This was an overal great book. Although I haven't completly finished the book yet (I have like three pages left) it was totaly amazing. I like Reichs' langiuge alot. She intergrates English with a bit of French to get a very interesting effect. Its like taking purple and buting a little bit of green next to it. It just makes it pop! This is such a hard entry to write! I mostly read the end of the book this week, and I don't want to give anything away. the bigest thing I can tell you without giving the ending away is that Tempe's Quebec apartment window gets exploded. Its was scary, but extermly cool!
Adeus,
Me
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
206 Bones (Kathy Reichs): One of the MOST Fantastic Books I Have EVER Read
And I have read my fair share of books.
One of my favorite things is the tick, tick, tick, tick, tick that is a reocouuring theme (refering to clocks). As I have stated, the book stats with Dr. Brennan in what she thinks is a very small tomb (later she finds that is is slightly larger then she first found it to be, but there is something/one sharing the space with her) Reichs is the absolute queen of cliff hangers. the last sentence in the chapter is always the type of steryotypical last line, but unlike many other cliff hanger style chapters, the "OMG" moment is in the middle of the next chapter. However, one cliff hanger is very confusing. It says that she has found something that is sharing her enclosure. Then the next chapter starts with her talking about cadaver dogs. It was just plain odd, it made me think that she was sharing her tomb with a dead cadaver dog (ohhh the irony!).
One thing I love about Kathy Reichs' books isin't the writing. Its the cover art. It is so very grabbing. They always have something rather interesting. (See the pictures below) The book's cover is of a floater (a bond found in a lake, it has a very interesting decomp pattern). In the begenning, they are talking about Rose Jurmain's murder. they are in Chichago, where Temperance spent her first few years of her childhood, before her day and baby brother died. The assistant patholigist inspecting the death of Rose is infact the childhood friend of Temperance's. (They say that he looks like some guy from like The Brady Bunch or some show I've never watched) Jurmain was not a floater, and therefore is not the person on the cover. (Also, the hand, if it was real, has the structure of a male's hand.) This book in the series, like Bones to Ashes, Temperance is paired with Lieutenant-Decetive Andrew Ryan of the Securite de Quebec, (excuse my lack of accents) as Jurmain's death was tenchachly on Canadian turf. 206 Bones takes place around the end of December and by then there is snow in the windy city. On Ryan's and Brennan's way to O'Hare, they get a handy-dandy call from the airline, reporting that their flight has been canceld until further notice. Temeerance's ex-husband, Pete, has family in Chichago and they ask them if they can stay at their house for the night. Amist the Latvian cooking, a family friend asks Temperance if they have found any remains that match the discription of her step-son, who they call "Lassie". The next day, Tempe has nothing else to do at works and requests to inspect some of the unidentified remains that could match Lassie. Because this is a book, of course, Temperance finds a set that is deemed his. The remains had shown up at a lake near a quary, and he was a floater, like the one on the front cover.
At the end of each of Reichs' last three books, she has an interview or such, and in this book, she has a rant on faulty anthropological identification. I find that it was extremly disturbing. If I was to die in a way that required anthroplogical identification, I definitly would not like to be misidentified. Its like: okay, I'm dead, now yayyy someone identified me as a male negroid (I am a female caucasoid). I hope that no one who that would make that type of error would be allowed in the profession.
One of my favorite things is the tick, tick, tick, tick, tick that is a reocouuring theme (refering to clocks). As I have stated, the book stats with Dr. Brennan in what she thinks is a very small tomb (later she finds that is is slightly larger then she first found it to be, but there is something/one sharing the space with her) Reichs is the absolute queen of cliff hangers. the last sentence in the chapter is always the type of steryotypical last line, but unlike many other cliff hanger style chapters, the "OMG" moment is in the middle of the next chapter. However, one cliff hanger is very confusing. It says that she has found something that is sharing her enclosure. Then the next chapter starts with her talking about cadaver dogs. It was just plain odd, it made me think that she was sharing her tomb with a dead cadaver dog (ohhh the irony!).
One thing I love about Kathy Reichs' books isin't the writing. Its the cover art. It is so very grabbing. They always have something rather interesting. (See the pictures below) The book's cover is of a floater (a bond found in a lake, it has a very interesting decomp pattern). In the begenning, they are talking about Rose Jurmain's murder. they are in Chichago, where Temperance spent her first few years of her childhood, before her day and baby brother died. The assistant patholigist inspecting the death of Rose is infact the childhood friend of Temperance's. (They say that he looks like some guy from like The Brady Bunch or some show I've never watched) Jurmain was not a floater, and therefore is not the person on the cover. (Also, the hand, if it was real, has the structure of a male's hand.) This book in the series, like Bones to Ashes, Temperance is paired with Lieutenant-Decetive Andrew Ryan of the Securite de Quebec, (excuse my lack of accents) as Jurmain's death was tenchachly on Canadian turf. 206 Bones takes place around the end of December and by then there is snow in the windy city. On Ryan's and Brennan's way to O'Hare, they get a handy-dandy call from the airline, reporting that their flight has been canceld until further notice. Temeerance's ex-husband, Pete, has family in Chichago and they ask them if they can stay at their house for the night. Amist the Latvian cooking, a family friend asks Temperance if they have found any remains that match the discription of her step-son, who they call "Lassie". The next day, Tempe has nothing else to do at works and requests to inspect some of the unidentified remains that could match Lassie. Because this is a book, of course, Temperance finds a set that is deemed his. The remains had shown up at a lake near a quary, and he was a floater, like the one on the front cover.
At the end of each of Reichs' last three books, she has an interview or such, and in this book, she has a rant on faulty anthropological identification. I find that it was extremly disturbing. If I was to die in a way that required anthroplogical identification, I definitly would not like to be misidentified. Its like: okay, I'm dead, now yayyy someone identified me as a male negroid (I am a female caucasoid). I hope that no one who that would make that type of error would be allowed in the profession.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
206 Bones by Kathy Reichs
Reich's latest novel, 206 Bones, starts off in a way different from her last two books, Devil Bones and Bones to Ashes. The book opens in an italic font ment to throw you off. It did for me! Dr. Brennan, as we discover has been traped in a cement tomb, berried alive and has no recolection of ever facing her assailant. She does however, with mush effort, remeber the last case whe was working on.
It dealt with murder of Rose Jurmain, a snack food heiress, excommunicated from her family due to their devout Catholicism and her lesbian lifestyle. The family's lawyer claims that the Jurmains received an anonymous telephone call from someone claiming that Dr. Brennan has faked the autopsy results to cover up the "fact" that Rose had been murdered. (Temperance's original findings were that Rose was heavily under the influence of drugs and alcohol and went out for a walk where she got hypothermia and died.)
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Let's have a party! I'm done wih Devil Bones.
Well, its not that I'm happy to be done, I'm happy to start the next book, 206 Bones which is also by the brilliant Kathy Reichs.
If you were hoping I'd tell you who the murderer was, you're wrong! Not that you'd know who I was talking about until of the book because we don't meet him until then. But what I will tell you is that the end was an extreme plot twist!
This book hit home for me in so many ways. First,a I said in the previous post there was the aspect of Wicca. Also, one of the murders was an anti-gay hate crime. I've had affiliations in the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual) for close to three years now and I was just astonished that something like that came up in this book. It reminded me how real these things are.
Overall,this book was a great read and the action really starts as soon as you open the book. I enjoy Reich's writing style a lot and cant wait to blog about 206 bones!
If you were hoping I'd tell you who the murderer was, you're wrong! Not that you'd know who I was talking about until of the book because we don't meet him until then. But what I will tell you is that the end was an extreme plot twist!
This book hit home for me in so many ways. First,a I said in the previous post there was the aspect of Wicca. Also, one of the murders was an anti-gay hate crime. I've had affiliations in the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual) for close to three years now and I was just astonished that something like that came up in this book. It reminded me how real these things are.
Overall,this book was a great read and the action really starts as soon as you open the book. I enjoy Reich's writing style a lot and cant wait to blog about 206 bones!
Friday, October 2, 2009
Happy School Spirit Day! Now Let's Talk About Dead People! (Devil Bones, Kathy Reichs)
I f you could'nt tell from the title, its school spirit day. The seniors wrote on the block of lockers where mine is "Homecoming". I had the C. I erased it. It says "Homeoming" now. =) Anyway, something a tad bit more important: dead poeple!
As youu probaly can tell, the book I'm reading is Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs. Temperance Brennan went to her friends coven metting (a coven is a group of people who come together to pratice Wicca). I quite enjoy Reichs' take on the religion. For a short time, I had explored Alexandrean Wicca. (Wicca has seveal sects, like how cathloics can be prodestant, lutheran, etc.). I found that it was very calming at makes you feel connected to the earth. Reichs tries to show people that paganism is not devil worship. Its purley interesting. Temperance is very calm when she is showed the religion, although she does not belive in it. I think that this book is ofering people an alternative view, as opposed to the one they usualy have because of the religious brainwashing that has occoured it our society.
Think about it.
As youu probaly can tell, the book I'm reading is Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs. Temperance Brennan went to her friends coven metting (a coven is a group of people who come together to pratice Wicca). I quite enjoy Reichs' take on the religion. For a short time, I had explored Alexandrean Wicca. (Wicca has seveal sects, like how cathloics can be prodestant, lutheran, etc.). I found that it was very calming at makes you feel connected to the earth. Reichs tries to show people that paganism is not devil worship. Its purley interesting. Temperance is very calm when she is showed the religion, although she does not belive in it. I think that this book is ofering people an alternative view, as opposed to the one they usualy have because of the religious brainwashing that has occoured it our society.
Think about it.
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