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Richard 77



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PostPosted: 01/01/19 9:57 pm    ::: What I'm Reading 2019 Reply Reply with quote

Time to start anew...

I'm currently reading My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout and Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik.



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PostPosted: 01/02/19 6:58 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

I read an advance copy of Ed Ifkovic's 'Run Cold' novel.
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PostPosted: 02/01/19 12:56 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Every February, I read a book by a black author for Black History Month. This year it's Housegirl by Michael Donkor



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PostPosted: 02/01/19 6:50 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

I finished reading Matthew Quirk's The Night Agent last week and today I finished reading the Chris Hammer novel Scrublands. You can check out my review of the 2nd book via this Goodreads.com link.
Richard 77



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PostPosted: 02/13/19 4:27 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Read Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.

Reading Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman.



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PostPosted: 02/13/19 10:29 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Richard 77 wrote:
Read Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.

Reading Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman.


Homegoing is one of the best books I have read in the past several years. HOpe you are enjoying it.


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PostPosted: 02/13/19 9:10 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Loved the movie of the musical so much I thought I'd go back to the source. Enjoying it but it's verrrry long. Guess that's petty to say about a classic of world literature!


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PostPosted: 02/15/19 11:25 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

I was featured today in the Bolo Books mystery blog as a part of the Composite Sketch interview series. You can check it out HERE!
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PostPosted: 02/21/19 5:41 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

My review of the Charles Cumming spy thriller The Moroccan Girl can now be read via this Mystery Scene Magazine link.
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PostPosted: 04/08/19 1:39 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Forgot to check in with this thread.

What I've read thus far this year:

Fame, by Justine Bateman
The Keto Reset Diet, by Mark Sisson
Call it Sleep, by Henry Roth
Everything Trump Touches Dies, by Rick Wilson
Reader Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World, by MaryAnne Wolf
Tommy's Tale, by Alan Cumming
The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen


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PostPosted: 04/08/19 6:03 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

I read Infinite Velocity by Colin Carlton.
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PostPosted: 04/18/19 2:06 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

I just finished the Jack Higgins novel A Devil is Waiting.

Also, Mystery Scene put my review of the Brian Panowich thriller Like Lions an online exclusive.
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PostPosted: 04/30/19 3:10 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Here's my review of the David R. Dow novel Confessions of an Innocent Man.
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PostPosted: 05/14/19 11:19 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Just catching up. Some books I've read this spring:

To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez


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PostPosted: 05/14/19 1:53 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

fancy_daniel wrote:
Just catching up. Some books I've read this spring:

To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez


I really loved Visit from the Goon Squad.


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PostPosted: 05/17/19 10:09 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

PUmatty wrote:
fancy_daniel wrote:
Just catching up. Some books I've read this spring:

To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez


I really loved Visit from the Goon Squad.


It was very good. I liked how she approached the narrative. It was very unique.


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PostPosted: 06/17/19 2:42 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Here's my Mystery Scene magazine review of the Colin Coway / Frank Zafiro thriller Charlie-316.
Richard 77



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PostPosted: 06/18/19 3:32 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Just finished Shanghai Girls by Lisa See. I might read the sequel someday.



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PostPosted: 06/29/19 10:01 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Carpe Diem, Illinois. By Kristin Oakley.



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PostPosted: 07/13/19 11:12 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Recently read:

I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves by Ryan O'Connell
Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua by Stephen Kinzer
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Grit by Angela Duckworth


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PostPosted: 07/13/19 6:14 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

In honor of Pride, I read all queer-themed books by queer authors last month.

"Last Seen Leaving" - by Caleb Roehrig
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" - by Truman Capote
"Long Black Veil" - by Jennifer Finney Boylan
"Murder at Paisley Point" - by Mark McNease
"Who is Vera Kelly?" - by Rosalie Knecht
"Bad Kid: A Memoir on Growing up Goth and Gay in Texas" - by David Crabb
"The Bucolic Plague: How Two Mahattanites Became Gentleman Farmers" - by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
"Wuvable Oaf, Vol. 1" by Ed Luce


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PostPosted: 07/13/19 8:54 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

I finished an advance copy of the new David Baldacci novel One Good Deed.
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PostPosted: 07/14/19 2:27 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

PUmatty wrote:
In honor of Pride, I read all queer-themed books by queer authors last month.

"Last Seen Leaving" - by Caleb Roehrig
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" - by Truman Capote
"Long Black Veil" - by Jennifer Finney Boylan
"Murder at Paisley Point" - by Mark McNease
"Who is Vera Kelly?" - by Rosalie Knecht
"Bad Kid: A Memoir on Growing up Goth and Gay in Texas" - by David Crabb
"The Bucolic Plague: How Two Mahattanites Became Gentleman Farmers" - by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
"Wuvable Oaf, Vol. 1" by Ed Luce


Very nice. Which were your favorites?


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PostPosted: 07/31/19 8:19 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

I finished reading the Maddie Day mystery novel Strangled Eggs and Ham.
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PostPosted: 08/27/19 6:11 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

I finished a couple of books recently. The first was True Believer, a thriller by Jack Carr.

The second was Murder at First Pitch by Nicole Asselin. This was an advance copy of the author's debut mystery.
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