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After finishing my second Freida McFadden aka Sara Cohen novel I checked other female Thriller writers; it’s astounding Gillian Flynn has only written three!! Not surprisingly, “Gone Girl” was, and remains, one of my favorite all-time thrillers.
So, while I’m waiting for a couple of other books to be available, I’m gonna charge through both of Flynn‘s books. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Libby audio books!!!

Absolute fan-FUCin-tastic Common Sense advice how to treat others, mutual admiration and praise for the dozens who got him there! Oh, and he’s getting funnier!!

MFM’s Hard-to-Kill Karen Kilgarrif and Georgia Hardstark would have a field day with Trisha getting involved with somebody with this many RED FLAGS but I know there’ll be twists. If it’s anything like the first book of McFadden’s that I read, “Dear Debbie” and P.L. is who I think s(he) is, and perhaps elements of Charlotte McConaghy’s “Wild Dark Shore”, then this will have some welcoming turns.

Ron Swanson is 88% Nick Offerman. Yet, far less laissez-faire attitudes when it comes to political or social involvement and far more of health-conscious regarding foodstuffs - though “Parks and Recs” entire slant on all things FOOD was hilariously warped.
Regardless, not quite as LoL funny as others Comedians’ Memoirs (only a quarter in), yet very insightful and I’m looking forward to more from Offerman.

One-fifth in and I’m not sure why the Perp is after a teen African American young woman? Perhaps land / property ownership? Inheritance?
Intrigued!
She’s shown Amelia Sach-like creativity in escaping UnSub initially and, should she live, it’d be great for her to possibly become part of the team 10 or 12 years from the time of this story…?

Fascinating Facts. Well written. Amazing survey of Chicagoan Histories.

I think I’m getting used to his SOPs, and the person that I believe to be the killer is someone that we’re not actually supposed to suspect. We’re following the red herring, while the real killer is closer to the good guys than we think. Also, they’ve managed to get rid of Del Rey, one of the best characters in the series, but I don’t really think he’s gone…Deaver’s SOPs ~ sometimes I’m right?

“Panic. Depression. Drought. Failure.” These are some of the things that caused many of the pioneers/Squatter Thieves to turn “Shack Wacky”, “Wandering Around From Pillar to Post” or
“Troubadours of the Prairie” 24-28% Meanwhile on the East Coast, thousands were becoming millionaires. https://www.blackhistory.com/2018/06/...

Kathryn Dance’s 1st appearance ~ such a great character!! Looking forward to Sach’s Lieutenant BadASS on her first solo case in another district, as well.

Wonderful accounts of life on the Prairies turns of the last century ~

Not surprisingly, Charles Ingalls was one of the Squatters allowed to steal land from The Osage while in Kansas. They left months before the abilities to buy 900 acres for $50 down on a total $330 (he’d already paid $35), yet hard to root for them?? In their defense, the Gub’MINT was saying it was awwww’rite, so technically they weren’t breaking any laws.

Pre-checking this out I realized I could read this without having read any of the other “Little House on the Prairie” books. Fascinating historical background to Laura Ingalls-Wilder’s “sugar-coated” Memoirs.

“Controversial” sexual habits of the late great king, commonplace throughout the globe just never read about it from Natan’s Scribe position; recording without judgment nor editorializing. Kind of like what journalists were 50 years ago?
“A Game of Thrones” made incest sexy?
Also, loving female perspectives, David’s 1st wife, which are less than non-existent in most religious historical texts.

I figured a shorter Nonfiction insight into Brooks’ worlds might illuminate her prolific body of work. Having grown up on an island, I’m right there with down her bittersweet memory lane.

While waiting for “Horse” and two others I started “The Secret Chord”. Not at all what I was expecting; fascinating view into Biblical characters.

“Shirley didn’t have a problem she’d only had a lifestyle.” ~
53%

A private tragedy not a public cataclysm.
Reflects Dr. Ellen Langer’s “A Tragedy or An Inconvenience” (on Mel Robbins’ Podcast)

Shirley Danglars reminds me of everything my favorite character, Katherine “Havisham” WAS 25 years prior!! I hope she survives!!
vs
57%
If I’d been incompetent I’d still have a job.

Even Smokes and mirror still have some traces of INTEL (22%)

Women were born Spooks.
and
Careless ability of falling into oblivion. 24% [The OB]

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It could splinter you, such pressure. It could rob you of sleep, cheat you of dreams and surprise you into tears at your desk. (Lady Di) 43%

Very HILARIOUS ~ building nicely ~ equally intensifying!

I’m liking Jackson a bit more this time around ~ great opening set-up.

Not as good as “Down Cemetery Road”, but written with wit and humor; action has just begun so perhaps a redemptive ending?

“The yellows weren’t yellows; but white stained. The grays weren’t gray either, but black. Black with the stuffing knocked out of it.” Nothing is what it seems, and everything is blotched, blotted and broken.

Must read to better understand “Ironic Floss” ~ “Indifferent Unscapes” and the “Twilight World of Expedient Operations”. Getting better with every page!

Witty. Real. Love to hate characters. Hate to lose others.
So I saw Emma Thompson on The Graham Norton Show and immediately downloaded novel. The character she plays is only tangential in this 1st novel. PLUS “Slow Horses” since it’s by the same author. (Different Series)

I only had this for 14 days, I could’ve finished, but it was so depressing. Vitally important to know all the places globally where toxins are a daily part of many communities’ waking (and sleeping) lives. Fraser’s connections to this and the growing numbers of extremely violent people is not to be taken lightly. The saddest part, like micro-plastics, another man-made horror, there’s truly NO WHERE to hide.

Six Degrees of Separation from Evil Thomas Midgley, Jr.
“Sometimes bad things are engineered by engineers.” And they’re locking up petty Dime Bag Pushers? This FUCK created at least two of the most carcinogenic substances on earth; responsible for millions of ruined lives; killers, defective humans that otherwise could have contributed greatly to societies!
Fraser shows us how close we are to it all.

More than anything Chicago yearned…

14%
2:25.20
“There’s something incomplete about this city and its people, and it fascinates me. It seems to urge one on to completion. Everything, here still seems possible.

I love the air of newness, of expectation around me.
Yes, I want to stay.”
László Moholy-Nagy

These from previous days’ reads! I can’t find most recent notes?

Loved to live there one day?

"The illiterate of the Future will be the man who doesn’t understand photography,” Walter Benjamin - Moholy - in his 1931 Essay “A Short History of Photography”
&
2:45.35
Charles Morris' Letter of Intro to John Dewey - Progressivism Philosopher - with driving sense to: Experience, Experiment and Connections to Jane Addams [Hull House 1889] in her Academic Theory with Social Reform collaborating movements.

So much I’m learning about Chicago. Elizabeth Wood ~ Japanese American
who actually brought Pride to the Projects; gentrifying them for those who needed them the most.
She provided clean and safe homes with playgrounds and clinics on each property. - “Fear of tenants becoming snobbish.”
and
Gwendolyn Brooks’ 1944 “A Street in Brownsville” ~ “…challenging Langston Hughes as Premier Black Poet.”

A bit juvenile-HSy with all the in house jealousies reading more like a Soap Opera in many respects. Unless one of the Creepers ends up being a Perp in this or another subsequent mystery? Or perhaps even a victim? The actual Detective Work, historical and cultural fictions are intriguing so I hope it finishes firmly rooted in a Rankin Culmination.