Author Archives: beckylindroos

I happened on this while looking at “suggestions” after finishing Circle of Hope by Eliza Griswold  https://mybecky.blog/2024/08/23/circle-of-hope-by-eliza-griswold .  Junger is a journalist, author and filmmaker and that sounded interesting as did other of his books.  I looked into it further and was still interested,  but it … Continue reading →

Anthony Fauci has been a hero to me ever since I first saw him on television and realized I’d read about him, too. So I’ve been  eyeballing his book, “On Call,” for the last few months.  He both wrote and … Continue reading →

This book just casually caught my eye, so I sampled it and promptly put it on my Wish List because it sounded just right for me now. I started reading and was very much enjoying the book and then I … Continue reading →

I’ve been wanting to read something by Applebaum for a long time – a couple years at least – and I finally came to a point where I just bought a copy (Kindle/Audible) of her latest which was also not … Continue reading →

I had read all 6 Greg Isles’ prior Cage novels of this series when #7, the last one (supposedly), was released. It took me a couple weeks, but I finally caved to reading the 950-pages racist and extremely violent narrative … Continue reading →

Salman Rushdie was 75 years old in 2022 – and so was I. So when, in the first pages of his newly released book, Knife, he asks himself the question, “Why didn’t I act?”, possible answers are given. But I … Continue reading →

Pardon me but imo, this is one of the stupidest books I’ve ever read. I even tried to return it but it had been on “sale” for me. Finally, I fell asleep at about 3 hours in and woke up … Continue reading →

“Thought-provoking true-crime thriller…the book raises urgent questions of balancing public and private good that we’ll likely be dealing with as long as the title implies.”—Wall Street Journal The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double MurderBy … Continue reading →

This could be a tell-all re unethical lawyers and unethical reporters/media – maybe unethical people in general seeing as how many paparazzi and gossips hover.  It’s quite gritty, starting with the opening pages which tell of the ending for Sydney … Continue reading →

This is a very nice book. It has a simple plot which examines the motives and responses of a triangle of adults as they sort through their lives. Long IslandColm Toibin – 2024Read by Jessie Buckley, 9h 28mRating – 8. … Continue reading →

I only got this one because it was part of a subscription package and I also thought I’d read and enjoyed the author prior. Had I checked my own blog, here, I would have realized I’d never read anything by … Continue reading →

Another winner from the Joe Pickett series – #12! Force of Nature by C.J. Box Read by David Chandler 10h 39mRating – A/ Mystery12 in Joe Pickett series)  Box keeps brining the good ones out (although I’m still catching up). Of course … Continue reading →

The Finnish historian Pekka Hamalainen, currently teaching in Oxford, England specializes in US Native Americans and their history.  “Indigenous Continent” is his third book on the subject and he describes a “four-centuries-long war,” in which Native Americans “won as often … Continue reading →

We had to read a section of this back in college days – Poli Sci 101, I believe, 1972.  I recognized a passage when I saw/heard it a couple hours ago. And we had the same photo of him in … Continue reading →

Cold Wind  opens with a scene which is kind of ghastly, but at the same time it’s LOL-worthy. If you visualize the situation and hear Joe’s words to Marybeth about Missy – you can’t help but laugh.  And it gets … Continue reading →

I accidentally missed this Michael Stagg/Nate Shephard book last week, but caught that error quickly and remedied it – finished today. The series was all on sale this last week and I’d read the first 3 prior but I had … Continue reading →

Good book!  It’s older, published first in 2008, and it wasn’t quite what I expected either, but still, like I said, “Good book!”   The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the  Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth … Continue reading →