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Enjoying Black Maria a lot as well.



The Wolf Almanac, New and Revised: A Celebration of Wolves and Their World
Robert H. Busch
Very engaging! I can barely put it down! It provides a great overview of every aspect of the wolf's behavior and historical relationship to humans.

Great! I hope you like it.



So barmy. (British, eh wot?) A newspaper reporter and a poet/cop on the trail of a dodgy American evangelist. I was braying with laughter, but then I also adored Benny Hill's soliloquies. (What I could understand of them, at least.)


Most of the movies followed the plot pretty well, but the book is a whole new experience -- especially the dialog which is filled with English slang of the period (and often leaves me wondering what it means).
The pretty islands they used in the movies are replaced by a foreboding, dark land with swamps and a dense forest. I'm just under 1/2 way through it.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


I totally recommend The Eighth Day (bullet time meets manchurian candidate)

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Man at the Wheel (PTL Club / british-style)

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And All that we touch (read it for the beauty of the prose and the dream-like mystery)

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
All of these came to me from Net Galley.



Pretty darn good and has me feeling a bit high on fantasy. lol
Think I'll pick up a contemporary book after.

just starting rogue waves. cant wait to see where it goes.

Great! I hope you like it."
Lance, great read, IMHO. I really like the way you separated the various viewpoints during the action scenes. Have other readers had comments about that particular method for keeping straight what is happening by viewpoint? Review in at GR and will post to Amazon.


Other readers have mentioned that they don't have problems following even the busier action scenes. I tried to get across the inherent confusion of big multi-player fights without actually confusing readers -- it's good to know I succeeded.
Thanks for your kind words, and thanks for posting reviews! Every one helps. If you haven't already, you might take a look at my other book to see if it interests you.


Now reading The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley, an interesting mystery with a 11 year old protagonist, 2nd in a series it turns out.

Flowering Death

A good four star offering:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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