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Monthly Archives: January 2015
The Girl on the Train
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 2015 / 326 pages Read by Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey, India Fisher / 10h 59m Rating: A / crime (thriller) Something happened to Rachel but she can’t remember what it was – she was drunk … Continue reading
The Hidden Child
The Hidden Child by Camilla Läckberg (Sweden) 2007 (2011 in English) / 400 pages read by Simon Vance / 14h 58m rating: B- / crime (police procedural) I’ve been reading along in this series but Audible doesn’t have the 3rd book … Continue reading
The Meaning of Human Existence
The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson 2013 / 208 pages read by Jonathan Hogan 5h 6m rating – 8.5 / nonfiction – science philosophy (I both read and listened to this one) Read for the All-Nonfiction reading … Continue reading
Proof
Proof by Dick Francis 1984 / 272 pages read by Simon Prebble 9h 43m rating B+ / Crime (traditional/thriller) Dick Francis is an old standby for me – I started reading his books in the 1980s, I think, and every … Continue reading
A Plague of Secrets
A Plague of Secrets by John Lescroart (Dismas Hardy #13) 2009 / 512 pages read by David Caldacci 15h 33m rating – B+ / crime I’m almost caught up on the Dismas Hardy books – 3 left but two are narrated … Continue reading
Books and Crystal Souls
Oh my goodness – I got the new Spiderweb Software game Avernum 2: Crystal Souls (great review) and I’ve been lost to the world for about 3 or 4 days. I listen to books while I play the “casual level” while I listen to crime … Continue reading
Murder She Wrote: A Question of Murder
Murder She Wrote: A Question of Murder by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain 2006/292 pages Read by Cynthia Darlow 6h 47m Rating: B- / crime / cozy This was on my wish list for awhile because I loved the Murder … Continue reading
Rage Against the Dying
Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman 2013 / 320 pages Read by Judy Kaye 11h 17m rating A / crime (thriller) This turned out to be a great book, but I almost put it down as a “could not finish,” … Continue reading
A Place of Execution
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid 2000 / 486 pages Read by Paddy Glynn 14h 34m rating A- / crime I’ve heard this is a classic as well as being a multiple award-winner and I can see that. I wish … Continue reading
The Gift of Rain
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Malaysian) 2007 / 432 pages Rating 9 / historical fiction 1/14/15 This book started out so incredibly good for me that I began writing little summaries – I find doing that keeps me … Continue reading
Lila
Lila by Marilynne Robinson 2014 / 261 pages Rating 9.25 / contemp fiction This is the third of Robinson’s interconnected series which started with the book Gilead, the name of the small Iowa town of the setting. In that first book, John Ames is … Continue reading
Happy All the Time
Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin 1978 / 213 pages read by Marc Vietor 6h 13m Rating: 8 / 20th century fiction Reading group selection – (Bookgroup List) – I first thought it was going to be some stupid romance, but … Continue reading
The Rosie Effect
The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion 2014 / 352 pages Read by Dan O’Grady 7h 32m Rating: 7.5 / fiction (humor) This is the sequel to The Rosie Project (which I guess I neglected to review!) and, as with most sequels, it loses … Continue reading
Historical Fiction – 2014
Due to a discussion in a reading group I got to wondering about the Historical Fiction I’ve read in the past year (2014) So I did a little survey analysis since I’d never actually done a count. I read … Continue reading
Happy 2015!
Yup – here we are – a new year. Do I have plans to read anything specific? Yes – there are a few books on my resolutions list: 1. Riddley Walker -by Russell Hoban (1980) – I’ve been wanting … Continue reading