Parkour!

Skin Game 
The Dresden Files #15


by
Jim Butcher

Published May 27, 2014
Read May 31,2014





Alright, here's what I want everyone reading this to do. Go to the library, borrow Storm Front by Jim Butcher, the first novel in the Dresden Files and also the author's first published novel. Now, read the book, fall in love with the characters and then proceed to devour The next 14 books, including his newest novel Skin Game. Revel in the awesome writing,  nerdy references and deep though provoking words written by Jim Butcher.

Long story short....READ THIS SERIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not only am I a complete fan girl at this point, but I have been so impressed by this author, not only for his words but also the little bit he says about himself, mostly that "Jim Butcher turned to writing as a career because anything else probably would have driven him insane." also "resume includes a long list of skills rendered obsolete at least two hundred years ago" That is such a good indicator to me that I'm going to love the books. (Yes I do realize that I'm a fan girl, I have known and accepted this fact a long time ago)

I did love this book, not only the fun little jokes that are inserted throughout (Parkour!) but there were two specific parts of the book that really stuck with me. Not the awesome fight scenes, or Harry once again trying to outsmart the bad guys, or just trying to stay alive.
Stay with me, this one is a little long

"There's power in the touch of another person's hand. We acknowledge it in little ways, all the time. There's a reason human beings shake hands, hold hands, slap hands, bump hands.
It comes from our very earliest memories, when we all come into the world blinded by light and color, deafened by riotous sound, flailing in a suddenly cavernous space without any way of orienting ourselves, shuddering with cold, emptied with hunger, and justifiably frightened and confused. And what changes that first horror, that original state of terror?
The touch of another person's hands.
Hands that wrap us in warmth, that hold us close. Hands that guide us to shelter, to comfort, to food. Hands that hold and touch and reassure us through our very first crisis, and guide us into our very first shelter from pain. The first thing we ever learn is that the touch of someone else's hand can ease pain and make things better.
That's power. That's power so fundamental that most people never realize it exists."

That didn't really hit me until later when I was nursing Odin, the words just spoke with such truth, and stayed with me so much. There is so much comfort in being touched by another human being, and we never really even think about it.

There is just so much from this book that I was so excited to read about, and I can't talk about it because of spoilers and it's killing me a little inside. But I will tell you this, I cannot WAIT for the next book to come out!

Book Review Time!

The Policy
Bentley Little

January 2003
Borrowed from Library







This is only the second B. Little book I've read, the first was awesome, I'd never read anything like it, but this one seemed to follow the same pattern as the first book I read, that caused me to quickly loose interest.

(Please keep in mind I started reading this before I gave birth, so some of the details are fuzzy, but i do believe I remember the important parts, if I'm wrong you can always leave a comment and let me know what you think)


In this book, we follow a man who is on his way to being an ex-husband, looking for a new start and a want to return to his roots. So he moves back to his home city and looks for a new place and finds one that seems perfect, so he immediately signs the lease and plans to move his belongings across the states. A moving truck is rented and his car is left at the new house.
When he returns two days later he finds a crack in his back window and promptly calls the insurance company. The call is odd, the representative asking odd questions and being rude and profane.
From there it slowly declines as the house he's renting is broken into and when the insurance company is called the same rude representative answers with his completely inappropriate questions. This service causes our main man to change insurance companies to one that seems perfect, they have coverage for everything.
The only problem is, if you don't take insurance that is offered to you, you'll soon wish you had.

It sounds like such a great story line, and I'm sure it would be, but I just could not get into it! It seemed to follow the same progression that the book previous I read did (which I loved!)
I'm hoping that waiting a few weeks and reading some different genres will allow me to enjoy the next book of his I try to read.