Author Archives: beckylindroos

Excellent but gory. I started another great one before I wrote the blurb for this – oh dear. This one is about a serial killer in Denmark. It’s like the old Scandi-noir books by Jo Nesbo and others. This one … Continue reading →

Wolf PackBy C. J. Box2019 /read by David Chandler 8h 51mrating – B+ / crime series (book #19)  Not my favorite series but one that always satisfies.  This book is mostly about as good as any of the 18 which … Continue reading →

This Tender Landby William Kent Krueger 2019 Read by Scott Brick – 14h 19mRating – 7.5  / historical fiction  I’ve read a few of Krueger’s books,  Iron Lake (the first of his Cork O’Connor series), another of that series and Amazing Grace, … Continue reading →

Quichotteby Salman Rushdie 2019 / 398 pagesread by Sasha Rotermund 15h 38mrating – 8.75 / contempt lit fiction my 1st revieq: – https://mybecky.blog/2019/11/15/quichotte-by-salman-rushdie/******* This was my second read and I often get so much more out of Rushdie’s books the second … Continue reading →

This turned out to be very much worth the second read. There are five main characters and I was better able to follow them in their lives. I was better able to understand the Indian problems and the other issues … Continue reading →

Only the Goodby Rosemary Reeveread by Noah DeBlase 10h 3m rating: B /  legal thriller Jack Hart/Harmony Series #3 In this third book of the Jack Hart trilogy, Harmony is getting over her trauma in Japan and Jack is settling down … Continue reading →

Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walkerread by Robert Ian MacKenzie  8h 18m rating: B / Crime This is pretty good for a series starter focusing on the protagonist with plenty of background to get you involved for the long … Continue reading →

I’ve fallen in love with the writing of Mark Arax.  First I read The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California (2019) which absolutely amazed me and was about how California got to be California. I’ve mostly lived here … Continue reading →

Too long, contrived and predictable, but it was on sale.  On the plus side,  I did finish. *******Then She Was Goneby Lisa Jewell2018/ read by Helen Duff10h 12mrating: B / suspense ******* Ellie Mack was 15 years old when she … Continue reading →

Agencyby William Gibson2020 / 403 ppread by Lorelei King 10h 12mrating: ??? / spec fiction Well, this is one to read again – (maybe) – Gibson’s plots can get notoriously complex and he liberally strews very current words and technology … Continue reading →

*******Before She Met Him by Peter Swanson 2019 / 325 ppread by Sophie Amos, Graham Halstead 10h 15mrating: B+ crime suspense******* Quite good after a couple hours of set up which feels like a standard thriller story.  Then that fades and … Continue reading →

The title is from William Blake’s, “Proverbs of Hell” but the story here is straight from Tokarczuk. But there’s lot of Blake in it as well as astrology, Swedenberg and even, yes, a couple of murders. Drive Your Plow Over … Continue reading →

*******The Pioneersby David McCullough 2019 / 332 ppread by John Bedford Lloyd 10h 23rating: 8 / US history******* In some ways this book was much better than I expected. I’d heard rather disparaging comments about how the title seemed to … Continue reading →

*******The Testamentsby Margaret Atwood 2019 / 381 pagesread by a cast 13h 18mrating: 9 / sci-fi? ******* I enjoyed The Handmaid’s Tale, the book to which this is a sequel,  but I wasn’t wow’ed even if Atwood is one my … Continue reading →

I’ve read this twice now. The first time was very confusing and because I had a reading group discussion coming up I read it again. I had a feeling I’d really like it once I got the characters straightened out. … Continue reading →

This one is gritty but it got a lot of hype and it piqued my interest.  It’s essentially a procedural crime novel set in the Kensington area of Philadelphia.  Kensington is treated with a certain amount of love, hard as … Continue reading →

I have problems sleeping as much as I should so I saw this book in the recommendations of Bill Gates and went for it. Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreamsby Matthew Walker2017 / 369 pagesRead by … Continue reading →