Day: September 23, 2019
Terry Pratchett: Guards! Guards!
This is a book that ought to be read today more than ever: The eighth Discworld novel and the first book of the Night Watch subseries — but first and foremost, an exploration of just how a political system can fail and slip into dictatorship right before everybody’s eyes. Whatever it was that motivated Pratchett […]
Read MoreToni Morrison: Beloved
The book that accompanied me throughout this third week of September 2019, bit by bit, in both audio and the print version. And oh, what a writer the world lost when Toni Morrison died. This wasn’t my first book by her, but it brought home her extraordinary qualities as a writer all over again: There […]
Read MoreTrudi Canavan: The Magicians’ Guild
The first book of Canavan’s Black Magician trilogy and, while it started out enjoyable enough, another book that ultimately failed to live up to my expectations. (It’s by no means awful, but it also didn’t entice me to continue with the series, however much the ending may have be trying to do just that.) The […]
Read MoreMargery Allingham: The White Cottage Mystery
Allingham’s first mystery, and it clearly shows off her talent as a writer from the start. As in the first Albert Campion book (The Crime at Black Dudley) and several of the subsequent Campion mysteries, there’s an international “detour” — here: literally so — that is not in any way, shape and form necessary to […]
Read MoreSofi Oksanen: Fegefeuer (The Purge)
Based on everything I’d previously heard about this book, it took me quite a while to get up my nerve to read it, because I knew I’d be in for a fairly merciless game of psychological hares and foxes — which however, of course, meant that it would be a natural choice for the “Psych” […]
Read MoreBingo call: 9/23/19 – Dark Academia
Reblogged from: Moonlight Murder Dark Academia: Any mystery, suspense, supernatural or horror that takes place at a school – high school, college, boarding school, etc. Non-genre-specific square. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1956523/bingo-call-9-23-19
Read MoreHalloween Bingo 2019: The Third Week
Well, the third week really hit my bingo experience out of the ballpark this year — and not only Pbecause it finished with my first completed bingo; that was actually just the icing on the cake. But it included no less than three absolutely knock-out fabulous books, plus a fourth that was almost as good […]
Read MoreJoy Ellis: The Guilty Ones
Aaah, what a joy to move from my last book, which was so-so at best, to an absolute stunner! I had every faith this was going to be the case, and Ellis delivers in spades — in a mystery that this time comes calling so close to DI Jackman’s home that in reality he would […]
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