Author Archives: beckylindroos

Rabbit Run by John Updike 1960 / 336 pages read by Arthur Morey 12h 5m Rating:  5 / classic 20th century angst I got it read – been tempting me for years solely because it’s a series of books  although … Continue reading →

Monsieur Lecoq by Émile Gaboriau 1869 / 316 pages Rating:  A+ / classic crime  police procedural – I guess it’s the history embedded in classic lit which gets to me –  this is the first full length detective novel of the … Continue reading →

The Inner Circle by Brad Melzer 2011 / 544 pages read by Scott Brick 14h 15m rating  B  /  political thriller The Inner Circle was first published in 2011 and  it takes place in the not too distant future. I bought the book because … Continue reading →

Evan Harrington by George Meredith 1860 / 427 pages rating  8 / classic satire This is a bit outside my comfort zone – I can read late Victorian lit very nicely thank you,  but when it comes to the earlier … Continue reading →

Sweetland by Michael Crummey 2014/ 336 pages read by John Lee 9h 12m Rating: 7 /  literary survival fiction Moses Sweetland’s family was among the original settlers on Sweetland Island – a fictional place off the coast of Newfoundland  – … Continue reading →

An Ice Cream War by William Boyd 1982 / 397 pages rating: 7  / historical fiction Set in the summer of  1914 in German East Africa,  now Burundi, Rwanda and parts of Tanzania,  a couple ex-patriot neighbors, one US one … Continue reading →

The Attorney by Steven Martini 1999 / 448 pages read by Eric Bergmann 11h 5m rating B- / legal thriller The story started out so well – rich old grandpa Jonah and grandma Mary  Hale have custody of their granddaughter … Continue reading →

The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe by Michael Pye 2014/403 pages (K) Rating:  8.5  / European history Oh I have been gone from reading nonfiction history for so long … Continue reading →

The Crossing by Michael Connelly 2015 / 400 pages read by Titus Welliver 9h 20m rating A+  / crime (#20 in the Harry Bosch series) I’ve read almost all of the Harry Bosch police procedural series over the years – … Continue reading →

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes 2009 / 640 pages read by Bronson Pinchot 21h 10m rating:  9.5   / literary war I wasn’t even going to read this book because I tend not to like war books – even so-called “anti-war” books … Continue reading →

A Killer Among Us by Charles Bosworth 1998 / 460 pages read by Kevin Pierce 16h 14m rating:  C / True Crime (Elizabeth/Rick Decaro case) I succumbed –  years ago I read quite a lot of True Crime – no … Continue reading →

The Dwarfs by Harold Pinter published in 1992 but written in the 1950s, 184 pages Rating:  8  –  mid 20th century lit I hadn’t read anything by Harold Pinter, who was the recipient of the 2005 Nobel prize in literature … Continue reading →

The Vikings from The Great Courses by and read by Professor Kenneth W. Harl rating –  NA? –  quite good –  8.5? I started this “book”  (listening to lectures) a long time ago and am only finally finishing it.  What prompted … Continue reading →

Missing Person by Patrick Modiano ( France) 1978 (1980 Eng) / 168 pages rating 9.5 This is the second Modiano I’ve read although the first – Suspended Sentences – is really 3 novellas in one volume, Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin.  I guess I … Continue reading →

The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen  (Danish) 2015 / (512 pages) read by Graeme Malcolm 15h 37m Rating  A+ / crime #6 in the Dept. Q series I don’t read series books back-to-back,  not normally anyway.  I usually take my … Continue reading →

The Purity of Vengeance by Jussi Adler-Olsen  (Denmark translated) 2013 / 528 pages read by Graeme Malcolm 14h 6m rating:  A –  crime (Dept. Q mystery – #4 ) Eeks!   I read this earlier this month (October) but forgot … Continue reading →

The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine by Alexander McCall Smith 2015 / 224 pages read by Lisette Lecat – 9h 20m rating – A++  /  very cozy crime #16 in the #1 Ladies Detective Agency series Oh be still my heart!  I … Continue reading →