Welcome to the blog of Nantucket Gate apartments in Tacoma, WA! If you missed last weeks post, we started sharing books to enjoy for National Book Lovers Day (August 9th). The holiday might have passed now, but summers still here, so enjoy a great book while the sun still shines! Herere a few more recommendations and their cover descriptions. Mystery: The Cuckoos Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. After losing his leg to a landmine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man. You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this. And you read that right: The Cuckoos Calling and the other books in the Cormoran Strike series were written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Fantasy/Humor: Going Postal by Terry Pratchett If youve never picked up a Terry Pratchett book before, then you are missing out. Pratchett combines humor and magical fantasy with a storytelling skill that can only leave other authors staring with envy. Each of his Discworld novels can be picked up and read without the reader being familiar with the other books in the series, so you can start with whatever book strikes your fancy. We recommend starting with Going Postal. Heres the description: Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, what with a literal mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, greedy Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical headman. But if the bold and undoable are what's called for, Moist's the man for the job -- to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every being, human or otherwise, requires: hope. Kick Back in the Sun with a Great Book, Part II
Welcome to the blog of Nantucket Gate apartments in Tacoma, WA! If you missed last weeks post, we started sharing books to enjoy for National Book Lovers Day (August 9th). The holiday might have passed now, but summers still here, so enjoy a great book while the sun still shines! Herere a few more recommendations and their cover descriptions. Mystery: The Cuckoos Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. After losing his leg to a landmine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man. You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this. And you read that right: The Cuckoos Calling and the other books in the Cormoran Strike series were written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Fantasy/Humor: Going Postal by Terry Pratchett If youve never picked up a Terry Pratchett book before, then you are missing out. Pratchett combines humor and magical fantasy with a storytelling skill that can only leave other authors staring with envy. Each of his Discworld novels can be picked up and read without the reader being familiar with the other books in the series, so you can start with whatever book strikes your fancy. We recommend starting with Going Postal. Heres the description: Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, what with a literal mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, greedy Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical headman. But if the bold and undoable are what's called for, Moist's the man for the job -- to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every being, human or otherwise, requires: hope.