I Spent My Day With Jack Reacher

I had so many things I wanted to get done today...Then I started reading Personal, the newest Jack Reacher book by Lee Child.  Everything else fell by the wayside.  Thankfully, I started reading AFTER my dentist appointment, so I did make it there.  I started it last night and finished it the afternoon.  That's how good it was.  I liked it better than the last two.

"Hope for the best, plan for the worst."  That's Jack Reacher's life motto, and it serves him well in this book.  "Personal," takes him to Europe to investigate a failed assassination attempt against a French diplomat.  While in Seattle, he is summoned to meet with an old army acquaintance and his help is solicited to pay off an old debt.  Of course, he goes.  Of course, his security clearance was never revoked so he can work this case.  Of course, he drinks lots of coffee.  The series may be a bit formulaic, but Reacher is one of a kind and the formula is often just because Reacher is a creature of habit.

As always, I enjoyed myself.  I don't understand the naysayers, Jack Reacher is truly a hero.  America is lucky to have him on her side :)

Also, in reading this book I decided that he is an INTJ.

All the Light We Cannot See

I just finished All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.  Wow.  Where do I start with this book?  It took me longer to read it than most books, not only because of the physical length but also because of the weight of the writing.

The book told the stories of two separate characters- Marie-Laure, a young, blind French girl; and Werner Pfennig a highly intelligent German boy.  It follows their early lives in France and Germany.  The book has many lesser characters whose foreign names made them difficult to keep track of in the beginning.

The story deals with topics about the Nazis, fate, the meaning of relationships, technology, and the small choices we all make that effect the rest of our lives.  That is a very simple description of a book that I will not soon forget.  I felt many emotions while reading it- curiosity, sadness, exhaustion, elation, the whole spectrum of human emotions.  I highly recommend this book.  Now excuse me please while I try to overcome my book hangover.