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Mike Finn

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Mike is Currently Reading

Mike Finn is currently reading

Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)

by Mick Herron

bookshelves: audiobook, crime, crime-series, 1-in-a-series, currently-reading, thriller

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"I think the prologue was meant as an enticing promise of a clever thriller with spy-adjacent skullduggery ahead, but it almost lost me because it felt competent but generic.

By contrast, being in Sarah’s head as she suffered through a dinner party with rich arsehole that her husband is trying to win as a client, was electrifying, and that was before the bomb went off.

I want a lot more of Sarah." — 1 hour, 59 min ago

May 02, 2026 02:10AM

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It's Different This Time

by Joss Richard (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: canadian, kindle, romance, currently-reading

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"The first three chapters have confronted me with my prejudice against Romance novels. I usually pass over books with covers like this without a second thought, writing them off as formulaic fluff, the cupcakes of genre fiction.

The thing is, a well made cupcake can be a taste sensation.

This is well written, engaging, and cliche-free. I like the protagonist and I want to know what happens next." — May 01, 2026 02:14AM

Apr 30, 2026 07:11AM

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A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)

by Robert Jackson Bennett (Goodreads Author)

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Mike’s Quotes

“She nursed a second beer while she tried not to race through the last three chapters of The Lens and the Dapplegrim. Brand was a blur beyond her vision, and the noise piled up against the walls, leaving her alone in the center of a perfect sphere of story. Each word tumbled into the next, a rockslide of prose that would end in a dramatic confrontation between Investigator Beckett and the deliciously devious Aramy, with Leena’s life in the balance. At least that’s where she expected things to go. The book had a way of confounding her expectations, and every time it did, she experienced a thrill of delight.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

tags: joy-of-reading

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“No one left alive in Basic today could verify the window's origin though. Like all myths, this one became history the moment enough people chose to believe it.”
― Giano Cromley, American Mythology

tags: belief-and-history, myths

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“But every life she can imagine building for herself just feels like throwing a tarp over a crime scene. It’s just another way to carve out the chunk of her brain that still holds Delilah inside. Cora is only alive right now because the story of Delilah Zeng is behind aquarium glass in her mind.”
― Kylie Lee Baker, Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

tags: grief-and-loss

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“No human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice. Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watching person; even a mischievous little chimney, or a dormer like a dimple, can catch up a beholder with a sense of fellowship; but a house arrogant and hating, never off guard, can only be evil.”
― Shriley Jackson

tags: the-haunting-of-hill-house

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“No Human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice. Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watching person; even a mischievous little chimney, or a dormer like a dimple, can catch up a beholder with a sense of fellowship; but a house arrogant and hating, never off guard, can only be evil.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

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