It's been a while since i wrote a book review, not because I haven't been reading but because I just haven't made the time to write about it. However the latest book I read One Second After by William R Forstchen was one book I really felt the need/urge to write about. One Second After is a book about an EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) attack on the United States and what the coming hours, days, months, and years would be like if we were attacked. The book is told through the eyes of an ex military man who has turned into a college professor who has two daughters.

Have you ever heard the name George Mallory? Maybe you have if your big into mountain climbing, but my guess is most of you haven't heard of him. Well I know before listening to Paths of Glory I had never heard the name, and now that I have read the book I would love to know more. The basic premise of Paths of Glory is a novel based on a true story about George Mallory an English climber who made a few attempts at climbing Everest and it is unknown if he ever reached the summit.

I have been on a weird phase as of late. The majority of the audio books that I have been listening to have some sort of middle eastern theme to them. Whether it be The Kite Runner or my latest read/listen through of Exile by Richard North Patterson. I bought this book for a number of reasons the two books I wanted to buy were not out yet and secondly it had been one I had contemplated a few times before and just never went through with. So I finally buckled down and picked up Exile for my first 20+ hour read through.

I try not to read the same authors over and over again with my monthly Audible credits, but instead continue to try new authors to get a taste for what I like and don't like. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith was a highly reviewed book on Audible and I had it in my wish list for a bit, but was always a bit skeptical to pull the trigger and purchase it. Well a few weeks I broke down and made this my latest listen/read through and I have to say I was not disappointed.

It probably should tell me right away how much I didn't like a book when I am trying to write the post and all I can remember is the author and not the title. So Audible had a great $9.99 deal for Dean Koontz's latest mystery thriller Your Heart Belongs to Me a short listen about an internet entrepreneur. Sounds perfect right, I at least thought so. I have only read only one Dean Koontz book in my life, in fact it was an audio book way back when on a long drive somewhere on a family vacation. This had to be at least ten years ago and to this day I still remember a lot of that book and so I figured this would be a good way to see if I still liked Dean Koontz as an author.

I am back at Audible.com! And boy does it feel great to be back! They gave me $25 and I have a 30 minute ride to and from work, so it was a perfect match. The first book I bought was Extreme Measures by Vince Flynn one of the more intense reads I have gone through to date. Quite frankly this is a fantastic thriller.