Be it a book, be it a nook...

A post of a different color for me tonight...

So, my dad has been addicted to NCIS for quite a few years, and last year Jay and I also sadly got hooked as well.  Not just the new episodes, but all the syndication on USA.  Great to have something we enjoy watching together, but bad in that we can't watch it when the kids are around, and find ourselves staying up late to watch a re-run.  I think we have just about watched all of episodes and love the show.  Of course, we always find more fun in it when we recognize places that the team is investigating in VA, as that is where we live.  So as this story goes, in the fall, USA starting promoting a movie on their network, Certain Prey, that starred the main actor from NCIS, Mark Harman.  Let's just say we all were interested to see the movie, and USA definitely did their job by advertising the movie 24/7.  We saw the movie, and thought the main character was much like Mark Harman's character Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs.  A few days later, my dad commented he wouldn't mind reading the book that the movie was based on by John Sanford.  Since my father has never asked for a book that I can recall, and I am really tired of buying him golf balls EVERY Christmas (I mean, really how impersonal is that?), I jumped on the comment.  When we went to Barnes and Nobel to purchase the book, I discovered that this book was something like the 9th book in a series of 15.  So, being the deviant, and oh so sweet daughter that I am, I got my dad the book he requested, and also the first in the series with hopes that he would read the first then want to read all of the books.  And that would be it.  I would have finally have found a unique gift for my dad.  As it happened, I read the back of the book and it sounded interesting.  After all, we had enjoyed the movie too, and I love Mark Harman.  So, I ordered the first book, Rules of Prey, on Jay's Nook, started reading it and was hooked.  I have since read the second book and am now on the third.  And it has been contagious.  Dad read the first book, then Certain Prey, and has now gotten the second book from the Library.  Not to mention my mom is following a book behind him and my husband two behind me.  Who knew?  We have our own little family book club!  The funny thing was I finished the second book late last night (about 3am) and so wanted to talk to my dad about it...because the other two weren't as far along.  But since he was out of town, and was about 50 pages behind me I will have to wait a day or two to talk about it.  Until then, it's been fun! 

Be it a book, be it a nook, or even a Kindle, it's been a great read.