Hope everyone had a great day and hopefully made time to throw in a little reading.
To get us started off I want to hear from all of you that read YA novels. What do you like about them? How many do you read in the course of a year? I want to know everything. Usually I stay away from them because I'm just not a fan.......but someone I respect has gotten me to rethink my view. So help me out and tell me what you think.
I want to talk about Daniel Silva. I've been reading his Gabriel Allon series for several years and I just love his writing. Gabriel Allon is an art restorer and works for the Israeli government....he is one bad ass guy. The first book in the Allon series is The Kill Artist. This is where we meet Gabriel and learn about what makes him the man he is. Dark, haunted, very loyal, says what he means and means what he says. With each following novel Silva builds on Gabriel's story. We find out that he is married, that his wife Leah and son Daniel were hurt in a car explosion. Sadly Daniel died and Leah has never recovered and resides in a asylum. The author does a wonderful job of taking the reader all over the world. France, Germany, Italy, England, Corsica, and even our own United States. In each of these countries Gabriel has allies and enemies which he uses to his advantage.
I finished The English Girl on Sunday afternoon. Gabriel works along side a former enemy, Christopher Keller whom we met in an earlier novel. Keller at one time tried to kill Gabriel and in this novel they work together. Let me tell you it is hilarious and I must admit that I have never laughed while reading a Daniel Silva book. In most all of the books we come to know Gabriel's team and understand that these wonderfully brave lonely people have become a family. Not all of the novels have a happy ending, in fact most don't......but there is enough within to always make me cheer for him.
I'm looking forward to reading the next in the series The Heist and of course I will have to talk about it. I mean, you know how it is.
So what's up next in the next few weeks? One of my book groups is reading The Martian by Andy Weir so I will have to share what we talked about. I'm about half done with it and wow! That's all I'm going to say.
Most of you know that I work in a bookstore (I know.....am I addicted to books or what) and lately I've been selling a book that I read many years ago. It is a non fiction book called The Color of Water by James McBride. I read this about 15 years ago and I still think about this book. So in an upcoming post I'm going to be talking about this book and why I think it is timeless and why after all these years I still think about it.
Well enough for tonight. I'm off to bed and a little night time reading........not sure what I will land on for tonight but I'll be sure to let you know.
Thanks for talking books with me!
Great job on the first blog!! Short and sweet. I read "My Name is Memory" ,Ann Brashares. I am pretty sure it is YA. Loved it. I think we may have talked about it previously. I have recommended it to many. I will think of others as time goes along.
ReplyDeleteI'm collecting a whole shelf of YA books to read. I'm hoping I've picked some that don't have a love triangle, someone in an accident, or someone dying. I think I've made some good selections.
DeletePatti thanks for mentioning "The Color of Water." I looked it up and it sounds like a great book. I'll be reading that one next!!
ReplyDeleteNoni when it was picked for the book club I was in at the time, I came home and made a cup of tea and sat and was looking at it. I started reading the first page and I stayed up all night reading it until I was finished. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on it.
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