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May 14, 2021 01:35PM
Currently rereading Arsenic in the Azaleas
byDale Mayer to brush up my memory before I read the next two books to this series.
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I finished
A Gambling Mantoday, Loved it! First time ever reading David Baldacci! Now I'm sttarting The Silent Patient
Here is my review of a dark, disturbing, and atmospheric crime novel. It's for Where the Truth Lies
by Anna Bailey. My 4 star review of this debut novel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Russia House by John le Carré - about the possible end of the Cold War.My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3990224886
I just started A Morbid Taste for Bones
by Ellis Peters (I can't remember who this is a pen name for right now).
I finished a historical romance: About a Rogue
by Caroline Linden. This is the first novel in the Desperately Seeking Duke series and I received it in a Goodreads Giveaway.My 4 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm still reading a collection of 10 short stories that I am enjoying. I should get started on the 6th one read today.
The Smoking Gun Sisterhood by Thad Brown. I'm also reading
Secret Enemy by Katie Reus.
A Stranger at the Door by Jason Pinter - #2 book with Rachel Marin, a widowed 30-something mother victim-turned-vigilanteMy review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4002217739
Here is my 3 star review of an entertaining and steadily paced cozy mystery.The Secret Staircase
by Sheila Connollyhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Blacktop Wasteland is where author S.A. Cosby's Beauregard 'Bug' Montage earned his reputation as a high-speed wheelman and risks everything for one last job. Promise. Yeah, right.
5★ Link to my review of Blacktop Wasteland
I'm having trouble with the three books I started (The Cat Who Played Post Office, A Morbid Taste for Bones, and A Plague of Giants). Just not in the mood and need something different I think. I just started a historical novel, Mr. Churchill's Secretary
by Susan Elia MacNeal, and so far it's fantastic.
Okay, Mr. Churchill's Secretary was really good and I finished it already. Back to A Plague of Giants.
Just finished
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin - gripping and poignantReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've hardly read at all the past few weeks. Real life has been pretty busy.I am now reading The Newcomer
, which is fun. It is the first book I've read by Mary Kay Andrews and it's more of a beach read. I'm enjoying it.
Mary wrote: "Okay, Mr. Churchill's Secretary was really good and I finished it already. Back to A Plague of Giants."I know just how you feel, Mary. Sometimes I have to have a few books on the go just to suit my mood, especially if there is a lot of violence that I don't want to go to sleep on!
William Faulkner was a giant of American Literature (with a capital L!), and I just enjoyed his short story A Rose for Emily. It's about an elderly widow who gets more and more reclusive and peculiar.
4★ Link to my Rose for Emily review with a link to the story.
Another cute Story Without Words, Polar Bear Bowler: A Story Without Words by Karl Beckstrand. I can imagine little kids making up dialogue and "telling the stories" themselves.
4★ LInk to my review of Polar Bear Bowler with enough of the pictures to get the idea of the story.
I am currently reading "If Books Could Kill" by Kate Carlisle which is the second book in the Bibliophile Mystery services. I am still working on "A Clash of Kings" by George R. R. Martin.
I'm currently reading The Trials of Apollo The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan and I'm almost finished with it.
A Summoner had a pretty free rein in 14th century England. He could decide you were guilty of something and summon you to court - unless of course you bribed him. And he never paid for anything. Who would dare charge him? In The Summoner's Sins, author Keith Moray continues his series, which is pretty gruesome.
3★ Link to my review of The Summoner's Sins
The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land by Gardner Bovingdon - relevant background for current eventsMy review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3986033911
I finished a light romantic suspense novel: In the Bodyguard's Arms
by Lisa Childs.My 3 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished an excellent book of action-packed short stories: The Smoking Gun Sisterhood
by Thad Brown.My 4 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just finished 1984
by George Orwell and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon. I really liked the last one, while I found the first one a bit slow, but still pretty enjoyable. Next I'm going to read Circe
by Madeline Miller.
I finished A Plague of Giants, and even though the ending was decent, I can't give it more than two stars. The constantly changing perspective and jumping from event to event was chaotic and hard to understand.Next up I'm working on The Silver Pigs
by Lindsey Davis, a mystery set in the early Roman Empire that seems interesting so far.
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, narrated by the author Anthony Bourdain - seeing the brash, profane, yet witty Bourdain during his early years. My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4011406457
The Siege: 68 Hours Inside The Taj Hotel by Adrian Levy - a description and indictment of the "26/11" terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4011407414
I finished The Silver Pigs and really got sucked in part way through. The ending kept me guessing. I just got my copy of The Guncle by Steven Rowley
and I'm really excited to start it!
fra wrote: "I just finished . . . and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.."Same here, fra!
After many years, I loved my second reading of a favourite, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which won author Mark Haddon many awards. Young Christopher is a persistent, special, very trying kid. Love him!
5★ Link to my Curious Incident ... review
I just enjoyed NZ/Aussie author Jacqueline Bublitz's new mystery, narrated by a murdered girl, that should stir up some good book club conversations, Before You Knew My Name.
3.5~4★ Link to my review of Before You Knew My Name
Mary wrote: "... I just got my copy of The Guncle by Steven Rowley
and I'm really excited to start it!"I was unaware of this book. It looks great and I just checked my library and they have it! :) Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
I finally got around to starting Serpent and Dove. Still on the fence about Lou. She can be so stinkin' mean to Reid sometimes! Here's hoping she softens up or Reid actually defends himself in a way that shocks her into silence or something...
Just finished the ARC of My brother Ben by Peter Carnavas ( published in September). A lovely little Australian domestic fiction about brothers, birds, and a competition to win a boat. Ages 7/8+.
I finished a mystery If Shadows Could Tell: an Aurora Steller mystery novel
by Granthana Sinha.My 3.5 star review rounded to 3 stars: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
So excited about this new book!!! Here is a preview!There is a witness to the automobile crash that killed Princess Diana, Dodi AlFayed, and Henri Paul! Her name is Ms. C.V. Green.
Learn more in her new memoir "Reading, Righting, and Alunatic." Presale information can be found here https://rebrand.ly/s9yg19y
I finished
Eat a Peach by David Chang. I didn't need to be in the food industry to find this Korean American restauranteur's memoir to be interesting. Part of my motivation for reading this was also for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4018182454
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