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This month's "moderator recommends" poll resulted in a tie, so we're posting both. Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
Goodreads Choice AwardNominee for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2015)
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781627792127 which can be found here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone. . . .
A convict with a thirst for revenge
A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager
A runaway with a privileged past
A spy known as the Wraith
A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums
A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes
Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first.
This month our poll was a tie, so we are posting both as winners.Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
Elle Cosimano
Finlay Donovan is killing it...except, she’s really not. A stressed-out single mom of two and struggling novelist, Finlay’s life is in chaos: The new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written; her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her; and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an incident with scissors.
When Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer and inadvertently accepts an offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet. She soon discovers that crime in real life is a lot more difficult than its fictional counterpart, as she becomes tangled in a real-life murder investigation.
Fast-paced, deliciously witty, and wholeheartedly authentic in depicting the frustrations and triumphs of motherhood in all its messiness, hilarity, and heartfelt moments.
Jackie wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "Ooh! Ooh! Jackie, I'm picking 
for you. I'm supposed to read it this month but I don't think I'll get to it until next week (my sister and I ar..."Ha! I just bought kindle books for the exact same reason.
Jackie wrote: "Jennifer, there are so many books that look great on your shelf. I am choosing books that have a clever title so that will mean they are probably cozy mysteries. Enjoy your vacation with your siste..."Great picks-- and all series I need to move ahead on! Thank you!
Lance, Jackie texted me some photos re Lexington -- here they are!
It would, and that was a pretty good book, especially if you like Scandinavian noir.
Ooh! Ooh! Jackie, I'm picking
for you. I'm supposed to read it this month but I don't think I'll get to it until next week (my sister and I are in Hollywood doing the tourist thing this week).
Lance, the area I live in isn't Kentucky or Virginia but the county immediately south of me is renowned for horse-racing, and I've never heard of Lexington. I'm going to have to check it out.
Lindsey, thanks for the feedback on Send for Me -- it's on my TBR! Amy, both of those look like thought-provoking picks.
"Um, I learned about exhuming bodies." -- that made me laugh out loud!
Hi, everyone!For anyone unfamiliar, this is a monthly challenge where you post a link to a shelf you created. It can be named "PIFM" or "Pick It For Me" etc, if you want one dedicated only to this challenge, or you can use an existing shelf you already have, as long as it has 100 or fewer books on it. The link must be to the specific shelf, or you will not be partnered.. Indicate how many books you would like to have picked for you from that shelf for the month in question. There is no lower limit as to how many books you can have on your shelf, but, of course, they should be books you are interested in reading during the next month and have ready access to.
On or about the 25th of each month, I will post who picks for whom. In order to accommodate an uneven number of participants, pairs will not be reciprocal -- in other words, it won't be Joanne picking for Jennifer and Jennifer picking for Joanne. It may be Joanne picks for Jennifer, Jennifer picks for Herman, and Herman picks for Suzanne, and someone else entirely picks for Joanne.
IF anyone has not been "picked for" by the 30th, I will pick for them if the designated picker can't be contacted by PM.
When you are assigned someone to pick for, note the number of books in parentheses after that person's name in the pick list, go to the link for their shelf, and pick that number of books for them. Post the books in a new message here. That person has the entire following month to read his/her picks. Someone will be picking for you the same way. We all like to see what people think about their picks, so we hope you will keep us posted in this thread!
Example: "In for five, please!
PIFM"
The HTML template for linking your shelf can be found HERE and if you have trouble, PM me and I will help you.
Your designated shelf must be set so that others can see it. To set up a PIFM shelf for those who would like to, go to the "MY BOOKS" link in the GOODREADS toolbar, scroll down below your shelves on the left until you see the "add shelf" button, and click that. Name it PIFM or Pick It For Me. Add books to it, and post the link to it in this challenge as described above. Again, if you need help, please don't hesitate to PM me!
If you are in for September, post your shelf and the number of picks you'd like to have below. See you on picking day!
September pairs
Denise picks 3 for Lance
Joy picks 2 for Denise
Jennifer picks 1 for Jackie
Jackie picks 5 for Jennifer
Lance pick 3 for Joy
The colors for the September 2023 Color Challenge are dark gray or mustard yellow -- looking forward to seeing your picks!
Hi!It's time to nominate non-fiction books for our fourth quarter 2023 NF group read. The nominations thread will be open through the 31st.
On September 1st, I'll put up a poll. The winner will be announced on September 15, which should give everyone who is interested some time to get the book if they are interested in starting it on October 1st.
Let the nominations begin!
Cont.
- I parsed this one out of the true crime group because she talks about a largely silent epidemic and I found it riveting.
- I separated this one from the true crime also, because it happened in my home town, and was investigated by people I work/worked with.
- good but horrifying story!
- wild ride and enlightening read.
- Also enlightening and a good reminder!
- love me some Old West.
-- SHARKS!
-- Good but not much in it I didn't already know.
- Man it's disappointing how much Truman wasted his talent.
- I find financial histories fascinating.
I'm woefully behind on updating this with my latest NF reads: First, a bunch of true crime because it was free on audible, most of which was about as "meh" as you'd expect true crime to be (my expectations are low...):
A few Kennedy-esque memoirs or bios:
(absolutely skip the last one if you're contemplating any of these...)A few royal bios and memoirs:
A few film/Hollywood/music bios/memoirs:
Some theater/Broadway books, the first three of which I really liked, the last was irritating:
Three Ann Patchett memoirs, all of which I liked. Truth & Beauty was a re-read after I read the others, because I wanted to see if my opinion of Lucy had changed in the intervening years. It hadn't. I thought she was selfish and shallow the first time I read it and I still think that.
WWII/Holocaust
Politics (I especially liked 1932 and Why We Did It):
Social Justice/Civil Rights (skip Uneasy Street, imho):
A couple of AIDS memoirs:
Standouts or Odds & Ends:
-sad but heartwarming.
- nowhere near as good as I'd hoped, since my family just went through this.
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, all of which I liked and all of which I read because of Lance....
The science in this one wowed me.
-All wonderful science reads!
-excellent story I had been unfamiliar with.
- Nora Ephron -- 'Nuf said!
- she was feisty and I was not pleased with how she ended up!
- after reading this, I don't care if he killed himself, long as he's dead.
- enlightening *and* depressingI'm about to run out of characters in this post....
Kristine - boy do I feel you regarding having books that aren't on lists -- I'm surprised at how often I start a book I know I've had for a while only to discover it's not on TBR!I read Mukherjee's "The Song of the Cell: The Transformation of Medicine and the New Human last month and liked it but not as much as I liked his "Emperor" or "The Gene" -- although I have to say "Song" is the logical next off-shoot after those two! If you like Mukherjee, I highly recommend Atul Gawande. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End and Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science.
I'm glad you posted here because I have forgotten to update this thread! Stand by for the next installment....
OK, Denise, that edition's cover is just *creepy* and looks exactly right for it, too!
Aug 13, 2023 09:37AM
I don't - when I say they implemented it after I started, I mean it was likely ten or more years after. My agency used to be tiny -- literally, a guy I worked with when I first started who had only been there ten years or so at the time told me that the day they hired *him* (which would have been the mid-70s), they gave him a uniform, gun belt and car keys and told him to show up for midnight shift -- no academy, no formal training, just him and three other deputies to cover a thousand square miles, and OJT for him. Those were very different days. Today we do them for all sworn positions, corrections positions and 9-1-1 center positions (that's where I worked either full- or part-time for the first 22 years of my career). We may do them for other civilian positions: I don't know. I know they have a scale your answers fall into and I suspect it's 1 through 5 because I've heard 2.5 is the cutoff.
But it's not flawless. We've had to fire a couple of people who were clearly unsuited psychologically or behaviorally (including one with seriously violent ideations), and we've had a couple of suicides in the last six years. One of the latter was I suspect mostly situational, but the other was someone who'd been battling issues for years. I suspect anyone who wants to can find sample psych evals on line and so forth and play with them until they know how to give "passing" answers well enough to sneak in.
As for me -- by the time they started doing them, they'd either figured out I'm not crazy, *OR* -- more likely -- decided I was the kind of crazy they could live with.
As I recall, I had to take a hearing test (9-1-1, you know... it's nice if you can actually HEAR them screaming for help...), a typing test, a polygraph and *maybe?* a drug test? I'm sure there was a drug test but I have no memory of it at all.
Those and an interview and off I went, also to a strictly OJT training situation. My very first call ever was a guy who came home and found his wife had committed suicide by putting her head in a plastic bag.
We're much bigger now. We handle 9-1-1 for five agencies, law enforcement and fire/rescue. Half a million phone calls a year, 300,000 of them resulting in someone being sent out. Extensive formal classroom training on both sides of the equation (i.e. the 9-1-1 side and the responder side).
