Monthly Archives: March 2024

Interesting but twisty and hard to keep track of the names.  The HeronBy Don WinslowRead by Ed Harris 1h 6mRating – B / short story –

Dr Amy Thunig (B.Arts, M.Teach, PhD) is of the Gamilaroi woman and mother who resides on the unceded lands of the Awabakal peoples- ) This means she is Indigenous Aboriginal and living on the islands east of Australia.   Tell … Continue reading →

Maybe this should have been categorized as historical crime or something other than just True Crime because, from the customer reviews, several people weren’t really interested in the way this story is told; one truly did not get the point. … Continue reading →

This is a good book to listen to – it’s literary enough in some ways and the narrator is well-suited to the narrative.   HOWEVER – a warning – the story or plot line – is slow and quiet for … Continue reading →

I knew who Naomi Klein was before I read this – I read her prior book, This Changes Everything, and gave it the reasonably high ranking of 8.5. She’s very smart and writes well, but, fwiw, has no degree backing … Continue reading →

About 6 years ago (series book #3, Winterkill)  Joe and his wife, Marybeth had a foster child living with them for awhile and the family grew very attached. But Alice was murdered in a dispute regarding her natural mother. Now, … Continue reading →

This is the sequel to Nita Prose’s  best-selling debut novel, The Maid (2022).  The thing about this series is that the 1st person narrator likely has Asperger’s and her social skills are quite limited. That’s a huge part of the … Continue reading →

This is the 1st book in the Sheriff Porter Beck series by Bruce Borges who has a couple of standalone to his credit, but this is his first series.  The second book. Shades of Mercy, is due out this summer. … Continue reading →

It would be very easy to confuse this as another book in The Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French, but it’s not.  This is the second book in the Cal Hooper series which first appeared as The Searcher (same … Continue reading →

I don’t quite remember why I got this book.  It was actually available at the library, it had great reviews, it was a memoir, and the sample struck me right. Also it really felt like something I could stand to … Continue reading →

 Beck in November I read the excellent American Midnight by Adam Hochschild (my review on this site) which mainly covers the years 1917-1921 in the US.  Those years were full of fear, political repression, overt racism, anti-immigrant sentiments and a deadly … Continue reading →

I’m still pretty certain I read parts of this somewhere else prior to today.  Then on the next paragraph or page there are bits I’m sure I’ve never read before at all.  ???? (I’m thinking an exerpt somewhere.)  Patriot Number … Continue reading →

What a strange book for me to be reading!  It’s a nonfiction memoir-biography I only heard of very recently and which was published 8 years ago about events which transpired over 50 years ago – the Watergate Scandal and its … Continue reading →

This series is getting better and better. Here in Murder in Little Italy, we have a very young Irish girl giving birth to the child of her also very young husband, an very young man of Italian descent who works … Continue reading →

“When we try to pick out anything by itself,” John Muir wrote in My First Summer in the Sierra, “we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” The truth of this often-quoted line will be evidenced over and … Continue reading →