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The Catch Me If You Can by Jessica Nabongo. But I’d rather not.
Read November 2022 Recommended for travel fans ★ ★ 1/2 Well, this is awkward. The trouble with analyzing the autobiographical is that one is also, to some extent, analyzing the person. And that just seems rude, right? Thinking of … Continue reading
The Long Game by K. J. Parker
Read December 2022 Recommended for fans unreliable narrators ★ ★ Sadly, a miss. A first person, unnamed and quite likely unreliable narrator has to finesse a situation with demon and a traveler from a possibly mythical land. … Continue reading
Cage of Souls by Tchaikovsky
Read August 2022 Recommended for fans of old-timey literature This, then, is where I think I close at last my weary eyes, lay hand upon my brow and reflect on how it is I came to this place. Many … Continue reading
Blood Work by Michael Connelly
Read Sept-Oct 2022 Recommended for police procedural fans ★ ★ 1/2 This was a chore, despite being one of the more competently written Michael Connelly books. If you enjoyed it, fabulous. Sincerely. (And if you like Connelly but haven’t tried … Continue reading
Persuader by Lee Child
Attempted to Read July 2022 Recommended for airplanes DNF Please add this book to the tv series asap so I don’t have to read any more words. “The cop climbed out of his car exactly four minutes before he … Continue reading
The Verifiers by Jane Pek
Read May 2022 Recommended for lit fic fans ★ ★ 1/2 I should have liked The Verifiers, an amalgamation of three of my book interests: quirky New York women, mysteries, and identity exploration. Bonus, it even claimed to be about … Continue reading
Crowbones by Anne Bishop
Read April 2022 Recommended for fans. Very ardent ones. ★ ★ And so continues my love-hate relationship with Anne Bishop’s The Others series. Although, to be honest, it’s really more of a guilty pleasure-outright disgust hookup, but that’s always more … Continue reading
Silent Parade by Keigo Higashino
Read March 2022 Recommended for fans. Very ardent ones. ★ ★ I loved Higashino’s Salvation of a Saint and The Devotion of Suspect X. Malice and A Midsummer’s Equation were enjoyable, but not nearly as remarkable. This, though: this was … Continue reading
Seven Down by David Whitton
Read February 2022 Recommended for fans of Less Than Zero Not for me A character study composed of unhappy, unlikable sleeper agents, formatted as a debriefing after an equally disastrous operation. The debriefing format means it’s told retrospectively, first person, … Continue reading
Provenance by Ann Leckie
Read December, 2021 Recommended for people who don’t want to commit to the trilogy ★ ★ 1/2 Note to self: Probably you should write a review right after you finish reading, no matter how uninspired you may find … Continue reading
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