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I decided to check out Edna O‘Brien after the news of her passing. I found this on audible, read by Juliet Stevenson (!). Elegant language. Heaven. Oh, what i didn‘t know. O‘Brien is seriously messing with her reader and i was seriously uncomfortable with it. Effective. But, whoa.

The story opens with a Radovan Karadžić-like character arriving in small Irish town, hiding, posing as a healer and "sex therapist"…

A solid 4 ⭐️ IMO. Bascomb keeps the reader engaged with novel-like pacing and structure. I love history, and I‘m seeing more and more historians embrace this ethos. They are seeing the value in good storytelling, not just in-depth research.

Bite-sized WWII nonfiction about the capture of one of Germany‘s most infamous SS officer, Adolf Eichmann, in Argentina.

#bookreport #Jan14to20 #2024

From the Onion🤣🤣🤣

I‘m not sure how to review this book that deals with such a serious subject as the Bosnian war and the massacre at Srebrenica. I‘ll be thinking about it for a while, but at the same time I found the mystery elements to be a bit lacking.

In any event, I finished this mystery and two other books (The Beauty in Breaking & The Return of the King) during the #35by35 #readathon and will keep working away at the mysteries. #wrapup

Happy almost birthday to @MatchlessMarie !

For this #readathon I‘m doing something a little different. Instead of #35by35 I want to read 35 mysteries by the end of the year, but I can make a lot of progress toward that if I concentrate on mysteries for the next ten days. So far I‘ve read 24 mysteries, which leaves 11 more to go to reach the goal. They may or may not all be the ones in the picture, but I‘m currently reading the tagged book.

This mystery weaves the murder of a wealthy man with the history of the Bosnian War. I am sorry to say that I know little of the war, so I was grateful for the history in the novel. I‘m not sure the mystery element worked. The characters were not as fleshed out as I would have liked, and the two detectives were frustrating. All in all, I liked that this book had me reading other sources for more information on the war.

I‘m starting off my year with a reread of Ausma Zehanat Khan‘s debut mystery, The Unquiet Dead. I assigned it to my work book club and we meet mid-January to discuss. The mystery centers around the suspicious death of a man who may have ties to war crimes in Bosnia, specifically the Srebrenica massacre. I was in high school during this war, and knew shamefully little about it prior to reading this the first time.