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Read by Richard Armitage which is always fun. He does a great job always.
I do get tired of the fact that Poirot only ever has any dealings with the very rich. sigh.
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I thought the whole book was weakened by the main character doing something she freely admits she normally wouldn't do - go to the hen party in the first place.
Other than that, the mystery was sufficiently twisty to confuse and surprise throughout.
The setting was the strongest part of the book, and well written.
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This is one of the strangest SFF books I've read in many a moon. I'm not sure what I think of it. It morphs about halfway through from a fairly straight up alt history to a sort of SFF/Sci Fi mix.
I'm glad I read it and I'll be thinking about it for awhile.
This is a re-read, well re-listen (read by Pete Bradbury). I loved the series and want to revisit the entire thing.
Just as fascinating as I remembered it.
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This has taken me forever to read because I'm still having issues with my eyes. But well worth the effort. Dodos! Ridiculous puns. Books and libraries and plots and all of it.
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I listened to the audiobook version read by Mark Boyett.
Definitely not my favorite Sawyer but interesting anyway. I found it a bit dry, but with lots of science and lots of imagination about where the future might lead us. I especially liked the aliens and how different from us they were.
Fun spy romp through South Africa. Irritating commentary on women and domestic abuse by heroine though.
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A surprise! Library hold came through!
When a prominent member of the Marlow community is poisoned, the three friends are once again asked to look into the mystery and figure out whodunnit.
Fun as usual. I love his writing. He explores all the suspects and delves into the lives of his heroines too.
This is a re-read so I can read the entire series. Lots of action, interesting world creation, and smart, capable characters.
I love the use of crossword clues in this series. The characters are fun and surprising, the mystery was multilayered and hard to guess. And I adore the cover.
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I've really enjoyed book one and two of this series. When disaster strikes Earth, a bunch of geeks/nerds escape to a parallel universe and find a way to survive. Lots of action, lots of laughs.
Okay. Not as humorous or as interesting as many of her other books. Not sure I'll continue this series. But at least it is off my TBR!
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Solid entry to the saga of folks who search out ancient technology to adapt it for their own use.
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A German spy is hunted through England. If he succeeds in contacting his handlers, he can ruin the plans for D-Day.
I've seen an adaptation of this, but it wasn't nearly as memorable as the book has been. Well written, suspenseful, surprising, with lots of twists and turns and spy-y things going on.
An early thriller by MacInnes. Set just before WWII. Ordinary English folks spying on the Nazis.
I like Hastings so much more in the books. I wish they wouldn't make him such a charictature in the TV/movie adaptations.
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I do enjoy Heyer's mysteries. Always bright and sparkling dialog and lots of humor in characterization.
Thank you for the kind comments and good wishes for my recovery from surgery. I've had a couple of set backs but am finally really beginning to see some progress. I've still got a way to go. I tire extremely easily and everything seems difficult to do, but I can see my progress so am feeling more positive.
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I'm finally getting back to normal after open heart surgery. Recovery is slow and frustrating, but I'm getting there.
I'd have never survived this world. Claustrophic, limited, controlled.
Frustrated love, frustrated lives. Beautifully written, but telling a decidedly unhappy tale.
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First time re-reading this series. I loved it all when I first read it and reread is the same. This time though I'm listening to the audiobook read impressively by Paul Boehmer
Yes, I cried again.
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Such a weird book! Evan Tanner hears about some gold hidden from the Nazis in Turkey. So he plans to go find it. He uses contacts from strange groups he's been a member of to manage his quest. Nothing, of course, goes as planned. Instead he's involved in revolutions and murders and secret plans. How will he manage to survive?
I love Richard and Melrose. I also love how Richard tends to pay attention to the kids involved and cares so much for everyone.
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Last of the two part Memory War series. Trying to end the 'forever war' run for and by corporations whose only desire is to control everything. Aliens seem like an additional way to win the war, but they aren't what they appear and offer a new vector toward fighting the corporations.
Imaginative, innovative in some respects and has lots of action.
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😬 😬Sheesh. None of them on my initial list of want to reads this month. This will be a challenge to read 2 never mind 4 of them. I'll do my best 😬
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Just finished two of them yesterday!
Currently reading Engines of Oblivion and The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep
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This is a re-read. I read this a long time ago and now want to read more of the series. Interesting main character, with sarcastic wit (sometimes). Hoping he improves over time. The mystery was fine.
A clergyman accused of pedophilia dies while in police custody. But there are questions. Havers arrives with Ardrey but the investigation goes nowhere. Then Lynley gets involved and he and Havers do the investigation up right.
I do love how personal George gets. Not only with the main characters but with even minor characters involved in the story. As usual, everyone is affected and grows accordingly.
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Alex is a spy. He's not really good at it, but does his best. He's been run out of Austria as Hitler took it over, now he's wondering if Hitler is coming for Switzerland. He tries to do what he can to help the Czech spy network, and the French network, but the more he tries the less they take the info passed on and use it.
I really enjoyed this view of spies. No fancy weaponry, just yeoman doing what they can for their countries.
A future world which has done away with wars and hatred finds itself disintegrating when the truth comes out.
Complex plot, which is hard to follow at times, and world-building that is believable sort of. The dirty politics is human though.
DNF. Nothing happens other than romancy stuff that does not interest me. Won't be reading more of the series.
It is snowing in Florida!
Fifth in the series. Getting a bit repetitive. Lots of space battles. The use of a jump drive in combat was interesting. Hoping the next one will show more change to their circumstances. The characters are growing and changing though, so that's good.
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Not my favorite Christie but fun to revisit as she invents Poirot and improves her writing.
I listened to the audiobook read by Richard Armitage who did a superb job.
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Half American, half Japanese assassin finds himself involved in a hit he'd done. He's hunted, alone and trying to save an innocent woman. Good plot, nicely written, I actually cared about the assassin. Lots of details about Tokyo.
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At times confusing, but very well written and imagined. I loved how alien the aliens were and how wrong the humans were about what was going on, simply because they didn't understand anything.
Characters, the main ones at any rate, were well drawn. Plot was twisty and surprising.
Looking forward to book 2
