Monday, October 25, 2021

Saving Tarboo Creek: One Family’s Quest to Heal the Land by Scott Freeman ★★★★★

Pastel colored imagery of a hand holding a leafy twig with a man gazing out into the horizon inside the hand with a caption reading Planting a tree is a way to apply hope
This was an authentic and impressive voice in eco nonfiction! 

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell ★★★★★

Ariel footage of a flooded Houston in 2017 after Hurricane Harvey
From Obama to Marshal Island Royalty, the villains and heroes of Miami, Dutch architects and die hard New Jersey coastal residents, Goodell has gathered the screaming voices of the climate change zeitgeist.

Certain Woman of an Age by Margaret Trudeau ★★★★☆

Margaret Trudeau partying in the 70s with the caption First Ladies Be Like in a pink banner
Celebrate Woman’s History Month by reading about a truly memorable icon of the 70s, Margaret Trudeau! Wife of Canada’s 15th Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, and mother of the current Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.

Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones ★★★★☆

Native American in fancy cultural dress in front of a wall of dark skulls
“And he was looking across the room like an animal, right into my soul. His eyes shown, not with light but with a kind of wet darkness." 

Sunday, October 24, 2021

Without Remorse by Tom Clancy ★★★★☆

Michael Biehn in his Terminator Look wearing a trenchcoat and holding a gun the caption reads Vigilante It came from vigiles a roman term for those who kept the watch
John Clark was never a boy scout. Half of the book is layered Clancy geopolitical games but the rest is down and dirty. Be prepared to hit the streets with an ex Navy Seal hell bent on revenge!

The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Jack Ryan #4) by Tom Clancy ★★★★☆

The American and Russian flags together in a diagonal with the US flag on top
Comrades, this was much better the second time around. I got choked up at the end, a tear nearly escaped.

The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan #3) by Tom Clancy ★★★☆☆

Blue light photo of Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin with the sea in the background the caption reads The Movie Was Better Mal'Chik
And so it is for the third time I can say the movie was better than the book.

Red Rabbit (Jack Ryan #2) by Tom Clancy ★★★★★

Mary McCormick and Frederick Weller from In Plain Site with the Caption The Foley's with a bird underneath
Five spy-citing stars! This is Cold War miniseries gold. Of all the Ryan books, this is the one I remembered the most.

Patriot Games (Jack Ryan #1) by Tom Clancy ★★★★★

Image Collage from the movie Patriot Games with the caption Patriot Games by Tom Clancy
If there’s anything better than classic Clancy I have yet to find it. Damn but this was good, a perfect balance of action, intrigue, and investigation. Listed as the first Jack Ryan adventure, the old girl holds up well.

American Assassin (Mitch Rapp #1) by Vince Flynn ★★★★★

Taylor Kitsch as An American Assassin Holding a Gun
“Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved.”