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Predictable ending but strong up until then.
Here's my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


This novel - about families, politics, science, economics and decaying houses - focuses on two very different families that lived in a New Jersey town 150 years apart.
Good story. 3.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


Nero Wolfe #14, OK to read as stand-alone. It's always nice to spend some time again with Archie, Nero, and the gang but this effort tastes like lite beer. The title is much too on-the-nose, the dialogue is stilted and the plot resolution is almost non-existent. I know Stout's daughters OKed this series but this one's a disappointment. 3 stars because it's Archie and Nero but it's really 2.


The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (strange so far)
Wall Of Eyes by Margaret Millar (very interesting, flowing nicely)


She's a favourite of mine, Patty. I've been searching for her books for a few years now..

http://www.syndicatebooks.com/booksto...


Nero Wolfe #14, OK to read as stand-alone. It's always nice to spend some time again with Archie, Ne..."
I love Nero and Archie. ❤


In this fourth 'Culinary Mystery', Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier investigates two murders and an abduction. The book can be read as a standalone.
Includes fun descriptions of food and wine. 3 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


Thanks for the link.


Mma Ramotswe takes a little vacation while Mma Makuski runs the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency for a couple of weeks. As usual, a number of clients are helped.
It's always a treat to visit with the favorite characters in this series. 4 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I was in the middle of a book that hasn't been published yet and really liking it. Then I lost it. I found it this morning, in the sheets I'd just washed:

There is nothing quite like a shelf full of books... I do find it frustrating when people bend books out of shape.. I'm guilty sometimes I must admit, but not for books I want to keep.. I hope anyway.. :)

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Next in line is a cozy mystery, Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage (Reissue): 0 by M.C. Beaton

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Interesting. Our company left a book in a set of the sheets they used, too.. lol.. It wasn't in too good shape
Bill wrote: "Nancy wrote: "I was in the middle of a book that hasn't been published yet and really liking it. Then I lost it. I found it this morning, in the sheets I'd just washed:
Normally I'm really good at shaking things out before they get tossed into the washer, but I must have got sidetracked or something. I was horrified, but then all that was left was to laugh at myself. And vacuum the washing machine.
Normally I'm really good at shaking things out before they get tossed into the washer, but I must have got sidetracked or something. I was horrified, but then all that was left was to laugh at myself. And vacuum the washing machine.


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

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I've put a bunch of things through the laundry inadvertently, but never a book -- at least not yet. (Knock on wood) Hopefully you can get another copy.
Deb wrote: "Nancy wrote: "I was in the middle of a book that hasn't been published yet and really liking it. Then I lost it. I found it this morning, in the sheets I'd just washed:
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I've put a bunch of ..."
I emailed right away after trying to buy a copy and discovering it's not published until April, sending that same photo. The publisher was so kind and offered to send another -- I had asked for an e-format because I'm sure that I wouldn't be putting my kindle in the wash.
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I've put a bunch of ..."
I emailed right away after trying to buy a copy and discovering it's not published until April, sending that same photo. The publisher was so kind and offered to send another -- I had asked for an e-format because I'm sure that I wouldn't be putting my kindle in the wash.

Currently reading two books one for my book club and the other just a book I got from my library which I was reading before.
Black wood by sji Holliday and the day we meet again by Miranda Dickinson



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I've put..."
My washing pet peeve is the overlooked tissue left in the pocket of something in the dark wash. No matter how many times I check pockets and sleeves, the odd one still sneaks through.
As for missing pages, I was reading an old yellowed paperback of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, and it wasn't until I was near the end and the plot wasn't wrapping up that I realised the last pages were missing! Luckily, it's such an old book that I managed to find a website that was discussing the ending so I could read it - whew! Now I'm inclined to look for the last page and squint (don't want to see spoilers!) to make sure it says The End or similar. :)

Darkness for Light is the third in the series.




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Relic was entertaining that's for sure.
PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Nancy wrote: "Deb wrote: "Nancy wrote: "I was in the middle of a book that hasn't been published yet and really liking it. Then I lost it. I found it this morning, in the sheets I'd just washed:
"..."
been there, done that (the tissue I mean).
:)
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been there, done that (the tissue I mean).
:)

‘A very readable crime thriller about ‘hot ice’ that you can take out again, dust off, and let ‘sparkle round your little finger..’
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started reading:

The Vengeful Virgin by Gil Brewer
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