Daily Archives: June 27, 2010

Less than 24 Hours

61 Hours, A Reacher Novel by Lee Child; 2010; 383 pages; $28.00; Delacorte Press, New York, NY; 978-0-385-3458-8; Checked out from the Multnomah County Library, Gresham; 6/26-6/27 Jack Reacher catches a tour bus through the frozen north of South Dakota.  When the bus finally makes it to the town of Bolton, Reacher finds himself in [...]

Only Matt Reilly could make this believable

Hell Island by Matthew Reilly; 2006; 115 pages; $2.99; Pan Books, London, England, UK; 978-0-330-44232-9; Checked out from the Multnomah County Library, Saint John; 6/25-6/26 Shane “Scarecrow” Schofield and his team jump out of a perfectly good airplane and land on a an aircraft carrier where an unspeakable enemy awaits.  Once again the defense department [...]

It’s Not a Grocery List

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, What I Learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller; 254 pages; 2009; $19.99; Thomas Nelson, Nashville, TN; 978-0-7852-1306-2; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, North Portland; 6/23-6/25 I think that Donald Miller could make a grocery list interesting if he wanted to.  This book grew out of [...]

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