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This had been sitting around at the library just waiting for me to pick it up because back when I first sampled it it sounded intriguing. It’s the latest in the J.P. Beaumont series from JA Jance’s (2021). Just to … Continue reading →

This was an Audible Sale purchase, but it had been on my Wish List for a few months.  I’m glad it was on sale because it didn’t grab me particularly. In many ways it’s the same-old, same-old.  It’s quite violent … Continue reading →

This is such a good book I’m going to finish the series (of 2) so I’m in line at the library – they say 2 weeks but …  (I might buy it early but …?)   Major idea as advocated … Continue reading →

I read Otsuka’s 2 prior novels many years ago and just loved them. The Buddha in the Attic was the first book where I really cried while reading.  It’s historical fiction taking place in the area where I lived for … Continue reading →

This was for a challenge to read books with weather in the title.  Someone else in the group said it was good book and it was already in my Wish List. It won several awards in 2020 so … sounds … Continue reading →

I thought this was nonfiction memoir, but that’s my bad because it’s advertised as a novel – even on the front cover!  Sigh…  A family of three,  Mom and two young boys, is living in New Orleans after their flight … Continue reading →

Eskens has written 6 novels and I’ve read 5 now.  I’ve been deliberately skipping the one about ex-military people. I’ve enjoyed all of them although a couple weren’t quite up to the level of the first two.  They’re mostly pretty … Continue reading →

This book is said to be ground-breaking work on the level of Pinker or someone (not quite up to Rousseau or Hobbes).  Yes – maybe but … with a lot of buts, actually.  I’m not an expert on current thinking … Continue reading →

This is an old one (1993) but it was on sale at Audible and it looked pretty good. I’m a fan of good True Crime and Jack Olsen used to be among the best of crime reporters. By the time … Continue reading →

I don’t know about James Patterson,  but I do enjoy the collaboration between him and Maxine Paetro for The Women’s Murder Club mysteries – I’ve previously read two books by Patterson alone and they seem rather dry and extra violent … Continue reading →

Confession time –  one of the reasons I read/listen to books so much is that I have tinnitus (ringing in ears) and I often can’t do silence. I can fall asleep (usually) but just sitting around in an empty house … Continue reading →

Let me start off by saying that I’m becoming a huge fan of Olga Tokarczuk.  This book, having taken six or seven years to write, was first published in Poland in 2014, but it wasn’t translated into English until after … Continue reading →

I reread this for a discussion group and as usual, I got a whole lot more out of it the second time.  A WHOLE LOT MORE!!!! (1st review is here)  Now I’m might have to have to read The Sixth Extinction … Continue reading →

I don’t know why I hadn’t tried any of Anne Perry’s books but for some reason I never had.  The English author has been publishing novels since 1979 (43 years?) at the rate of  about 2 a year and they … Continue reading →

I’d seen this at Audible for a long time and it was on my Wish List and suddenly one day it was on sale!   Oh, oh, oh! And as soon as I finished Blood and Treasure I opened it … Continue reading →

It’s a good thing I’m reading this because I’m one of those folks who would get Daniel Boone and Davy Crocket mixed up from time to time.  No more of that!  Daniel Boone was a real pre-Revolutionary War pioneer, helping small … Continue reading →

“It’s harder than you might think to take people hostage when they’re idiots.” Anxious People by Frederick Backman – Norway 2020 (349 pages)Read by Marin IrelandRating 7.5 / general fiction  In a very small city in Sweden, a bank robber is … Continue reading →