Media Check

<center></center> ---------------------------- Despite the hectic place of life lately, I have been finding the time to consume a bit of media. In fact, I've probably read more books over the past twelve months than I have read in the past twelve years. In addition to that, @mrsbozz and I have been watching our usual slate of shows on TV as time allows. I thought I might take a minute in and share some of those books and shows with you in this post today. As I said, I have been reading a lot more lately, so much so, that my wife decided it would be a good idea to get me a Kindle Paperwhite for my upcoming 50th birthday. I honestly had no problem reading books on my phone, but she felt I needed something "better for my eyes" I think she put it. The fact is, I have gotten to the point where I have been reading a physical book and an electronic book simultaneously. If you told my family that, they would probably laugh at you as they can attest to how "reading adverse" I was growing up. <center> </center> ------------------------- #### Bosch As far as physical books go, I have been working through the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly. You might be familiar with Bosch from the successful Amazon Prime series starting Titus Welliver. Having watched the entire series, I was worried the books might be too similar, but that definitely isn't the case. There are some pretty significant differences between the books and the show that make it easy to pick them up and read them without feeling like you have been through this before. They did a lot of side character development in the show that make sense for TV, but not so much for books. There are a ton of books in the series and I think I am only on the fourth one right now. We keep picking them up cheap at used bookstores or from the [Thriftbooks](https://www.thriftbooks.com/) website. They have been in print long enough that you usually don't have to pay more than a couple dollars for them. If I were a faster reader, I would just check them out from the library, but I know I wouldn't be able to finish them without having to renew the book several times. <center></center> ------------------------------- #### Muirwood On the Kindle side of things, I just finished a series of books called The Dawning of Muirwood by Jeff Wheeler. The first book is called The Druid, and there are two more books in the series. This is actually a prequel series to some other series that he has. After finishing these three books, I thought about reading some of the other ones, but I decided to hold off. If you are looking for a decent story about someone coming into their own magical powers, I would recommend this series, but I don't think you are going to find any themes that haven't been covered before. It's pretty run of the mill stuff with a few unique twists here and there. #### Nightfall After I finished those books, I started reading a science fiction book called Nightfall. It actually started off as a short story written by Isaac Asimov back in 1941, but more recently Robert Silverberg has worked to build it into a complete book. I am about 70% done with it at this point and it has been a really fascinating read. The basic premise is that these people live on a plant with something like five or six suns, so it is basically daytime all the time, when darkness finally comes, how will they handle it? This book has been really good to read and I can understand why it is such a classic. I also understand why they felt the rest of the story needed to be told. I'm glad I pick […]