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89% complete! Phil in SF has read 25 of 28 books.
In a quiet residential area in London, a couple is discovered bound and imprisoned in …
Pretty sure this will be the last Jack Caffery I read. Damn well written, but waaaay too graphically twisted for me.
After a near-fatal car accident, a young man asks Kinsey to protect him. When he …
Shortly before I hit the road with 14 hours in the air (each way) to Lisbon, it occurred to me I would need more than one audiobook to cover the flights. By shortly, I mean about 5 minutes before I left for the airport. I vaguely remembered the Alphabet series. I wasn't expecting anything super great, but the story barely met that bar. I should have pulled something that I'd already put on my TBR.
Kinsey Millhone is a private investigator in Santa Teresa, California, modeled after Santa Barbara. Bobby Callahan hires her to investigate who tried to kill him months before in what appeared to be a car accident. Hitch is, Callahan has lost most of his memory in the crash. The crime is overly complicated, which is a thing that irritates me when it happens in crime fiction. But what really made me meh about this is that …
Shortly before I hit the road with 14 hours in the air (each way) to Lisbon, it occurred to me I would need more than one audiobook to cover the flights. By shortly, I mean about 5 minutes before I left for the airport. I vaguely remembered the Alphabet series. I wasn't expecting anything super great, but the story barely met that bar. I should have pulled something that I'd already put on my TBR.
Kinsey Millhone is a private investigator in Santa Teresa, California, modeled after Santa Barbara. Bobby Callahan hires her to investigate who tried to kill him months before in what appeared to be a car accident. Hitch is, Callahan has lost most of his memory in the crash. The crime is overly complicated, which is a thing that irritates me when it happens in crime fiction. But what really made me meh about this is that the relationship between Kinsey and Bobby is portrayed as deep and meaningful, but there's only about 4 meetings between the two before Callahan is actually knocked off. The characters and their relationships just feel so incredibly forced.
After a near-fatal car accident, a young man asks Kinsey to protect him. When he …
Was pretty sure I would need another audiobook for the trip to Lisbon and back, so I queued up a couple of Sue Grafton Alphabet series books.
Years after a meteorite strike obliterated Washington, DC—triggering an extinction-level global-warming event—Earth’s survivors have started …
The concluding book of the Lady Astronaut series starts off with Elma York finally getting to land on Mars. The 2nd Mars Expedition's mission is to establish a base on Mars for later Earth escapees. Only… of course stuff goes wrong, because space is hard. Prior to landing humans, Earth send a series of unstaffed rockets to Mars that dropped supplies. Only when Elma arrives at the drop site to pick up the supplies, which includes the atmosphere scrubber for the second dome, they find it has crash-landed and everything is a loss. The Martians can replace it by cannibalizing one of the engines of their ship, if everything works out all right. There's politics. Intrigue. Gee whiz exploration of Mars. Relationships & emotion. 60s & 70s style colonization tropes with 2020s sensibility & quality of writing. And if you get the audiobook, Kowal narrates the story herself and she …
The concluding book of the Lady Astronaut series starts off with Elma York finally getting to land on Mars. The 2nd Mars Expedition's mission is to establish a base on Mars for later Earth escapees. Only… of course stuff goes wrong, because space is hard. Prior to landing humans, Earth send a series of unstaffed rockets to Mars that dropped supplies. Only when Elma arrives at the drop site to pick up the supplies, which includes the atmosphere scrubber for the second dome, they find it has crash-landed and everything is a loss. The Martians can replace it by cannibalizing one of the engines of their ship, if everything works out all right. There's politics. Intrigue. Gee whiz exploration of Mars. Relationships & emotion. 60s & 70s style colonization tropes with 2020s sensibility & quality of writing. And if you get the audiobook, Kowal narrates the story herself and she is one of the best audiobook narrators ever. Easily 5 stars.
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Years after a meteorite strike obliterated Washington, DC—triggering an extinction-level global-warming event—Earth’s survivors have started an international effort to establish …
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.
