I enjoyed this book very much. I always like books where the story is told from different perspectives. In this case three members of a Canadian family in the late 1960s.
It is very well written. Lawson doesn't need all kinds of bells and whistles. The writing is straightforward, almost unobtrusively good.
This book is so much fun, just like Osman's first one about a group of elderly people solving murders.
The plot is nicely surprising. But just like all good detectives/thrillers it's not really about the plot. It's the wonderful characters and dialogues that make it so good.
Looking forward to the third and fourth of the Thursday Murder Club series.
I currently #AmReading the 4th and final book of Devin Madson's The Reborn Empire series. I've been postponing this as I don't want it to end. I love the characters, the world, the dark/gritty vibes and, of course, Madson's writing :blobcataww:
If you know of similar books/series, send me your recs?
FYI, the third book in Julie Schumacher's Payne series, 'The English Experience', is a work of equal genius to the preceding two books.
We had to import it at ruinous expense through a private contact in the US, because the philistines here in the UK, ironically, are unable to manage publishing it on time.
I've been looking forward to Sea of Tranquility by #EmilyStJohnMandel for a while, but I felt the need to re-read Station Eleven and Glass Hotel first, and then had to wait a bit for SoT to be available from the library. I started it on Wednesday and I am NOT DISAPPOINTED. I just got to the twist (is it a true twist? there was definite foreshadowing) and now I'm worried this book is going to be over way too soon. #FridayReads#Bookstodon#AmReading#Books@bookstodon
Discovered in a random #usedBookStore on #VancouverIsland: "Lisette", by Eglanton Thorne and published by The Religious Tract Society, London, some time before 1890 (probably printed 1889)
A simplistic morality tale set in earlier 19th century France. The story is not the point, but rather what it says about the late-19th century English and how they viewed their world and their place in it.
Time to play catch-up again! I finished "Red X" a few days ago:
Heartbreaking and thought-provoking story 👍👍
The monster is seriously stomach-turning👍👍
This is, so far, my favorite book of the season. It deftly alternates between horror and drama. It has kept me chewing over it for the last couple of days (ie, the best thing that horror can do). Definitely worth a read!
I finished "The Between" by Tananarive Due this morning:
There isn't much of a monster, per se, but plenty of supernatural stuff 👍
The story is consistently tense throughout and delivers gut-punch after gut-punch 👍👍
This is tied for my favorite book of the season. Even without a true monster, it is probably the most frightening book I've read this year. This is one that I would consider a must-read!
Finally, I ALSO finished "Strange Frequencies" by Peter Bebergal:
Tons of ghosts in this one, if that's your thing 👍
There's not really a story in this one (it's nonfiction) 😐
This is my favorite nonfiction book of the season, hands down. (It's been a great week for spooky books 😁) A fascinating look at how people use modern technology to bridge the gap between life and the spirit world!
@iwashyna@bookstodon Finally my public library had After Sappho on the shelf! #AmReading these smart and beautifully written, challenging, and inter-related 'cascading vignettes' of #women's lives. 'Tho things have changed on the surface, we all need to pay attention to the genitive. The masculine continues as "the patron and the possessor and the proprietor and the patriarch" in too many women's lives.