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Russell’s 2025 Year in Books
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My Friends by Fredrik Bakman
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Louisa, a homeless 18-year-old artist is “discovered” by a famous artist known as C. Jat. We later find the four letters of his name are actually the first letters of the names of his four friends. The artist realizes Louisa is “one of us” and shortly thereafter dies and leaves Louisa the most valuable of his paintings. She is rich except has no
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Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream:
"Thank-you to the Santa Cruz County library system for choosing Spare Parts by Joshua Davis as their community reads selection this year. Although published in 2014 it couldn't be more timely. Spare Parts tells the story of four undocumented teenagers"
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"I was eager to read this book because it is written from inside a prison, by a murderer becoming a writer. He writes about himself and 3 other felons, all murderers. The book describes the men's background, the crime and trial outcome, their life in "
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"This is a novella, about 100-pages, some readers will read this in one session. I came upon the book in a NYT article, it's supposed to be a book with a twist. I'm not so sure. The main character Lise quickly makes clear what her goal is when she lea"
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| This tale is told in two timelines. Some Russian women are lured into what they thought would be good-paying jobs in America, but instead are smuggled in, abused, and forced into prostitution. The other story line involves a woman detective with Bost ...more | |
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| In this 10th Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne novel the married odd couple become involved with a white nationalist group and the domestic situation of the abused spouse of one of them. Clare is an Episcopal priest and former army helicopter pilot. R ...more | |
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| This very boring novel features an alien who comes to Earth to destroy it because his species thinks humans are illogical and self destructive and thus a danger to the universe if they acquire superior technical knowledge. The alien, in human form, q ...more | |
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Devil In The Pale Moonlight by D. Hollis Anderson
The Yamanaka Factors: A Thriller by Jed Henson
Midnight Burn by T.J. Swift
Steal the Reaper by Todd Hosea
Cold Case: A Cliff Knowles Mystery by Russell Atkinson
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“That would make a good public service announcement, he mused ruefully: “Don’t use your cell phone while driving. You might not notice the serial killer ahead waiting to shoot you.”
― Death Row
― Death Row
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I have two books going right now: Defending Jacob (audiobook) by Wm. Landay and The Crossing Places (hard cover) by Elly Griffiths. Both are mysteries and I'm enjoying both, but I never recommend a book until I've finished it.
Hi Russell, I just Finished 2 good Books:1. Time will tell > Jeffrey Arher Book 1 of 2,
Book 2 is in the mail to me> The sins of the father.
2. Guilty Wives > James Patterson
What are you reading currently
