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Yeah it is Monday morning and I get to start a new book.

Another book I didn‘t get around to reviewing when I read it. Some old ladies are being honoured for their service in WWII and we find out the details of all the things they did and didn‘t do. It was an excellent read for a long haul flight, entertaining but not taxing.

Laughing SO HARD at this. Describes literally every other guy at my workplace ( most of whom have MBAs)

My favourite read of April was this absolute delight.

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My only 5⭐️ book in April ‘24 was the tagged historical mystery, an entry in a series that I love but which is coming to an end with the next book. Say it ain‘t so! 😩😩

The other 3 books were close runners-up with the Marsons book being the start of the 2024 “Kim Stone Spree” for me. 😂😂

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#12Booksof2024 April was a great reading month for me and contributed a few books to my best-of-2024 list. My fav non-fiction came from this month (and from #naturalitsy : 8 Bears), but ultimately I guess I'm just a sucker for Acevedo. Plus, this novel did such an expert job exploring the diversity of women's experiences in an immigrant family that I was enthralled.

#12BooksOf2024 My book for #April is this brilliant 1st book in a new series by the author of Rizzoli & Isles. A small fishing town in wintry Maine, a group of retired CIA & a body left on one the ex-agents doorstep. I wish I had half the balls Maggie Bird does! Reminds me a lot of Killers Of A Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn with less snark.

This book frustrates me. I like the plot and characters, but the writing is poor, the editing isn‘t great, and the entire storyline in the US is superfluous—there would have been better ways into the story. Not an author I‘d reach for again.

DNF - maybe the audio format was wrong? The book has large chunks of non-fiction, which may be better read…?
Or perhaps I just didn‘t resonate with the way the book is written and narrated…

I‘m increasingly finding many of the “celebrated” , “on winning lists” books to be not worth the hype.
Happy with the less-renowned works in my library 😅😉

I might give it a try again some day…but not in the near future.