My niece reading "the puppy book" to Jack.
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With the holiday this week, I ended up spending more time traveling and visiting with family, and less time reading, but I did manage to make it through one book. The Order of Death by Hugh Fleetwood is an older book that’s been on my reading list for awhile. Right now I am in the middle of a completely engrossing science book, Adam’s Curse: A Future Without Men by Bryan Sykes.
The Order of Death
This 1970s novel set in New York was written by an Englishman living in Italy, which sounds like a recipe for disaster, but in fact, the book is surprisingly good, and doesn’t have that dated feel that popular fiction that is more than a couple of decades old can sometimes feel. A serial killer is killing NYPD narcotics officer. The protagonist is a corrupt police officer with a secret life. That secret life and his entire world start to fall apart when he meets a mentally unbalanced young man. The book was not at all what I expected it to be and kept me entertained to the last page. A quick Google search turned up the fact that the author is also a renowned artist and that the novel was made into a movie with Harvey Keitel and Johnny Rotten, which US viewers would know as Corrupt.
What are you reading this week?
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Adam’s Curse sounds interesting.
Who knew a genetics book could be so fascinating? Though, my father got all upset when he saw the title. I tried pointing out that it was a science book and that it was written by a man.
That’s how it is here. We read less during the holidays. We’ve started watching movies together during that time. After the holidays, we’ll pick up our reading again.
Things do get a little crazy in December, but I always think this time of year when it starts to get colder and the nights start a little earlier are perfect for reading.