Mickey's Summer Reading Adventure, Part III.....

Well, August is here, school is almost back again, and Mickey has officially killed another trio of escapist fiction. Here's the run-down:

Music of the Spheres by Elizabeth Redfern. One of the little review blurbs on the cover of this baby said that it was very much in the Alienist (Caleb Carr) mold, a book that I've read and enjoyed. If you haven't read Caleb Carr yet, he's a good author to add to your rotation. This is a story of murder, astronomy, and espionage (pretty much in that order) that's set in London during the French Revolution. Way too much intrigue, backstabbing, and mystery to get into here, but suffice it to say that it's an incredibly complex web woven within the tumultuous period after the American Revolution in the French one. Different, but good.







Not wanting to go immediately back into my James Patterson cocoon, I set off for a local bookstore to order (in the second shipment) my copy of the new Harry Potter book. I had to grab another book to tear through in the meantime. And it just so happened that I saw, sitting there on the shelf calling to me, a new installment of a Dirk Pitt adventure in Treasure of Khan by Clive Cussler. I've been reading the adventures of Dirk, Al, Rudi, and the NUMA crew for well over a decade now, and I must say that it's the most enjoyable series of books that's in my rotation. Also a massive factor in my love of Cussler's writings is my complete love of anything to do with the sea and the water. If you haven't ever read a Dirk Pitt adventure, do yourself a favor.






And, of course, finally I tore through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in about three days. J.K. Rowling's seventh and final installment in the series is a terrificly quick 760-some-odd pages that perfectly ties up the series of the Boy who lived and his final push to defeat You-Know-Who. I'm looking forward to re-reading all seven of these sometime in the future, much like I've done with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings over the years. I fell like I missed some things just because I couldn't remember exactly what happened in the sixth book. But, suffice to say, it was a fantastic book, and if you've somehow been able to avoid the Harry Potter craze these past several years, it's well worth joining the cool kids.