Don't Shoot!

Howdy All,

Sorry it has been awhile since my last post, but I had caught a cold, and was just getting over that, and managed to get the flu. So it hasn't been a very fun, or exciting time. To make it even more fun, I get to work even when I'm sick...I think that seriously delayed how fast I could get better. I'm mostly better now, but I still have this stupid cough from hell that seems determined to stick around for awhile yet.

I did manage to finish seasons 3 and 4 of The Big Bang Theory. The show keeps getting better and better, and I think they've really hit their groove. We've had a couple new characters introduced to the show as well, balancing out the girl to guy ratio a bit.

I also read a book: I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak. I wasn't entirely sure if I'd like this book or not. My wife had read it first, and said I might find it interesting, and I saw the image of the first ace that our hero Ed Kennedy receives in the story. It seemed kind of intriguing. I popped it onto the kindle, and from the very beginning I was hooked. The book jumps right in with:

The gunman is useless.
I know it.
He knows it.
The whole bank knows it.
Even my best mate, Marvin, knows it, and he's more useless than the gunman.

That sucked me right in. It warns you on the cover of the paperback edition with a quote from Publishers Weekly: "Don't start this compulsively readable book without enough time to read it straight through to the final page." I totally agree with that thought. I couldn't put the book down. Its 370 pages, I finished it on day two.

There are a couple of reviews on Amazon, and you check them out if you want a more thorough review. I won't ruin the book for you... in a nutshell, Ed Kennedy gets a card in the mail, the Ace of Diamonds.Written on the face of the card are three addresses and times. Ed has to figure out what the heck the card means, and what he's supposed to do with it, and about it. Along his journey he meets some other interesting characters, makes some friends, hauls a guy out to the middle of nowhere to kill him, beats up a kid, finds love...just to name a few things. There's an interesting twist at the end of the book, you probably won't see it coming. The overall feel of the book reminded me a lot of Way of the Peaceful Warrior, by Dan Millman.

Use the link above, or click the image to check out the book at Amazon. If you read it, or have read it, let me know what you think!