to escape this pandemic, more cases, stalled vaccines…. some good mysteries though. New to me author A. K. Turner, 2021 Body Language. Good mystery, interesting and different characters. A UK mortuary technician and a fried cop. Make an interesting pair. … Continue reading →
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, 2020. Interesting book, choosing to live after assuming other versions of a life, and the ending was predictable. But it was the ending I wanted.
Continue reading →Ian Rankin’s new Rebus book, A Song for Dark Times, 2020, is very good. Interesting reading about Scottish internment camps. Good plot, good characters as ever. First time reading Kristen Lapionka, The last place you look, 2017. It was not … Continue reading →
Interesting book, just started. Not sure who this author is, but so far, so good. Philip Kennicott. 2020
Continue reading →Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 2019. An entertaining retelling of the story of Achilles, half god, half man. Interesting. A novel. Greenwood by Michael Christie, 2019. Good novel, long and lots of trees feature in it. Big time leaps … Continue reading →
The Untouchable by John Banville, 2009. Such a good writer. Not a light book, a bit dark but great character and so perceptive about people. And so well written. Ian Rankin wrote a book a long time ago, and it … Continue reading →
The Mirror and the Light, 2020, by Hilary Mantel. Oh my, poor Cromwell! Very long book but it’s all conversations and really interesting. Certainly brings those people to life. Six Months in Sudan, 2009, James Maskalyk. His first book, really … Continue reading →
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd. She wrote it many years ago during WWII, it was not published for 30 years. Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. Lovely book, sort of plot less but it … Continue reading →
Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope into Action; A Memoir , 2019, by David Fajgenbaum. A doctor in training who almost dies each time his disease reoccurs. Amazing survival, doing his own research to find a cure. … Continue reading →
In the Footsteps of Sheep Tales of a Journey Through Scotland, Walking, Spinning, and Knitting Socks 2015 by Debbie Zawinski Thought this book was going to be a bit flaky, but it is not. She writes well, as she travels … Continue reading →