Monthly Archives: July 2023

Recommended by a friend whose taste is, quite often, similar to mine. Also, as itt turns out, this was the “Best Crime Novel of the Year” for 2022 according to the judgement of the New York Times The Lost Kings by … Continue reading →

This is a P.S. more than anything to say that the above comments are not my final thoughts. I was none too happy with the idea of rereading this book even if I did give it a 9.5 and felt … Continue reading →

Learning From the Germans was selected by the All-Nonfiction Reading Group https://groups.io/g/AllNonfiction for our August read.  If it weren’t for that group I’d miss a LOT of great books!!!  The author comes from an academic place of Philosophy especially the Enlightenment.  She also … Continue reading →

This is the first James Patterson I’ve read where he has someone other than Maxine Praeto co-writing with him.  It took me awhile but at about a third of the book the plot took off.  Someone was murdered and the … Continue reading →

I think I’ve gotten involved with this sereies.  I’ve read 4 or 5 out of order simply because they sounded good,  but now I’ve started from the beginning and am going through them in order (as far as I get). … Continue reading →

Whew!  I finished again.  I came across parts I hadn’t really processed earlier and I came across parts which had angered me on my prior reading.  At this point I think it’s a nice book. – a really sweet book … Continue reading →

I was much more interested in the parts about the actual fire which occurred in 2016 in northern Alberta Canada along with the people involved and the destruction it did than I was in the scientific underpinnings.  That said, I … Continue reading →

I’m enjoying the Joe Pickett series more and more and this is the best so far.  It starts out in a snow storm just before Christmas when Joe is called to the scene of a murder where another forestry employee … Continue reading →

This book is said to be based on a true story – it could be.Something about it feels that way, but if you’d asked me before I read that piece of info I wouldn’t have guessed. It’s just not real … Continue reading →

I saw Wesley Lowery, the author of American Whitewash, on television Friday morning and just then and there found the book at Audible and put it on my Wish List.  A few hours later I was tired of reading Poverty, … Continue reading →

Recommended by a someone in a reading group, I likely wouldn’t have read it otherwise but she was so enthusiastic about it.  Anyway,  I was pleased with the book and hooked into it for the whole day. I wasn’t overwhelmed, … Continue reading →

I read the first two books in this series a couple years ago and enjoyed them both. Timothy Dalton, the narrator of the audiobook, does an excellent job and the story is  intelligent and beautifully written, as always, from John … Continue reading →

So I jumped right into another really good mystery tale by Louise Penny.  Three years ago? Well, I wasn’t exactly a fan of Louise Penny. Now?  I’m still not her biggest fan, but I have a fondness for Armand Gamache … Continue reading →