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42% complete! Phil in SF has read 12 of 28 books.
Years after a meteorite strike obliterated Washington, DC—triggering an extinction-level global-warming event—Earth’s survivors have started …
first audiobook for this trip
@travisfw no idea what the French call it. i don't speak a lick of French.
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the …
The Treatment is pretty intense, so I'm going to read Elder Race when the former gets a little too much.
In a quiet residential area in London, a couple is discovered bound and imprisoned in …
She poured coffee from a cafetiere into two Isle of Aran mugs, spooned sugar into an earthenware pot and set it on a tray.
— The Treatment by Mo Hayder (Jack Caffery, #2) (11%)
new vocabulary: cafetière
In a quiet residential area in London, a couple is discovered bound and imprisoned in …
Come on, let's have a shufti at the park, shall we?
— The Treatment by Mo Hayder (Jack Caffery, #2) (2%)
always getting new vocabulary from UK books: shufti
In a quiet residential area in London, a couple is discovered bound and imprisoned in their own home. Savagely battered …
Cop Hater (1956) is the first 87th Precinct police procedural novel by Ed McBain. The …
Three detectives are killed in quick succession in Isola, a fictionalized version of New York City. Fictionalized, according to the author, so he could take liberties with how the cops in New York City actually operate. Full of dames and men who appreciate the swell of a woman's chest and gangs that rumble, cops that harass suspects based on hunches, having a drink or two on the job and a general lack of respect for the Bill of Rights that predated the Warren court. The crime is solved through luck, accumulating evidence (I like this part) and a not very smart impatient criminal. There's a lot of copaganda in it, but the police are not portrayed as being particularly smart.
Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past …
Discharged from the Barrayan Military Academy, Miles Vorkosigan chances on a jumpship with a rebellious …
Miles Vorkosigan washes out military school and heads to another planetary system to spend time with his grandmother and her family. There he decides to bail out some down & outers using his name and a bit of family money and do some smuggling/inter system trade to recover the money. Things go poorly and the only way through each obstacle is bluffing, and at every step he succeeds but has to face every larger obstacles afterward.
As a sci-fi adventure plot, it's adequate. But Miles "I'm a nice guy using my position to try to get in the pants of the woman who reports to me" vibe really brought me down. At least the character who raped women in the previous book wasn't given a "I was just following orders and feel bad about" pass from the narrative. Which it seemed like it would. There's still some amount of "we …
Miles Vorkosigan washes out military school and heads to another planetary system to spend time with his grandmother and her family. There he decides to bail out some down & outers using his name and a bit of family money and do some smuggling/inter system trade to recover the money. Things go poorly and the only way through each obstacle is bluffing, and at every step he succeeds but has to face every larger obstacles afterward.
As a sci-fi adventure plot, it's adequate. But Miles "I'm a nice guy using my position to try to get in the pants of the woman who reports to me" vibe really brought me down. At least the character who raped women in the previous book wasn't given a "I was just following orders and feel bad about" pass from the narrative. Which it seemed like it would. There's still some amount of "we still have to honor him for the good stuff he did" though.
In his first case as lead investigator with London’s crack murder squad, Detective Jack Caffery …
First in a series, where Jack Caffery is the new detective in the unit and gets a case where 4 bodies of prostitutes are found buried in a shallow grave. Suspicion falls on a few different folks. The author includes a few chapters from the perspective of the criminal in a fairly transparent try at misleading the reader. Once you get to the twist, you'll see it too. Enjoyable for me because the detective work is less movie plot magic wandism and more basic forensics. However, there's a fair amount of sensationalism. And as for the crime itself, many aspects of it seem unlikely and overly intricate to further the sensationalism and plot twists.
Cop Hater (1956) is the first 87th Precinct police procedural novel by Ed McBain. The …
Checked out from San Diego Public Library through Link+ & SFPL.
Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the …
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Discharged from the Barrayan Military Academy, Miles Vorkosigan chances on a jumpship with a rebellious pilot and arranges to take …
