Yes, yes it has been quite awhile since my last post.  I went a few weeks without posting anything (but not without reading).  Then, it got to where I had too many books to post about, and it was daunting.  Then, the books just keep piling up, and the daunti-ness just worse and worse, to where I didn't even want to think about having to review all of the various books (plus, there's a few that I don't even remember reading!).  Finally, I've decided just to do a quick update on a few of the books I've read in the past few months, with just a sentence or two about each one.  So, here goes...:

This was the second book from the author of "Sisters" (which I wrote about below).  This one wasn't quite as good, but I did finish it.

This one is written by an English guy, who decides to investigate what makes up a "psychopath."  It's fairly easy to read, and interesting information about the sort of people who could be classified as such.

I've been working on this one for awhile, and finally finished it.  It's historical, looking at the rise of the FBI through the chase of bank robbers - John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, the Barker Gang and Pretty-Boy Floyd (as well as host of other character's who associated with them).  It was very interesting - now I'm going to watch the movie (recorded off TV, of course) and see how close it is to the book.

I've loved all of Rick Riordan's "heroes" books.  This one is the third in the Egyptian Gods series (known as the Kane Chronicles).  I re-read the first two in the series along with this one.

Stephen King's later books have proven very interesting.  (Some of his earlier ones were very weird.)  In this one, he uses time travel to imagine if JFK's assassination could have been prevented.  The characters are very well-written, and you end up really caring for the main character by the end, and wondering how his life is going to change, or whether he'll be able to keep the new things he's found.

Michael Koryta is one of the best authors I've come across recently.  He has a series of detective novels set in Cleveland (which I think I've blogged about in the past).  In addition, he has a series of free-standing novels, with some very interesting plots.  (I blogged about one of his previous books, So Cold the River, earlier.)  This one is basically a ghost/murder story based in a rural town.  Very interesting, though!

Erik Larson is another one that I've written about before.  He writes a wonderful series of books, where he takes two historically-contemporary events, and weaves the stories together.  This one is about a murder in England and the invention of the wireless telegraph by Marconi.  Another great read by Larson. 

Jeffery Deaver is one of (if not THE) best detective writers out there.  He writes two series of books, one centered around a guy named Lincoln Rhyme in New York City, who's an expert CSI (who's also a quadripalegic, who works out of his house).  The other series is about Kathryn Dance, who's a kinesics expert (i.e., the art of people's body and verbal language).  This is one of the Kathryn Dance novels.  Deaver is great at letting you see how the detectives work, and giving you lots of cool information about the fields, while weaving it through a good whodunit novel. 

Jeffrey Archer's latest series is called the "Clifton Chronicles."  These are the first two books in the series.  (I believe I posted about the first one before - I re-read it when the second one was published.)  Archer is a master at telling family dramas over extended periods of time.  (His book, Kane and Abel, is one of the best I've ever read!).  This one continues that same drama.  The ending is a complete cliffhanger - leaving you wanting to read the next one in the series (but, not entirely surprising - by the end of the book, you knew he was going to leave it the way he did...)

So, that's a short list of what I've been reading.  I'll try and keep up a little better.  I have two interesting ones I'm working on now (in addition to the biography of Washington, that I'm still plugging along with).