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Neil’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Neil’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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| The Horse by Willy Vlautin is the story of Al Ward, a 67-year-old musician and songwriter who has washed up on an abandoned mining claim bequeathed to him by a deceased relative. Al’s story is told through backstory, reflecting on his life as a talen ...more | |
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| The premise of The Lost Girl by Alan Jacobson demands that readers willingly suspend their disbelief, as the almost inconceivable events of novel unfold, but you’ll be happy you did. Revelations about twisted past and current events set damaged prota ...more | |
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| I’ve long had a soft spot for English crime mysteries and thrillers. A Very Mersey Murder by Brian L. Porter, the fifth novel is his Mersey Murder Mysteries series that features the Merseyside Police Specialist Murder Investigation Team. The series i ...more | |
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| The Concrete Alibi is the first book in a new series by legal thriller author Michael Stagg, whose writing you may know from his excellent Nate Shephard series. The new book introduces Mason Pierce, an interesting protagonist who is light years remov ...more | |
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| Cracking open a Ken Follet novel is always a treat, and his historical fiction work is as good as it gets. In Circle of Days, Follet tackles the creation of Stonehenge, the mysterious monolith on England’s Salisbury Plain that dates back to circa 2,5 ...more | |
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| It’s unusual for me to revisit a short series after I’ve already reviewed one title, but completing The Bell Sisters trilogy by Norwegian author Lars Mytting moved me to do so. This endeavor is a spectacular accomplishment, and I feel strongly that i ...more | |
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| I’ve been reading Mr. Irving’s novels since a friend first A Prayer for Owen Meany many years ago, hurrying out to pick up each new release as soon as it lands in the bookstore. I recently read a couple while I was pondering a project of my own, whic ...more | |
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| With the recent passing of author Greg Iles, it seemed like a perfect time to review one of his novels. Mr. Iles has been one of my favorite writers over the past couple of decades. I’ve often mentioned my affinity for his outstanding series of Penn ...more | |
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| In an interesting twist on the legal thriller genre, Victor Mentos has written a story in which the protagonist, Piper Danes, is a guardian ad litem or GAL—an attorney appointed to represent the interests of a minor. The first book in a new series ca ...more | |
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| The Midnight Lawyer is the first book in a new legal thriller series from author J.J. Miller, who consistently turns out one exciting novel after another across multiple genres. Attorney Hank Luger leaves a well-established career in Washington DC an ...more | |
“fifteen-minute recess and come back or we can adjourn for the weekend. I would prefer to hear from another witness or two if possible,”
― A House on Liberty Street
― A House on Liberty Street
“deeply into pile carpeting that threatens to swallow us whole. A burnished steel FTW logo stretches across the wall with the tagline Feeding the World just below it. Black-and-white photos of basic foodstuffs dot the walls—bushels of maize and soybeans, fields of grain. Feeding the world, my ass, I think as we’re shuttled toward a meeting room. I’ve done some reading up on these folks. FTW is a commodity-trading firm that works to manipulate the futures market to drive up prices. There seems to be nothing that the world’s bankers believe they shouldn’t be free to exploit, including food staples. I imagine that in their perfect world, bankers would pocket a penny or two with every bite.”
― Plane in the Lake
― Plane in the Lake
“To realize that one walks the earth alone is at once profoundly terrifying and profoundly liberating. If nobody else cares, I don’t have to, either. There are no longer expectations to live up to, no appearances to keep up, no possibility of continuing to fail myself and others.”
― A House on Liberty Street
― A House on Liberty Street
“deeply into pile carpeting that threatens to swallow us whole. A burnished steel FTW logo stretches across the wall with the tagline Feeding the World just below it. Black-and-white photos of basic foodstuffs dot the walls—bushels of maize and soybeans, fields of grain. Feeding the world, my ass, I think as we’re shuttled toward a meeting room. I’ve done some reading up on these folks. FTW is a commodity-trading firm that works to manipulate the futures market to drive up prices. There seems to be nothing that the world’s bankers believe they shouldn’t be free to exploit, including food staples. I imagine that in their perfect world, bankers would pocket a penny or two with every bite.”
― Plane in the Lake
― Plane in the Lake
“fifteen-minute recess and come back or we can adjourn for the weekend. I would prefer to hear from another witness or two if possible,”
― A House on Liberty Street
― A House on Liberty Street
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