Intro

Since this is my first foray into the world of blogging, I thought I'd start with a bit of an introduction. I'm Nic. I have many interests and opinions and I think I'll share them here. This should be an interesting experience and I think my kids might enjoy looking at what their dad thought about things when they're older. We'll see...

One of my great passions is reading. I love books! Mostly, I enjoy reading novels. Historical fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, adventure, pretty much anything except romance. Basically, I'm a sucker for a good story. I can't really enjoy a TV show if I don't watch all of the episodes because I need to know the story. I even stick with some bad shows because I want to know the story. Anyway, I'm reading a great book right now called "The Venetian Betrayal" by Steve Berry. Mr. Berry is one of my new favorite authors, but skip the first book he wrote called "The Amber Room"...it was a good story, but was a little too vulgar. I almost didn't read his other books because of that one. Now, I'm glad that I gave him another try. "The Romanov Prophecy", "The Third Secret", "The Templar Legacy", "The Alexandria Link", and now "The Venetian Betrayal" have all been great!

"The Venetian Betrayal" is the third book to feature Cotton Malone. I think I have a personal interest in Cotton because he moved from the States to Copenhagen, Denmark. It was a lot of fun to read "The Templar Legacy" and envision the sites in Copenhagen that the characters visit since my family went to Denmark in June 2006. Cotton chases one character up a tower that I walked up and have pictures of the top. It's fun. Without giving too much away about this one, in "Betrayal", Cotton, a retired federal agent, again starts in Denmark and reluctantly heads out on an adventure to help out his friends.

Berry's books always have an interesting "what if?..." factor with an interesting twist of actual world events. The creation of the Central Asian Federation as an Asian nation of former Soviet Republics creates new and interesting situations for the characters to deal with. I plan to finish up with this one tomorrow...I guess that's today with as late as I'm writing this...Check it out!