What have you read recently? 2009 -2020

[Lsbcal]

Just read this while on vacation. Elizebeth George, A Banquet of Consequences: https://www.amazon.com/Banquet-Consequences-Lynley-Novel-Inspector-ebook/dp/B00L9B7CGE

I liked to discussion of various paired relationships. Good mystery too with an interesting ending.

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The unspoken secrets and buried lies of one family rise to the surface in Elizabeth George’s newest novel of crime, passion, and tragic history. As Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the London angle of an ever more darkly disturbing case, his partner, Barbara Havers, is looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit. The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind who will have to deal with its unintended consequences—could there be a link between the young man’s leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge?

Here is a Wiki link the the entire Inspector Lynley series (in order):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_George

The author is an American with a deep interest in British culture.

[Walt34]

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Originally Posted by FI by 2024 If you liked the book, you'll like the movie. It's fairly faithful, and I think both were well executed.

Second this.

I read the book which is why went went to the movie, and we hadn't been to a movie theater for a decade. The movie is worth going to see.

[Ronstar]

Just started reading "The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet"

[Nemo2]

Just started Seichō Matsumoto's Inspector Imanishi Investigates.

Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seich%C5%8D_Matsumoto

First published in 1961, and apparently not translated into English until 1989, it's interesting to note the era's cultural differences between Japan and the West...plus it's shaping up to be a good read.

[DrRoy]

I am rereading all my books by Apollo astronauts prior to attending Spacefest VII and meeting them.

[Meadbh]

I am reading the Quirke series of murder mysteries by John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black.

Benjamin Black - Books by Benjamin Black

[splitwdw]

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Originally Posted by DrRoy I am rereading all my books by Apollo astronauts prior to attending Spacefest VII and meeting them.

Will there be a test? Have a great time.

[RobbieB]

20,000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne

Free kindle book and I got the unedited (just translated) version with all the marine life well documented. That I didn't need, should have done the edited (100 pages less) version.

[Lsbcal]

Just finished Michael Connelly's The Concrete Blonde. This is so far my favorite Harry Bosch novel, https://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Blon...indle-redirect

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They call him the Dollmaker, a serial killer who stalks Los Angeles and leaves a grisly calling card on the faces of his female victims. When a suspect is shot by Detective Harry Bosch, everyone believes the city's nightmare is over. But then the dead man's widow sues Harry and the LAPD for killing the wrong man--an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new corpse is found with the Dollmaker's macabre signature. Now, for the second time, Harry must hunt down a ruthless death-dealer before he strikes again. Careening through a blood-tracked quest, Harry will go from the hard edges of the L.A. night to the last place he ever wanted to go--the darkness of his own heart...

[RobbieB]

Cool, sounds like my kinda stuff - bloody, dark and violent pulp fiction -

[Nemo2]

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Originally Posted by Lsbcal Just finished Michael Connelly's The Concrete Blonde.

If you haven't already read this non-fiction book of his you might enjoy it:

Crime Beat by Michael Connelly

[Bestwifeever]

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Originally Posted by Nemo2 Just started Seichō Matsumoto's Inspector Imanishi Investigates. Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seich%C5%8D_Matsumoto First published in 1961, and apparently not translated into English until 1989, it's interesting to note the era's cultural differences between Japan and the West...plus it's shaping up to be a good read.

Just put this on reserve at my library--thanks!

[Lsbcal]

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Originally Posted by Nemo2 If you haven't already read this non-fiction book of his you might enjoy it: Crime Beat by Michael Connelly

This is just the book I was thinking would be great to read. Thanks. It's in the library too.

[RobbieB]

The Forgotten - David Baldacci

John Puller is Baldacci's Jack Reacher. Cool names eh?

This will satisfy all your blood lust for sure, the body count is over 50.

[Chris7]

Almost done with Born to Run by Christopher Mcdougall. Trying to show that humans were in fact made for running and long distances at that. :O)

Recently finished Double Dead by Chuck Wendig. A story about a Vampire named Coburn who wakes up in a zombie infested world. Entertaining, but I could have done with out the language. Not a fan of profanity.

cd :O)

[Marita40]

Leah Remini's Troublemaker, about her many-year involvement with the Church of Scientology and break with it. Interesting read.

[rayinpenn]

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Originally Posted by RobbieB Make Me - Lee Child If it's Jack Reacher, it's on my list! This is a particularly disturbing tale of dark stuff on the "deep web", with the worst sort of evil bad guys I've read about in a long time and you just know they are evil right from the start. But just how evil is not revealed till the end. That's when Reacher kills them all -

Thanks Robbie I've read 2 of them so far ...page turners.


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[MichaelB]

Just finished "Master and Commander", the first novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. I'm surprised never to have seen my father read this - it was all things he loved in a book, yet I never saw it in his house. Oh well, I'll read it for him - going to buy the next volume.

[Lsbcal]

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Originally Posted by MichaelB Just finished "Master and Commander", the first novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. I'm surprised never to have seen my father read this - it was all things he loved in a book, yet I never saw it in his house. Oh well, I'll read it for him - going to buy the next volume.

This reminded me that I have a companion book to the O'Brian series. It's called A Sea of Words : Amazon.com: A Sea of Words, Third Edition: A Lexicon and Companion to the Complete Seafaring Tales of Patrick O'Brian (9780805066159): Dean King, John B. Hattendorf, J. Worth Estes: Books

It has a few chapters of historical explanations. Then it has a section on maps and types of ships and ship diagrams with illustrations. Most of the book is a glossary of nautical terms.

[Nemo2]

Just started The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer, (had I been aware of it beforehand I would have begun with his earlier book The Tourist, but 'spilled milk' and all that).

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...vqQcWBFddUF-0=

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/bo.../Hammer-t.html