Monthly Archives: July 2022

I’m slowly reading my way through the Booker Prize Long List but this was on my Wish List anyway. I loved his Pulitzer winning In the Distance (see my review on this site): Trustby Hernan Diaz2022 / (415 pages)read by … Continue reading →

This was on sale at Audible and it sounded better than what else I was thinking of for now at the moment. I need space between good literature and good nonfiction because they can be exhausting. The New York Times … Continue reading →

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story edited by Nicole Hannah-Jones2021 / 539 pagesread by the authors: 16h 57mRating – 9 / US history (I read and listened and I would love to do it again but I only reread parts.******* I … Continue reading →

One thing about procedurals is that they have to be accurate to the times.  A contemporary crime story should not have a couple of criminals being escorted from a building but taking a side trip to use the bathroom.  I … Continue reading →

Powerful book! This is a novella which managed to make the Booker Prize Long List for last year.  It’s dedicated “…to the women and children who suffered time in Ireland’s mother and baby homes and Magdalen laundries.”  (That kind of … Continue reading →

It seems that Winslow has changed again and this time he’s gone from a series of door-stopping tomes and the stuff of serious criminal thrillers to novellas of various everything including lengths.They’ve been put together into one volume called Broken … Continue reading →

I got this book when I saw it available at the library because, I guess, I thought I “should” read it. I read quite a lot of minority literature. See Juneteenth by Annette Gordon Reed, Franchise by Marcia Chatelain and … Continue reading →

I’d seen this advertised somewhere and stuck it on the Audible Wish List for later. It may have been before it was released.  Then when it did come out I had to finish reading  one book and found other books … Continue reading →

In an online discussion with a reading group the subject of Audio books came up. I virtually always listen to books, but ‘ll often read along in a Kindle version. I originally bought a Kindle in 2008 for travel and … Continue reading →

This is a physically beautiful book even in the Kindle rendition with excellent organization, photographs and writing.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_Apocryphon Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World by Philip Matyszak 2020 / 398 pagesRead by Michael Page 8h 3mRating: 9.5 / ancient history of the … Continue reading →

So yes, I read this a second time.  I was blown away the first time and kind of promised myself I had to read that book again. (See my very minimal review at: https://mybecky.blog/2022/06/29/no-one-is-talking-about-thisby-patricia-lockwood/ ) No One Is Talking About … Continue reading →

Although it’s not without a few flaws, this is an incredible account of one New York Hospital systems battle with Covid-19. I heard about it on TV, found it at Audible, sampled, purchased and downloaded straightaway, it went right into … Continue reading →

Now Chief Detective Inspector William Warwick and his wife Beth are on a cruise taking a break from the London scene where the Unsolved Murders Unit has established a particular batch of gang-style murders as a priority. Ross Hogan who is … Continue reading →

Oh what a marvelous novel.  I’ve read a few books by John Le Carré but it was a long time ago, a few in the 1980s I think, and then a couple more later.  I always enjoyed them but not … Continue reading →

This is fine addition to the Women’s Murder Club series. The whole gang is here, Lindsay, Claire, Cindy and the latest addition Yuki.  Lindsay might be my favorite fictional female detective these days and the group makes for a wonderful … Continue reading →

 Gregory Van Dyke, a very rich industrialist of turn-of-the-century New York City, is killed in an explosion.  Frank Malloy, a city detective and a main character in this series, is asked by Teddy Roosevelt, the police commissioner, to find the … Continue reading →

Don’t even bother unless you’re interested in the subject matter – political philosophy in the 21st Century from a kind of “spiritual” point of view.  Developmental Politics: How America Can Grow Into a Better Version of Itself by David McIntosh 2021 – 248 … Continue reading →