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Book 54 The second book in the Aurora Teagarden series is my least favorite from Harris so far. It starts out pretty well – Roe inherits the estate of a friend from the Real Murders club. An old lady named Jane who died of… Continue Reading “A Bone to Pick, by Charlaine Harris”
Book 53 I don’t know why I thought it would be cool to read a book about how gawdawful it was to live in the Dust Bowl in the 1930’s, but there it is. Egan writes about a whole bunch of families in several… Continue Reading “The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan”
Book 52 Small town librarian is a member of a little club of weird people that like to study true crime. Famous murders to be exact. One night she arrives for a meeting and finds another member bludgeoned to death in and arranged just… Continue Reading “Real Murders, by Charlaine Harris”
Books 50 and 51 The Harper Connelly mysteries are such easy reads that I figured I would finish out the series. An Ice Cold Grave has Harper called in to find a missing teenaged boy. She finds that several such boys have gone missing… Continue Reading “An Ice Cold Grave and Grave Secret, by Charlaine Harris”
Book 49 File under “books everyone else read in high school”, so I will not worry about the spoilers. Act One: We are introduced to our anti-hero. He lives in Algiers, lives in an apartment, vaguely socializes with some of his neighbors. His… Continue Reading “The Stranger, by Albert Camus”
Book 48 Getting to the Jane Austen I hadn’t read yet. Mansfield Park was a later novel and some of the critics called it “more mature”. Austen has a formula: a young lady has little fortune but a few connections and spends some time… Continue Reading “Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen”
Book 47 Our old pal Philip Marlowe is caught up in two different crimes – the murder of a bar owner and a jewel heist that ends in murder. As in most hard-boiled capers, you never know if the cops are good or bad… Continue Reading “Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler”
Book 46 Even though I am in the middle of two other books, I ran across Grave Surprise – the second book in the Harper Connelly series – at the library and checked it out on a whim. Then today, a tornado siren interrupted… Continue Reading “Grave Surprise, by Charlaine Harris”
Book 45 I hadn’t thought to dig in to the rest of the books from Harris, who writes the Sookie Stackhouse novels. But Grave Sight, the first in a somewhat shorter series of books, was in the free book exchange at the library, so… Continue Reading “Grave Sight, by Charlaine Harris”
Book 44 The other day at the library’s Used Book Store, a lady came in all excited to find us and ended up selecting two books: Saturday, my favorite of all the Ian McEwans and State of Wonder, which I was halfway through. I… Continue Reading “State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett”
The Next Dark Age 