Week Eighteen - 34 To Go

Read an ebook edition. It’s Jack Reacher. Entertaining. Fast paced. The good guys win. Like Jack’s aliases - old baseball players’ names.

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Week Seventeen - 35 To Go

A standalone thriller. Plenty of suspense. A number of action sequences à la The Perils of Pauline. But two questions: Where has Natalie been for the last six years? How did Natalie learn to shot a gun so well?

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Week Sixteen - 36 To Go

Not written for the faint-of-heart Irish. Talty’s thriller/psychological suspense novel depicts the Irish a shade darker than Abbie’s Saab. The backstory adds a punch to the narrative that resolves perhaps too quickly at the conclusion of the novel. Talty’s dark intentions for his first novel did good.

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Mallards

One never knows what to expect while walking early in the morning. Today as I made my way around the asphalt walkway at Casey Park spotted two Mallards gliding across a puddle. The puddle was just behind the bleachers along the first base line of Field #2.

My movement towards the ducks flushed them from the puddle.

The female posed for the camera.

Vermont Accessible Birding Sites

Vermont birder Bryan Pfeiffer has started a Google map of birding sites for birders with limited mobility. Bryan maintains a web site and can be reached by email.

American Goldfinch

Great to have this bird visiting the backyard feeders again.

Week Fifteen - 37 To Go

Plot resembles a labyrinth. But do not give up. Alex and Milo get you through.

Read 52 Books in 52 Weeks in 2013