Monthly Archives: November 2023

These two books are a novella and its sequel – A Psalm for the Wild-Built is the first and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is the second. Buying them together is not expensive and you’ll have the second when you … Continue reading →

I’ve been reading this series in order and I just don’t think Betrayal is as good as the 6 priors in the Robin Lockwood books. Parts are quite good, especially an embedded mystery and its resolution.   And the courtroom … Continue reading →

I don’t know why, but it took me awhile to get into this book. It’s not terribly long, but covers quite a lot of everything with a brilliant intensity.  The setting is the coastal area of South Korea basically from … Continue reading →

This is a good one in the Joe Pickett series, one of the best maybe, but I’ve got 17 books to go – LOL!   Free Fireby C.J. Box – 2007 (book) Read by David Chandler 11h 5mRating – A++ / … Continue reading →

I’d been eyeing this book for awhile.  It’s the first of a 2-book series, the first book, this one, has a sequel.  It’s basically about 2 creatures, one human, the other a robot, who live together in the wilderness set … Continue reading →

Jeff Goodell had written several books on the environment before boarding a research ship for a trip with the scientists to study the effects of climate change at Thwaites Glacier on the western coast of Antarctica.  Thwaites Glacier is sometimes … Continue reading →

I only finished because I wanted to get that child saved.  I won’t read any more of or about Joe Dillard; they’re too grizzly. Last ResorBy Scott PrattRead by Tim Campbell 8h 20mRating: C / crime thriller (#10 in the Joe … Continue reading →

This is from a gifted  writer I’d never heard of before. He’s got 7, now 8, books to his name and I think they’re all collections essays. touches him emotionally and that contributes to his brilliance with the written word. … Continue reading →

I haven’t read a John Lescroart novel for a year and a half!  I used to love his legal thrillers and get the new onse in a series as they came out. But then after a half dozen books the … Continue reading →

Thi is a very good book BUT I have a couple of things I’d like to mention.  First – Hochschild is not a historian – not an academic one at any rate. He’s a journalist and teaches narrative writing for … Continue reading →

A new book in the Mickey Haller series by Michael Connelly is released every two or three years and I’ve looked forward to this one ever since it was announced. I don’t pre-order anything because personally, I want to start … Continue reading →

For decades I read real dead tree and ink books and loved them dearly – I’d say I did that for 68 years or so. And I was usually a voracious reader. But some time within the past 20 years … Continue reading →

Mitch McDeere, John Grisham’s protagonist for the 1991 legal thriller, The Firm (1991), is back in Memphis to check on a possible pro-bono death penalty case. This novel, The Exchange, is # 2 in the series, and takes place in … Continue reading →

This book was so compelling I just wanted to lose myself in it and just skip the jigsaw puzzle or whatever in front of me  (like crocheting while listening to the radio – not a biggie). What the Dead Know:Learning … Continue reading →

Ahhh….True Crime – a book to relax with – (maybe?) – but I might fall asleep –  “The causes of their deaths was either calamity or overwhelming force.”  So said the original Russian government report of 1959 about the violent … Continue reading →

Joe Pickett is a game warden in Wyoming (near Yellowstone) where he lives with his wife and two daughters.  One day he’s driving high school age daughter, Sheridan and her friend, Julie Scarlett, home from school, but they come across … Continue reading →

This is probably the most difficult novel I read all year, at least so far. That said,  it’s also one of the very best – maybe it is the best. Let me define “best” here.  I’ve already read it two … Continue reading →