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Best read of the year

Nobel prize for literature, really?

I keep falling asleep on this one

I started reading this because Cheerfulness Breaks In ended on a cliffhanger. More than 40% through Northbridge Rectory before clarifying sentence relieved the tension

Can’t put this one down. I won’t say I didn’t see it coming, but wow, what a twist. Highly recommend A Place of Execution

Very slow going. Half way through and bang! Hard to imagine what will be covered in the second. The trial I guess

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself, I am thinking, as the sun comes out! And the sea at once changes from miserable gray to heavenly blue.
— May Sarton in At Seventy: a journal

Grrarh! This is an exciting book

Did James Thompson play a trick on us before he died? These are far darker than noir. Leena Lehtolainen story is the best of the bunch. No one depraved in that one

Can’t recommend this book. Had another plot twist I didn’t see coming and I didn’t like “I blame it on the Jews”

Oh boy, Lorac books are often slow to start. This one has a good plot twist we’ll set up in the first 40 pages

Written about the United States by someone who gets talking points on US politics from BBC. BBC reports sound like they watch faux news