Welshrogue

1. If you had to set your own work schedule; 8 hours per day; 5 days per week.  Which days and hours would you choose?

Flexible time so I could work when the kids are sleeping, and also when my wife is working, so more time with them.

2. What Reality Show would you be on and why?

Can’t think of a single one.

3. What is the last book you read?

The Lincoln Lawyer – Michael Connelly

4. There are many songs that bring us back to a certain memory.  What song(s) do you HATE to hear for that very reason?

All the sappy songs I listened to when I was a teen, unable to find love, unable to get a date, unable to stop squeezing zits…..

5. If you could go back in time to be any place in world history, what time would you choose and what country/place?

To quote Bill & Ted, ‘The best time is now, the best place is right here’

6. Do you know more than one language?  Which one(s).

English and bad English?

7. What is your favorite blog? Please link it.  One only.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/

8. What is your favorite web site?

http://www.joblo.com

9. Your house is on fire, the people and pets you love are safe and you can grab one other “thing”, what are you taking?

My paperbacks, all 500 or so of them…

10. You have $100 to spend in the next hour. How are you spending it?  (Saving it or giving it away not permitted.)

Buying books, that was easy!!

A defense attorney who doesn’t use an office, but rather Lincoln Town cars to meet his clients gets a big case, a case that will pay him handsomely but one that will make him question who is evil and who is innocent.

Michael Connelly’s first courtroom drama is a blockbuster. Not only does he create one of the best courtroom trials I have read but he does it with pace, knowledge and Connelly’s usual style.

Mickey Haller is great as the lead character. Honest to a point, he is a lawyer after all. He handles his cases with believability that helps the plot work. The other characters are just as good.

While I sometimes drew comparisons with Sheldon Siegel’s novels, The Lincoln Lawyer didn’t incorporate or need the humour that Siegel’s books use. Different writing styles on the same subject.
While I love the Harry Bosch novels, I believe that Mickey Haller would be a great character to base additional books on. I, for one, would certainly buy them.