Sometimes there feels like there is just never enough time to catch up. I could read all day and all night and never read all the things that look interesting. There’s so many classic books I still need to read, I wonder how I’ll ever manage to get to the new fantastic books coming out.Continue reading “10 books i haven’t read”
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the cuckoo’s calling part 2
We enter part 2 of The Cuckoo’s Calling (Kindle here, my thoughts on part 1 here) to follow our heroes while they gather more clues. I actually feel more like I am in the board game clue than in a story. If security guard was in the wash room, and the boyfriend at the club,Continue reading “the cuckoo’s calling part 2”
the cuckoo’s calling part 1
It is a not so secret desire of mine to become a police detective. It is my back up plan, my alternate universe career, and the subject of quite a few daydreams. I can’t stop watching cop shows or reading murder mysteries. (And yeah, I know that’s not exactly how it works in real life.)Continue reading “the cuckoo’s calling part 1”
boy’s life by robert mccammon
Last week, when I was walking to work, I saw people putting leaves on trees. There was someone on a ladder, someone in a raised platform, and someone on the ground, and they were all using wire to put fake leaves on a tree that had none. When Cory, the narrator in Boy’s Life by RobertContinue reading “boy’s life by robert mccammon”
past favorites: unbroken by laura hillenbrand
I think I have recommended Unbroken to everyone, whether they were asking for a book recommendation or not (Kindle here). Even though I read this a few years ago, I often still think about it and the incredible spirit of Louis Zamperini. Unbroken is a story of how Louie, an Olympic-qualifying runner, became lost atContinue reading “past favorites: unbroken by laura hillenbrand”
in cold blood
Our book club book this month was In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Have you read it? It’s a really amazing, in-depth account of a horrible murder of a family in Western Kansas in 1959. I’m an editor, and I actually interned at the Kansas City Star, which comes up often in this book. IContinue reading “in cold blood”