But I don’t feel we just stopped and talked about the weather or the countryside, not really. You can’t, because I love the language you’re using and the way that you’re using it. Tell me about the Irish countryside, I thought.

I liked it, I respected it, I was ready to trust where it was going to lead me. Right from the beginning, I knew I was going to like it, because I connected to the voice. I could agree to spend, say $100 a month, on books and at the end of said month, the Book-Love-o-Meter would spit out a percentage and Scrap Metal would have a lot of percentage points, that’s all I’m saying. However, the free part was the driving force.Īnd I know this doesn’t really make sense in any sort of economic structure, but wouldn’t it be awesome if books could be afforded their cost based on how much enjoyment they give or emotions they evoke or how many times they’ll be re-read? Right now I’ll buy some book at $9.99 and DNF it halfway through and the money is gone, but this book, even though I loved it, is still free. I saw that it had great ratings and I’d seen the author’s name before, so it wasn’t a totally random one-click drive-by. I picked up Scrap Metal by Harper Fox because it was free. When there’s death in a book, I’m out.īut when it comes to these sorts of “I never read this”, there’s nothing more satisfying to me than being wrong wrong wrong. When reviews say how the author captured the setting and the beauty of it, snooze.

While I certainly have loved some of them (LaVyrle Spencer comes to mind) most of the time I end up bored.

Robert Lee Harper, 19, of Lochaven Place in Newport News has been charged with robbery, destruction to property, abduction, maiming, obstruction, resisting arrest, two counts of larceny, three counts of burglary, four counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and 10 counts of conspiracyĪthanasius Vozikis, 20, of Creedmoor Court in Williamsburg, has been charged with destruction to property, burglary, robbery, and maiming, two counts of abduction and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and 10 counts of conspiracy.Īnthony John Weyen, 19, of Don Juan Drive in York County has been charged with robbery, burglary, destruction to property, abduction and maiming, four counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and nine counts of conspiracy.ĭonavan Grant McRae, 22, of Coral Court in Newport News, has been charged with maiming, abduction, destruction to property, burglary and robbery, four counts of use of a firearm in commission of a felony and nine counts of conspiracy.Whenever I hear a book is a slow burn, I run in the opposite direction.