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Jeanette is on page 134 of 288 of I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever
Outstanding. I read all the way to Part 4 in one sitting. Literally could not put it down. Oh is Barbara Rae-Venter worth reading. Explicit and chronological succinct and perfection to exactness in definitions and process. Top notch non-fiction.
Feb 24, 2023 06:04AM Add a comment
I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

Jeanette
Jeanette is on page 115 of 312 of All the Dark Places
This is the first book in this genre this year (2023) that seems a good read. The first chapter itself pulled me in to embedding immediately. That's SO SO rare in any modern women/wives sagas. I like her writing and her people are NOT over the top. Even the narrator switching is not a detraction. Same time period to the day and both focus on Jay's murder.
Jan 20, 2023 05:54AM Add a comment
All the Dark Places

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Jeanette is 18% done with The Violins of Saint-Jacques
This truly takes you to another time and place. Humid, dripping descriptions.
Jan 13, 2023 06:39AM Add a comment
The Violins of Saint-Jacques

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Jeanette is on page 40 of 284 of Hons and Rebels
The Introduction and pieces by Jessica Mitford before the beginning were excellent insights if you had read all of Nancy Mitford's works. I have. She is the "Jassy" in all of Nancy's books. Running off to the American Communists was only the beginning. I LOVED how their Mother hated the title and wanted "Red Sheep" for this one. LOL!
Jan 13, 2023 06:34AM Add a comment
Hons and Rebels

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Jeanette is 16% done with Still Burning: Half a Century of Chicago, from the Streets to the Corridors of Power: A Memoir
This will be a start and stop times 20 read for me. Only can take small portions at a time. Knowing every stated place and in exact era. Not because of emotion of grief, but far more a terrible sadness. Holmes School was MY first school. I remember it better than he did and I didn't fall off the roof.
Jan 04, 2023 05:29AM Add a comment
Still Burning: Half a Century of Chicago, from the Streets to the Corridors of Power: A Memoir

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Jeanette is on page 167 of 900 of Collected Stories
I am mesmerized by some of these. This book is worth owning for the locale and time period lens alone. But it is in most regards quite unlike his novels. Far blunter and not so much in that circuitous style of lengths that are known signature Faulkner prose. Will not finish this one this month but over a longer period of time. Hair and A Rose for Emily! Both, scald to the core a determination of that period.
Jan 03, 2023 06:06AM Add a comment
Collected Stories

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Jeanette is on page 128 of 320 of The Stolen Hours (Joe Talbert, #3)
This is the best book I've read by him SO far, and I think I have read 3 others. This point of view narration is done far above average. A good writer here with an excellent plotted duo scenario composite. Neither one is "turnaway" easy. That's unusual as one story line is most always much more of a pull than the other.
Dec 25, 2022 07:34AM Add a comment
The Stolen Hours (Joe Talbert, #3)

Jeanette
Jeanette is on page 81 of 190 of Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
EEEK! I feel like I'm back in Grad. school 3000 counseling hours with Dr. Kajivick (Philosophy) as my associate mentor/partner. McCarthy wants to fly next to the sun. He must believe he is his own galaxy- or at the very least a 12 planet solar system with Cormac as the dominant sun/star.
Dec 10, 2022 05:59AM Add a comment
Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

Jeanette
Jeanette is on page 79 of 384 of In the Shadow of a Queen
Very wordy and filled with stilted language of the period. Sobbing by Mama on repeat. Fairly accurate coverage for the rigid mores of this Royal family. Lots of telling and telling. Almost reporting-as in the letters. Gushing was an art form and it loses my interest overall fairly quickly.
Dec 04, 2022 11:49AM Add a comment
In the Shadow of a Queen

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Jeanette is on page 55 of 352 of A Rip Through Time (A Rip Through Time, #1)
I might not go on with this one much longer. This time travel is too cheesy in transfers and I'm not feeling any believability.
Dec 04, 2022 05:56AM Add a comment
A Rip Through Time (A Rip Through Time, #1)

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Jeanette is on page 79 of 341 of The Lost Girls
Clear writing in a prose flow that defines the characters well. The switching between time periods and voices is mildly distracting although not vastly unrelated- so it doesn't abrupt you with excess verbiage. Some repetition but not enough to slog you down. Sad.
Dec 02, 2022 05:34AM Add a comment
The Lost Girls

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Jeanette is on page 66 of 272 of Song of the Dead (DI Westphall #1)
The flow and writing prose form of this novel for the genre it is included within is ABOVE average. Way above. There are sentences too now and again that I've read twice because of the posit holding depth. NOT done in a 2 paragraph wordiness. Only thought I'd read a short intro and couldn't leave it. Very thought and intellect worthy beyond the placement in Estonia which is excellent in feel.
Nov 28, 2022 06:08AM Add a comment
Song of the Dead (DI Westphall #1)

Jeanette
Jeanette is on page 66 of 272 of Song of the Dead (DI Westphall #1)
The flow and writing prose form of this novel for the genre it is included within in ABOVE average. Way above. There are sentences too now and again that I've read twice because of the posit holding depth. NOT done in a 2 paragraph wordiness. Only thought I read a short intro and couldn't leave it. Very thought and intellect worthy beyond the placement in Estonia which is excellent in feel.
Nov 28, 2022 05:26AM Add a comment
Song of the Dead (DI Westphall #1)

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Jeanette is on page 45 of 352 of The Distant Dead
This book has a terrific beginning. I'm absolutely intrigued. This does NOT seem like a YA category so far at all. A good start truly captures my heart. Better written than I at all anticipated!
Nov 21, 2022 06:08AM Add a comment
The Distant Dead

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Jeanette is 47% done with The Devil and the Dark Water
I'm shocked that it seems like here is an author who can actually put humans in the sensibility and cognition of their own time. VERY well. Old Tom, the devil demon is very much alive.
Nov 19, 2022 05:28AM Add a comment
The Devil and the Dark Water

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Jeanette is on page 69 of 416 of Nameless Serenade: Nocturne for Commissario Ricciardi (Commissario Ricciardi #9)
This one is the best of the Ricciardi series, IMHO. Autumn in Naples and immense description is worthy of the plot and depth of under characters. Maione is the best partner, secondary eyes I've come across in maybe 100 different copper series.
Nov 19, 2022 05:22AM Add a comment
Nameless Serenade: Nocturne for Commissario Ricciardi (Commissario Ricciardi #9)

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Jeanette is 12% done with The Devil and the Dark Water
This is a lengthy book but I may savor it slowly. It is solidly formatted in its exact time period. Something I rarely experience in the last 15 years. And I do read extensively.
Nov 17, 2022 03:40PM Add a comment
The Devil and the Dark Water

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Jeanette is 22% done with Home Before Dark
I am not sure this is worth the read. Coming close to a DNF. Switching perceptive between generations? Too wordy, less moody. Do not like the form. Not unclear at all, but too redundant in messaging.
Nov 15, 2022 04:10PM Add a comment
Home Before Dark

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Jeanette is on page 48 of 336 of The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All
Clear prose and clean, quick flow. What an interesting combination of energy and habits from her origin in Margeurite. It's unusual to read about people from nearly any past period which are in this particular economic group too. Not rich at all, but not starving impoverished either. Now she would have been divorced within a year.
Nov 14, 2022 05:30AM Add a comment
The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All

Jeanette
Jeanette is on page 224 of 337 of Such a Quiet Place
The first half was slow, very. I almost made this DNF. But at the 4th of July it turned into a 4 plus. Depth of personality carving here. But this minutia of neighborhood affiliation is not for all. Patience needed!
Nov 11, 2022 01:03PM Add a comment
Such a Quiet Place

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Jeanette is on page 85 of 384 of Into The Lion's Mouth: The True Story of Dusko Popov: World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond
Between this book and the last game of the World Series (Houston won at home in 6), I didn't go to sleep as early as I wanted to. Popov truly was 007, even down to the details of lifestyle. Massively great talker with incredible intuition despite any complications. Brilliant Serbian but really English to the core.
Nov 06, 2022 05:38AM Add a comment
Into The Lion's Mouth: The True Story of Dusko Popov: World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond

Jeanette
Jeanette is on page 76 of 306 of The Good Old Boys (Hewey Calloway, #1)
Oh this is enjoyable and seems so REAL. 1906 was for these people so elementally different than just 100 years later. Almost as different as humans can conceive. Freedom and reality were completely different quantities. These brings me back to books I've read in my early life.
Oct 31, 2022 06:39AM Add a comment
The Good Old Boys (Hewey Calloway, #1)

Jeanette
Jeanette is on page 89 of 384 of Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
This woman is just completely outlier. Even within her childhood. How could she have left those 3 kids? I sure wish people would read this level of non-fiction and drop all the sentimental and melodrama WWII pap fiction that floods the market. Real is SO much more exact and intrepid. People DID what was needed. And it wasn't fun.
Oct 29, 2022 05:41AM Add a comment
Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

Jeanette
Jeanette is on page 69 of 446 of The Sleeping Nymph
This one is not an easy read and quite harder to enjoy than #1 was. I'm getting sick of reading about the painting itself. Also there are too many secrets to fully connote what is presently occurring. She is an above average writer of form / translations accomplished here though. For sure. Not a one so far in this tale approaches any direction of happy. Sickest prime character all around I've read. Realistic!
Oct 23, 2022 05:35AM Add a comment
The Sleeping Nymph

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Jeanette is on page 59 of 400 of The Couple at No. 9
Easy, easy read. And the people are NOT obnoxious and/or amoral morons. Candy read between difficult other languages and styles of writing. I do appreciate a simpler form and flow.
Oct 22, 2022 07:07AM Add a comment
The Couple at No. 9

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Jeanette is on page 104 of 304 of Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity
There is next to nothing so far in this book that I didn't know, observe, live through etc. I hope with Mohammed Ali section there is more. This is for people who don't know a thing about so called "legends" before 1980. I'm surprised he didn't get James Dean in there somewhere. LOL!
Oct 17, 2022 08:37AM Add a comment
Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity

Jeanette
Jeanette is on page 72 of 350 of Sometimes People Die
Having read hundreds of books so far this year, this particular book holds a writing style that I ADORE. Way up there in the top 5. He uses that sharp, precise wit savvy construction that relates more in 12 words than some verbose and erudite attempts do within 4 pages. And the tale has enthralled. Physician, heal thyself! Best read of the month hands down.
Oct 10, 2022 06:25AM Add a comment
Sometimes People Die

Jeanette
Jeanette is on page 64 of 256 of The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women
Really sharp personal journalist's experiences related, as well as the subject trailer core, within the HUGE danger of the Camorra on home ground. This beyond the personalities, is best I've read in decades upon the complex and encompassed webs that are larger than and literally the 2nd government of huge tracts of Italy. At ALL levels. Traditional gender roles vs reality. Enthralling read.
Oct 08, 2022 05:49AM Add a comment
The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women

Jeanette
Jeanette is on page 53 of 379 of Everyone in Their Place: The Summer of Commissario Ricciardi
Such a good writer. Commissario Ricciardi's view of the remnants of murder! Those visions hitting him commonly become truly macabre. His character is too severe to connect with, to embed- IMHO. But the copy is far more than just his identity and nature alone.
Oct 06, 2022 05:41AM Add a comment
Everyone in Their Place: The Summer of Commissario Ricciardi

Jeanette
Jeanette is on page 59 of 338 of Puppies
Oh this is SUPERB. It's the one with a Romano base that I know the "ending" for already because I read Bread. He is as good writing dialogue as Horowitz. Maybe better.
Sep 23, 2022 05:57AM Add a comment
Puppies

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