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Mark’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Mark’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Mark Stevens
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in Chapel Hill, N.C. , The United States
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Philip Kerr, “The Other Side of Silence”
Bernie Gunther is “bored as hell,” which is one reason he contemplates self-destruction in his signature wry style for the first few pages of The Other Side of Silence. He longs for the old days of working the murder desk in Berlin. Now he’s a concierge at a hotel on the French Riviera. It’s 1956. … … Continue reading →
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No Lie Lasts Forever
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2025
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The Fireballer
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2023
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Antler Dust (The Allison Coil Mystery Series Book 1)
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2007
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12 editions
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Buried by the Roan (Allison Coil, #2)
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2011
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Trapline (An Allison Coil Mystery, 3)
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2014
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Lake of Fire
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2015
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5 editions
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The Melancholy Howl (Allison Coil Mystery #5)
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2018
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3 editions
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| Bernie Gunther is “bored as hell,” which is one reason he contemplates self-destruction in his signature wry style for the first few pages of The Other Side of Silence. He longs for the old days of working the murder desk in Berlin. Now he’s a concie ...more | |
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| Amy Rigby keeps it real. Whether it’s lyrics for her songs or details for her memoir, she takes us deep into her thought process and what it’s like to cobble together life as musician. Girl To Country is a stellar sequel to Girl To City. It’s grounde ...more | |
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| It’s been nine years without spying. “For many years, longer than I wanted to think about, I had lived on the edge, at the verge. I was good at what I did: fast when fast was needed, slow when that seemed to promise better results, always efficient, ...more | |
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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
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Is stealing art from museums “a magical escape into a remote and private world,” the only activity that makes … life worth living (German psychoanalyst Werner Muensterberger)? Is it a belief that the thief’s “emotional attachment to a piece is deeper ...more |
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Call me easy, but I’ll read Colum McCann for the sentences. The rhythms. The ease of storytelling. The natural feeling. He writes in the tone of “let’s sit down and I’ll tell you a story.” From the opening page of Twist: “I am not here to make an elegy ...more |
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| Microplastics in our bloodstream. Self-combusting rivers. The increase in atmospheric carbon levels. On and on. There were tens of thousands of years when humankind didn’t dig up or burn up or refashion natural resources at a giant scale and then the ...more | |
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Sentences come firing like ammo. Crooks is built for speed. The story is a zipping bullet of scams and cons and action and family drama. It’s an All-American saga about a crime family that knows wrong from right and wrong is just fine, thank you. Cro ...more |
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| Risa. Guilia. Fab. Sav. They are all there in the first few pages. The trouble is already sunk deep into the bones of the opening moments. The problem is intractable. The mood is sour. The future, for Risa, looks like a long, dim road. And if it’s ba ...more | |
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| I never thought I’d use the phrase “no spoilers here” when writing a review of a memoir but that’s the case with The Harder I Fight The More I Love. Maybe the moment is explored in other reviews, but I’m not going to touch it. It’s a doozie. I can im ...more | |
“Allison Coil stroked the soft neck of the massive bull elk. The skin was still warm to the touch. She felt the smooth fur on the animal’s head, looked at the crimson dot on its skull that leaked blood, then pressed her index finger against the spot where death had found an opening.”
― Antler Dust
― Antler Dust
“If I hadn’t come back today to check on you boys, which one of you would have taken this puppy apart?” she said. “I was going to wing it,”
― Antler Dust
― Antler Dust
“Death, she had learned, is simply a corpse you carry around underneath your skin. Until one day it pops free.”
― Antler Dust
― Antler Dust
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| A Million More Pages: February 2023 Cover Hunt | 28 | 52 | Feb 28, 2023 07:20AM |
“The difference between a regular Catholic education and a Jesuit education is the difference between the army and the marines.”
― The Heart of Darkness Club
― The Heart of Darkness Club
“Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.”
― The Heart of Darkness Club
― The Heart of Darkness Club
“I didn't offer to help him carry any of his stuff. That's the unwritten code between cabbies and movers.... It's his punishment for tricking the cab driver into playing Mayflower, because he knows he's not going to give you a tip, and so do you.”
― The Heart of Darkness Club
― The Heart of Darkness Club
“I began to parse the sentence. This is what English majors do. It's what we're trained to do. We don't know how to do anything else, except drive cabs.”
― The Heart of Darkness Club
― The Heart of Darkness Club
“One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of existence, read a novel by Albert Camus. Pretty soon you'll be so baffled you'll forget the question.”
― The Heart of Darkness Club
― The Heart of Darkness Club
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Jan 25, 2023 05:50AM
Phil -- Try Mark54.Stevens@gmail.com I gotta head back to Mancos on Friday morning, the 3rd. Head back early .... Alas. What about Tuesday the 31st?
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Mark wrote: "Philip Chip wrote: "Mark wrote: "Philip Chip wrote: "Hey Mark! Wow, look at you! Congrats on all the great books. Still have my autographed copy of Antler Dust. What do you recommend I read next of..."Coffee sounds good, would have come to see you at TC but going to a concert that night. Friday AM the 3rd? Is there a way to PM on here? Last email I have for you is dpsk12.org ;-)
Philip Chip wrote: "Mark wrote: "Philip Chip wrote: "Hey Mark! Wow, look at you! Congrats on all the great books. Still have my autographed copy of Antler Dust. What do you recommend I read next of yours?"Hey Phil! ..." I would love to. I am actually going to be in Denver next week (we live in SW Colorado now). Event at Tattered Cover Thursday night (McGregor Square) for The Fireballer ... 6 PM on Feb. 2. Let me know if you have time for coffee during the week?
Mark wrote: "Philip Chip wrote: "Hey Mark! Wow, look at you! Congrats on all the great books. Still have my autographed copy of Antler Dust. What do you recommend I read next of yours?"Hey Phil! Regards, rega..."
I'm doing great! Should grab a drink sometime and catch up. I will give one of those two a read, maybe Fireballer since opening day is just around the corner. Go Rox, sigh ;-)
Philip Chip wrote: "Hey Mark! Wow, look at you! Congrats on all the great books. Still have my autographed copy of Antler Dust. What do you recommend I read next of yours?"Hey Phil! Regards, regards. Well I think The Fireballer is a different flavor, but seems to be doing pretty well. Maybe take a look and see if it might be up your alley? Otherwise, book two in the mystery series is Buried by The Roan. Hope you're well!
Hey Mark! Wow, look at you! Congrats on all the great books. Still have my autographed copy of Antler Dust. What do you recommend I read next of yours?
Good early morning Mark, thanks for the welcome and have a great weekend too!
Not me, Sherrie -- no MFA in my pocket. I would have loved the chance to pursue one, but it's not me. Cheers !Mark
Hey, finally someone I know! Well, sort of. You are the Mark Stevens who got his MFA from NU in CW, right?
Thanks much for including me among your goodreads freinds, Mark. Want to wish you the very best in all.Namaste, jesse
Nice to find someone else who thinks highly of Jane Eyre and A Tale of Two Cities. :^)
Nice to find someone else who thinks highly of Jane Eyre and A Tale of Two Cities. :^)
Hey Mark... It's good to be with you on Goodreads...Terry
Hi Mark,Thanks for befriending me here as well as in real-life!
- Beth
