The Printed Page

** Non-series books only. Anything series related and that was the majority of my reading in February can be found at A Serial Reader.

Two months of 2011 have come and gone. It’s amazing to me how time seems to fly the older one gets yet it moves no differently than it ever has. I know as an adult I measure the passing of time differently than I did as a child. As a child I measured time passing by birthdays, school holidays and summer break. Now I view time passing by the ages of my nephews and coworkers children, daily as I rip another page off the cat naps calendar, our annual winter vacation and each monthly wrap up post I write here and at A Serial Reader. It seems like yesterday that I was writing the January posts and creating a companion blog. Now the end of February finds me pressing play and repeat again.

I read 14 books this month and DNF’d three. I think the monster cold I caught at the beginning of month has something to do with at least one of those DNFs. Of those 14 only 2 weren’t series books. A Serial Reader’s February books and write up posts.

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1. To Serve A King by Donna Russo Morin. DNF’d @ pg 60.
2. The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton. By far the most interesting book I’ve read this year. I had no idea that it would be a love story, of sorts. Traumatized, mute boy becomes a safe cracking (box man, lock artist) teenager leading a life of crime to save the girl he’s in love with. And his life of crime is facilitated by his girlfriend’s father when the young man is fulfilling his community service sentence for breaking into future girlfriend’s father’s house as part of a prank. Michael’s is a crazy world tilted sideways on its axis. Though the ending wasn’t as satisfying as I’d hoped for I enjoyed this first foray into Mr. Hamilton’s writing. I’m looking forward to reading his back list which you’ll find me writing about over at A Serial Reader because it is a series starring lead character former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight.