to-late 50’s. The only changes to the brownstone and the rest of the environment is the presence of a television set which Wolfe never watches for more than a minute or two at a time before he turns it off in disgust.
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And a half-off special! What more could you want?

And it’s back to the Nero Wolfe mysteries for the 15th book of the season. This one gets its title from The Rubiayat of Omar Khayyam, specifically the line “I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled” – although in this case the Caesar in question is a prizewinning bull named Hickory Caesar Grindon.
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