Swan Peak
by James Lee Burke
Reviewed by Paul McMahon
James Lee Burke seems to commute between New Orleans and Montana. Sometimes he is Dave Robicheaux an ex-New Orleans cop. Other times he is Billy Bob Holland a Missoula lawyer he might as well be a detective.
He writes in the first person and does it very well.
He puts [...]
A Most Wanted Man
by: John Le Carre
Reviewed by: Paul McMahon
322 Pages
I cannot spoil the ending of the book by telling you what it is because it is a Le Carre book and it has no ending.
We start off meeting a young man who might be Checen and might not, but who is definitely nuts.
We then meet [...]
OK, OK, I concede. “We” is smarter than “me,” at least when it comes to this fun website that helps you identify a song from just that lyric snippet that is running through your head. It’s called WhoDitty. Try it out. Once you’ve identified the song you can even buy it from either iTunes or [...]
Blue Smoke and Murder
By: Elizabeth Lowell
Book on CD
“Performed” by: Carol Monda — First time I saw that. Corol read or performed the book very well.
Reviewed by: Paul McMahon
An intriguing mystery set in the Southwest — New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and a little Idaho.
A complex plot very well written. A lot of the story [...]
Possible Side Effects
By: Augusten Burroughs
A book on CD
Commented on by Paul McMahon
Read by the Author.
Augusten Burroughs is the author of Running with Scissors which I never read, but you might have.
The jacket promised a lot, but the first three CDs did not deliver.
The author reads his own book and does a good job.
The problem is [...]
Myths, Lies & Downright Stupidity
By John Stossel, read by the author
3 CDs About 3 hours.
This is a great book to take out to see if you can listen to a book and not get lost on the way home. You may laugh, but I had to turn off many books as I neared my exit [...]
With Valentine’s day coming up on the 14th, NPR has compiled a list of more than 100 songs recommended by its member stations for a so-called “Make-Out Mix.” It’s good, but I’m partial to this shorter list from Blender magazine.
What does your list look like?
BTW, I just remembered that the first song on the first make-out [...]
Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were both born on February 12, 1809. David Contosta’s book, Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln & Charles Darwin, examines and compares the lives of these important historical figures. Interesting discussions of Lincoln and Darwin can be found in the Newsweek magazine article, “Who Was More Important: Lincoln [...]
Check it out here
Laughter of Dead Kings
By Elizabeth Peters
Reviewed by: Paul McMahon
Elizabeth Peters writes in an entertaining style, blending in a lot that makes the book fun to read.
Her plots are complicated but not confusing. They are often misleading and you sit there wondering how you got there.
This book is about the theft of THE mummy by criminals unknown [...]
