reading list
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The narrative voice! But Grandfather Ludwig has not yet met the greatest calamity of his own life, a woman who will put pressure on every angle of his virtue, who will collapse his good intentions . . . He does not mention that the Crusades, in which Louis IX fought, marked one of the darkest…
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Reading The Quiet Tenant has me on pins and needles. I’m still in the novel’s early pages, but I am so vested in this story. Mostly because I want to see the woman’s kidnapper/abuser vivisected. After five years of keeping her chained up in an unheated shed on his property, he moves to a small…
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Faster than you can say lickety-split, I’ve moved on to my next read, Clémence Michallon’s The Quiet Tenant. I don’t really like voice-driven narratives when I’m reading a mystery, it seems almost too easy. In addition, I don’t really like novels where women are stalked/murdered — which unfortunately is about 75% of all thrillers/mysteries. Nevertheless,…
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Silent and uncertain was the winter, and in Connemara it was never so bleak. — p. 22, The Watchers, by A. M. Shine
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Began reading Una Mannion’s domestic thriller Tell Me What I Am approximately a week ago. It’s about a sister who goes missing in the midst of a bruising custody hearing. The name of the presiding judge is KAVANAUGH. Because of the name, I am prepared to be disappointed by the ruling, LOL If we’re unlucky…
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The above would make great choices for summer reading! Posting for Becky’s Squares Challenge: Because reading is a form of RENEWAL.
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The Main Character has landed on the doorstep of a grieving aunt and uncle in San Francisco, whose nine-year-old only child has been murdered during a grocery store robbery. Barely able to cope with their grief, they can only offer the Main Character two weeks in their home. (This is such a good read, dear…
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Love the antic spirit of this novel, the refusal of its main character to succumb to self-pity. It’s not easy to find a fresh take on the immigrant, fish-out-of-water, stranger-in-a-strange-land story, but find it Ma does. Her novel is immensely entertaining. The main character, a young man who his family in San Francisco call “Shelley”…
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He showed up at my best friend Mary’s New Year’s Eve party at her parents’ apartment on West End Avenue. No one knew who invited him. Jason Brennan, I once heard a boy say. Wasn’t his nose once broken? And his mouth is too big? Jason was beautiful because he wasn’t perfect. His nose did…
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Loving it. Almost done reading! Perfect travel book, helps keep the mind sharp and in top condition. The only caveat is that, hardcover, it is hefty. Shlepping it all over Dalls/Forth Worth and Madrid Airport almost threw my elbow out of joint. Nevertheless. Highly recommend! Trigger warning: Main character, Steve Vail, is an incorrigible flirt.…
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