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I thought I'd step away from mysteries for a while and started White Horse by Erika T. Wurth and, whattaya know, it's kind of a mystery, with a ghost.
PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Robert Dugoni's latest, Her Deadly Game, is a courtroom drama with a good investigative dilemma at the heart and a most intriguing solution.[bookcover:Her Deadly Gam..."
Patty this link doesn't go to your review.
Recently finished The Double Bind, the second book by Loraine Peck and a strong Australian mobster crime story that challenges its characters to decide between family and the job.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have read The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII. I recommend it. Gave it 3 stars, but it contained a lot to prefer over other content. The entire series is unique; it is as if parts of Wikipedia were written by a scholar, which Will Durant certainly was.
Luffy wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Robert Dugoni's latest, Her Deadly Game, is a courtroom drama with a good investigative dilemma at the heart and a most intriguing solution...."
Thanks, Luffy, and Barb for pointing out the broken link - oops!
My original post had a broken link, so here it is again.
Robert Dugoni's latest, Her Deadly Game, is a courtroom drama with a good investigative dilemma at the heart and a most intriguing solution.
3.5~4★ My review of Her Deadly GameIf you're a NetGalley reviewer, it's on NetGalley until 11 April.
One of America's most celebrated black authors, James Baldwin wrote Sonny's Blues in 1957 about Harlem, drugs, music, and two brothers. Another memorable Baldwin story.
5★ My review of Sonny's Blues with a link to the story online
A Good Man Is Hard To Find: Short Story by Flannery O'Connor is a thought-provoking and startling story that has nothing to do with someone seeking romance! 
5★ My review of A Good Man is Hard to Find with a link to the story online
Hang the Moon
just went on my best of 2023 list. My five star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille
An absolutely terrific book. DeMille’s novel has some of the most descriptive and elegantly written words I’ve read in a long time.
Killing Floor by Lee Child
A Dead Man in Malta
by Michael PearceSeymour of the Yard #7. Malta 1913. A German and 2 English sailors are dead and Sandor Seymour is sent by the Foreign Office to Malta to investigate. Charming and fascinating like the rest in the series but watch out for the names. I thought this was one of the better entries in the series -- 4 stars.
End of the 1st quarter 2023. For the first time I'm keeping track of how much reading I do. This quarter -- 21 books.
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Now starting LIE IN THE DARK, the first novel in the Vlado Petric series set in Sarajevo in the mid 90's during the Yugoslav Wars, by Dan Fesperman.
The Way They Were: How Epic Battles and Bruised Egos Brought a Classic Hollywood Love Story to the Screen by Robert HoflerThis book is all about the making of the movie 'The Way We War', a 1973 romantic drama starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford.
Good book for film buffs in general, and people interested in HUAC and the blacklist.
3.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just read this great San Diego-based noir story by Matt Phillips, an author I really like.To Bring My Shadow
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Now I can turn the tv back on.
Read Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Promise of Ankles
by Alexander McCall SmithThis humorous series follows the lives of a group of people who reside in Edinburgh's "New Town" neighborhood. In this book, new residents move in and other fresh characters show up as well.
Fun book. 3.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Highly recommend I Have Some Questions For You
. My 4.5 star review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Hello Beautiful is the catch-phrase of the father of four sisters in Ann Napolitano's latest novel, which covers about fifty years. Love, anger, strong differences of opinion, even death - it's all here.
3.5~3★ My review of Hello Beautiful
Revelation is a 1964 short story by Flannery O'Connor about a bigoted woman in the US South who is forced to face a rather uncomfortable truth.
3.5~4★ My review of Revelation with a link to the story itself.
Currently reading Shutter by Ramona Emerson (it just won a Lefty award). Just finished Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King (it's wonderful).
Not the Ones Dead
by Dana StabenowAlaskan private investigator Kate Shugak investigates the reason for a mid-air collision between two small planes.
Nice to read a series set in Alaska. Good story. 3.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Downfall by Mark Rubinstein is a psychological thriller that starts with a doctor returning to his office to find a murder had occurred outside it's doors and the murdered man was his doppelganger. From here the mind games start.Here's my review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Midnight at the Blackbird Café by Heather Webber ⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Bad Actors
by Mick HerronSlough House/Slow Horses #8, probably best to read in order. This is the latest in the series and Herron continues to turn out the finest spy/espionage writing there is. This is thriller writing of the highest order. 5 stars.
My review of The Crowded Grave: A Mystery of the French Countryside by Martin Walker
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Darkly funny but runs out of steam halfway into the book. It makes perversion beautiful and vulgarity tender. Rating - 3/5
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
[Fancy following Nabokov with this!]Of course I knew of Louis Pasteur, but I had no idea he was responsible for preventing so many diseases (not to mention first figuring out what was spoiling French wines! 😊).
Another great one for the kids (and their ignorant grown-ups).
5★ My review of Louis Pasteur with several illustrations
The Short Story Club group is reading some classic short stories I've missed. I loved Nikolai Gogol's funny and sad The Overcoat, a famous Russian story, often claimed to be the best of its kind. 
5★ My review of The Overcoat
I read The Postcard by Anne Berest It is historical fiction, set in France. Originally published in French, now available in English. I recommend it to anyone interested in the Holocaust and how it affected France.My 4 star review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Rating: 4 stars
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Father and Son by Larry Brown