569
Blog Yeah, kitt finished writing this at 21:36 on 5 July 2015Well, today is the day the streak ends.
For 569 days in a row I have communicated with my mom. Some days we exchanged "Good morning!" texts, and that was it. Some days, we hiked along a volcano ridge together. Most days, it was in between. Technology has helped us connect every day for five hundred, sixty-nine days in a row.
Today, Mom is out of reach.
And the streak is broken.
I sent her a text anyway. She'll be back in a few days, and we can try again.
In the meantime, Dad and I are up to 65 days in a row. We aren't as consistent.
Yet.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Book Notes Instead of being asleep at 13:00 on 4 July 2015, kitt created this:
Okay, I picked this book up for really cheap, after being notified it was on sale in an email from BookBub, a site with daily emails of books that are on steep discount or free on Amazon and Apple Books.
This is the first of the series of books the show Dexter is based on. I've watched the show, I found it somewhat entertaining, if hard to watch with some of the gore and just wrongness of the whole concept. I mean, not of the fact there's someone taking out the people who are killing people and not being caught, but that such people could exist (both the people doing the killing and the person killing the people doing the killing). It is an interesting twist on the concept of right and wrong and the morality of revenge for those who don't find justice.
The book follows the series incredibly well, with few details different. Said details are pretty significant, but come late enough in the story that I was thinking, "Huh, I pretty much know how this is going to end." I didn't, and that was okay. I might read the next book to see how the books and the series diverge, but only if the book is on sale (or free from the library), and only if I've run out of other books to read. The premise of the books doesn't sit well enough with me to continue reading the series.
I'm glad to have read the book. I suspect fans of the television series would enjoy it.
Possibly unrelated, I am amused by the author's name, even if it is a pen name.
The Burning Room
Book Notes Posted by kitt at 09:16 on 2 July 2015
As far as Bosch books go, it isn't clear that this is the *last* one, but it is currently the last one published. In it, Harry has about a year to go before he's completely dropped from the police force. You would think that at SOME POINT in his career, he would be able to figure out how to be political. You would think at some point he would have learned how to be just enough manipulative to get his own way. But, no. He hasn't (er... hasn't been written that way), and so, goes out on a stupid thing like, "getting a report for the amazing TWENTY YEAR OLD CASE I JUST SOLVED." Come on. You reward shit like that, you don't fire someone 6 months from retirement.
Okay, so, Harry is an old fart now. It happens. He's, what, 64 at this point? Yeah, old.
And yet... someone dies, a bad cop did it, tunnels. Still.
19 books worth of that plot.
And I read them all! Take that reading list goal! CRUSHED YOU!
Anyway, if you like the first few books, enjoy 19 books of essentially the same plot, with a few clever twists. I've enjoyed them enough that, SHOULD ANOTHER BOSCH BOOK COME OUT, I will read it.
Yeah, I kinda miss the guy already.
The Black Box
Book Notes Written with a loving hand by kitt some time around 08:12 on 1 July 2015
Okay, come on, how much coincidence can one stand? I mean, yeah, an author is going to write a nailbiter, create some suspense, but coincidence after coincidence after coincidence allows this seemingly random 20 year old case to be solved. Classic Bosch, too! Someone dies, the bad cop did it, tunnels. In this particular case, it's not a tunnel, per se, but it totally the darkness of the tunnels, so let's say metaphorical tunnel.
This is the second to last Bosch book currently published. There was enough eye rolling with all the dead cops but the case is still solved after twenty years that, well, I have to admit this counts as the first of two bad books that might make me stop reading the series (two books in a series in a row bad, and I now stop). Bosch's girlfriend is clearly completely annoying, and clearly there only for filler. She doesn't add much to the plot, yet is insecure enough to be awkward. The real Bosch would have dumped her already, as he tried to do at the beginning of their relationship in the previous book.
Nearly done with the series, which is good, because I've been tearing through these, and, well, with the end so close, I'll be somewhat relieved to finish the series. Even in his old age, Bosch is still a lone wolf, a keep-the-cards-tight-to-the-chest, if-I-die-the-case-goes-with-me sort of player. You'd think he would have mellowed out.
I don't recommend this book unless you've already been reading the series and want to finish it. Then it's classic Bosch, read it.
Tofu
Blog Yeah, kitt finished writing this at 19:35 on 29 June 2015I think I'm getting better at cutting tofu.
