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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.

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.

This truly takes you to another time and place. Humid, dripping descriptions.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.