Author Archives: beckylindroos

I’d seen this book available for some time and it looked interesting.  It even sat on my Wish List for awhile.  Then it was on sale.  Okay fine. Done.   The Art of Living:Peace and Freedom in the Here and … Continue reading →

From the Booker International Prizes 2021 and read for my Booker Group  That year the winner was “At Night All Blood Is Black” by David Diop which was pretty bleak. This is more sci-fi or speculative fiction and it’s sad, … Continue reading →

Legal thriller – yay!  Narrator – omg.   While Justice SleepsBy Stacey Abrams2021 / Read by Adenrele Ojo  14h 55mRating -story B+ / narration D Legal thriller  Although the customer reviews at Audible told me over and over that the narration was … Continue reading →

Fascinating book! I read several of Ehrman’s books over the years and I got to a point where many of them seemed to contain one interesting new aspect but were otherwise often repetitious.  Nevertheless, I was seeing this book on … Continue reading →

I’ve read a few CJ Box books and enjoyed them well enough.  They’re usually a part of the Joe Pickett series, but this one is the first of a series I started reading in and thought I’d finished long ago. … Continue reading →

This is a nice, light, cozy mystery developed from the TV show of bygone years.  There are 55 books in the series now with another one coming up (supposedly).  I enjoy those written by Donald Bain, but I’ve not tried … Continue reading →

I first saw this at Audible – it looked good  and sounded good so it went on my Wish List there (now almost 300 books).  Then a friend in a reading group recommended it and it sounded right up my … Continue reading →

The really abridged version of this review is “I don’t think this was written for me or maybe even my age group.”  Real LifeBy Brandon Taylor2021 / Read by Kevin Free 9h 25mRating: 4/ 21st cent fiction Stupid.  I’m allergic … Continue reading →

The first major problem with this one is that the premise is too far fetched; like, way beyond my suspension of disbelief.  And it opens and closes with too much thriller-type violence for my tastes. So I just figured an avid … Continue reading →

This book is so funny.  And it’s marginally informative, too, but I don’t think that’s the point.  That’s not really why I read it anyway.  And it’s funny only until you think about it.   Landslide: The Final Days of … Continue reading →

Amazing book by Neil Price who tries to write a history of the Vikings more from their point of view than has been done before.  He tells about who they were and how we know this, or intelligently figure it. … Continue reading →

I’ve been reading legal thrillers by Methos for a couple years. That’s what he writes! Up to now. Now he’s got a new game and it’s a procedural thriller. Vanished is the first in a trilogy featuring the detective partners … Continue reading →

It felt like I needed a break from the violence but I sure didn’t get it with this book.  I guess I knew I wouldn’t this being a Scandi-noir but it doesn’t require a lot of analytic thinking so …  … Continue reading →

In WWI there was a troop of Senegalese riflemen who fought alongside their French colonizers in their war against Germany. These troops were called the Chocolats.   Our 1st person narrator, the 20-year old Alfa Ndiaye, joined up with them … Continue reading →

I got tired of politic books after Trump’s first impeachment trial and although I watched and read the news as carefully as usual, I had no desire to go more deeply into anything.  In January of 2021 I read Ten … Continue reading →

This is another book I got at the last Audible sale. I’d had this on my Wish List for several months already, but just hadn’t done anything about it and then it pops up on the sale.  I probably had … Continue reading →

This very literary work of nonfiction comes to us from the hand of the same author who wrote The Hare with the Amber Eyes so popular a couple decades ago (2000).   It’s the same general material with the focus … Continue reading →