Eight Millon Books to Read

4 out of 5 Pistols An endorsement of this book might be that it wasn't even the one I intended to read next. I just happened to pick it up and have a look over the first few lines as I am sometimes wont to do. This look turned into reading the first chapter, then the second chapter and then I was reeled in. The book introduces us to the McGraw family, who have been driving and delivering goods for the Stanley crime family for a century. Octogenarian, Calvin McGraw, is the patriarch of the family and is struggling with his retirement out in Omaha. His son, Webb, still works for the Stanleys and is tasked with delivering a truckload of unprocessed meth. Tucker McGraw, Webb's son, has diverged from the family tradition and ia a divorced insurance salesman with visitation rights every other weekend. Webb goes missing with his cargo and this brings one of Stanley's men to Tucker's door to inform him the $10 million debt is now his. Tucker calls his Granddad C...

There was a time not long ago when I deemed myself unworthy of writing book reviews thinking I wasn't learned enough or that I didn't have enough to say. I had an attitude adjustment when I saw a tweet saying how much of a benefit reviews are to authors and this sent me forth into action. This blog is basically an extension of this idea to share my reviews outwith the confines of Goodreads and Amazon and try to champion the books I'm reading. You might recognise the inspiration for the title of the blog as being "Eight Million Ways to Die" by Lawrence Block and the reason for this is that this book and series sent me on the path to almost exclusively reading crime fiction. Before this I was a huge fan of the Pelecanos, Lehane and Winslow among others, but I was never sure who else in the crime fiction hemisphere I would enjoy. I tended to read a lot more literary fiction, but I had grown a bit bored of it. Lawrence Block showed me the way. The next evolution o...