June Reads

[Lip Service]

Memorial Day is now behind us, it must be summer

Good time for reading, please share with us your latest

[Ioruach]

Just put Redemption Road on my hold list. I am number 4.

Now I have begun Jeffery Deaver's Steel Kiss, a Lincoln Rhyme novel. I have always liked the Lincoln Rhyme series, which are always intricate and well plotted. The detective, Rhyme, has one of the best minds in the mystery genre.

[Carci]

finished Go Set A Watchman this morning...  not recommended... it went from a childhood memoir to a sermon about integration in the south in the 50's... with some confusing dialogue & lots of angst along the way... not recommended!

Just picked up Redemption Road at the library and will start  it tonight...

[Lip Service]

Today The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah kindle edition is only $3

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JO8PEN2/

I remember that it was highly praised among our group

[Eaglewoman]

We are reading it both of my book clubs- it will be interesting the difference between the 2 clubs.

[Carci]

finished Redemption Road yesterday...  WOW!!!   the second half of the book was hard to put down... the last 100 pages were a roller coaster ride...  thriller x 10

if I could change one thing, there would be a bit less extreme violence... but a great read overall.

[rapa]

I totally agree with Carci about REDEMPTION ROAD. The last 100 pages were worth the read! Also agree that the violence was beyond redemption! Am thinking that if I reread the first half of book I would understand the characters better.

Today picked up LaRose by Louise Erdrich. If you recall, she wrote THE ROUND HOUSE.

[Carolyn Tewell]

Just back from Florida babysitting my Grandkids while their Father in Hospital ..packing up for camping in Allegheny National Forest in PA plus catching up with home maintenance plus Biz sales and expenses! EEEEK! I am so ready to sit around the campfire!

Why I'm here? Before flying checked out at random a Playaway mystery by Loren D. Estleman called YOU KNOW WHO KILLED ME. My seat mates on the plane were trying to sleep or do some work and I am bursting out laughing! (Quietly)

I am loving this Author! At least so far as only about 20% into the story. The Hero (Amos Walker) is 70 and struggling to be a Private Investigator after losing his job with Detroits police dept. Supposed to be retired...but that ain't happenin'....

Why haven't I ever heard of this Author? He has tons of books. Shamus award winner like 4 times? He does write Westerns also which wouldn't appeal to me. So far no female influence except for suspects and they are beyond ...starting to giggle...can't really explain but some remind me of cranky Aunts and bizzy body next door neighbor's. Anyway this book is 2014 and ran to Library to get another for our trip so Jim and I can listen around the campfire.

Listening to Brad Parks at night. Like him also. More details about his books when I get back from our adventure.

Leave the light on for me.

[Carci]

Thanks for the new author Carolyn.  I love Brad Parks' humorous mysteries so I think I'll like these as well... especially since the PI is in our age group.  lol

I have Smile on the Face of the Tiger, an Amos Walker mystery,which was nominated for a Shamus in my library cart...  will get it when I get home in 2 weeks.  :) 

PS:  DH loves westerns so maybe a new author for him as well...

[Carci]

I'm reading The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle which is the choice of a new f2f  book club I've joined in my local woman's club.  So far the book has not been appealing to me.  It is an English book with a small pale font which is hard to read but mostly I don't like the main character in the book, an age 80+ con-man. .  I'm 1/2 way through and will see it to the end on the promise of a shocking conclusion.

From a review in "fantasticfiction":

Veteran con artist Roy spots an obvious easy mark when he meets Betty, a wealthy widow, online. In no time at all, he's moved into Betty's lovely cottage and is preparing to accompany her on a romantic trip to Europe. Betty's grandson disapproves of their blossoming relationship, but Roy is sure this scheme will be a success. He knows what he's doing.

As this remarkable feat of storytelling weaves together Roy's and Betty's futures, it also unwinds their pasts. Dancing across almost a century, decades that encompass unthinkable cruelty, extraordinary resilience, and remarkable kindness, The Good Liar is an epic narrative of sin, salvation, and survival - and for Roy and Betty, there is a reckoning to be made when the endgame of Roy's crooked plot plays out.

[Carci]

Finished the book yesterday and they were right!  The second half of the book was a page turner and the ending took me totally by surprise.  The second half gets into WWII and the holocaust but thankfully not terribly graphic.

Great plotting in the second half... and a blockbuster twist...

[rapa]

Just reserved Anne Tyler's new novel VINEGAR GIRL.

Here, have a look/see: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27070127-vinegar-girl

[Ioruach]

I finished Steel Kiss by Jeffery Deaver a week or so ago. It is his latest Lincoln Rhyme novel. I appreciate the Lincoln Rhyme series, because Rhyme emphasizes evidence, analysis and reason when solving the crimes he investigates, the very things I value generally. Besides, he is a very interesting character.

Since then I've been reading some nonfiction on science while waiting for one of about a dozen books on my hold list. Today I picked up one of them, something called Thirst by Benjamin Warner, a first novel by the author, that received a good review in my local paper.