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pickMy first Inspector Banks book and I have to say I‘m a fan. While it was written many years ago now - leading to some outdated scenes (smoking in an office!) - it still contained some frank and interesting observations about changing views and gender roles, marriage, sexuality and policing - all while covering three interesting and entertaining mysteries. Definitely going to be back for more!
pickBk3 of May is finished. I did decide to go back and reread the DCI Banks series, all 28 of them! This is bk1, written in 1987 it‘s a bit dated of course(telephone boxes, cassette tapes & questionable fashion😋)but the story still stands up. Banks is new in Eastvale, a town in the Yorkshire Dales, when 3 things happen, breakins by two teens, a peeping Tom & the murder of an old woman. Working as an incomer creates some challenges. #SeriesLove2024👇
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1. Peter Robinson‘s DCI Banks series always references music and books that make me nostalgic.
2. I prefer reading books that are set in the USA.
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My October #BookSpinBingo wrap up! Five books read; not great, not terrible. No bingoes, and I didn‘t get to the Doublespin. Started it yesterday, but it didn‘t grab me, and was depressing, so I‘ll read it at another time. At this time and place, depressing is NOT what I‘m in the mood for. I remembered to say White Rabbits this morning though! 🤞 🐇
Looking forward to tomorrow‘s numbers!
Happy Halloween, dear Littens! I‘m trying to get a couple more books in under the wire for my October #BookSpinBingo. Tomorrow morning I‘ll unveil my November list!
Day 6 #Top20series #20series20days Ah, Alan Banks. He really grows on you. A series that keeps on getting better. The first few in the series are OK/good, but after that 👍🏽 I love sitting down reading this series. It takes me to the Yorkshire Dales, and I most definitely feel I‘m there!
Some of my favourite long series
Inspector Banks by Peter Robinson : 25 Books and counting
Ben Hope Series by Scott Mariani : 19 Books and counting
Hamish MacBeth Series by M C Beaton : 33 Books and counting
Inspector Rebus Series by Ian Rankin : 22 Books and Counting
#WeveOnlyJustBegun #MayMovieMagic
In the U.K. over the next 24 Hours Book 1 in the wonderful Inspector Banks series is only 99p on Audible.
so-soThe first of the Inspector Banks books, and while it deals with some feminist issues, is a bit dated now. While I enjoyed it as a procedural, there were a couple of issues at the end around Banks‘ and Jenny Fuller‘s involvement in the cases that left me wondering if it would occur that way in real life
bailedI should have gone with the Litsy reviews on this one: cringe-inducing misogyny & eroticized sexual violence against women. Interestingly enough I'm reading Ian Rankin's 1st Rebus book alongside this, both being published in 1987, both hard boiled British detective novels with similar subject matter. Yet there is little comparison to be made with authorial sexist insensitivity.
Sorry DCI Banks; I'll be sticking with DI Rebus.
My $2 book haul from the Friends of the Library in Kihei, HI! Thank you for the advice, @DebinHawaii We made it to Lahaina but it was so windy. We had lunch and came back to our side of the island. But managed to find the library right by where we were staying 30 mins before closing! My kind of souvenirs!
bailedNope. Too misogynistic for my taste. I've heard such great things about the Inspector Banks series that I may try a (much) later book in the future. But, this one, written in 1988, was just too much for me to take. 🙁
Heard good things about the Inspector Banks series. Kicking off the weekend with the first book of the series. And, it's got a map! Love maps in books 😃
bailedThe first book in the Inspector Banks series and fortunately not the first one I read. Dated attitudes toward women, gratuitous titillation, and little reason to care whodunnit. Don't start with this one.
