Fiction

Been slow-reading two challenging tomes... "100 Year of Solitude" and "Don Quixote". My aim is to have them both finished in September.

Also continuing to work through Stephen King's collected work and specifically "The Dark Tower" series. I am up to volume 5: "The Wolves of the Calla" now and should be on to volume 6: "Song of Susannah" by Labor Day. Initially I set out this year to read 100 novels and I sit right now at 63, so I have fallen off pace a little during the summer months. The good news for me is that I am going to be getting back to some fast moving thrillers and crime novels in September, so that will up the total book count this fall!

I recently finished Fonda Lee's "Jade War" (The second of three in the "Green Bone Saga" ) and find the series to be highly enjoyable and recommend it to anyone that likes "The Godfather", "The Matrix"-style fights, and some fantasy elements as well...at its core, the saga is a family story in a fictional universe that plays heavily on the themes of family and loyalty as windows to the inner workings and decisions of essentially a mafia-style crime syndicate war and a magical substance called 'Jade' that can imbue people with super-human power, but at a potential cost of madness and death.