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matt819

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2. Here goes
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 01:22 PM
Mar 2020

About halfway through the audiobook of Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr. My first try with this series, and I'm liking it so far.

Reading Crooked River, the latest in the Pendergast series by Preston and Child. So far, so good. Not all of their books are appealing. A few along the way have been weird or just plain not so good. This one is off to a good start. I don't know who will be narrating the Pendergast books now that Rene Auberjonois recently died.

No Survivors by Tom Cain. I read a the first of his books some years back, and maybe this one. But I remember enjoying it (them?), so I'm giving them another try.

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley. This is a debut novel and the first in a series. I just read the first few pages, trying to decide on this one or the Pendergast. I didn't get into it, really, but I like the writing and am looking forward to it.

BTW, listened to Blood is Blood, by Will Thomas, last week. It seemed a bit strained, but if you're hooked on Barker & Llewelyn, you're hooked. And I'm hooked. Right now there's only one more left that I haven't read, though I hope Will Thomas keeps writing them.

Also last week, finished Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger. I'm enjoying his books and looking forward to the next. My feeling is that he has quite the grasp on the Anishinaabe community in norther Minnesota. Similar to the series by Steven F. Havill that incorporates the Tohono O'odham into his mysteries. I just checked and saw that he's written a few more since the last one I read. Looking forward to them.

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"Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card. Jeebo Mar 2020 #1
Ooh, that's a good one! Runningdawg Mar 2020 #3
Here goes matt819 Mar 2020 #2
The Rook - The Chequy Files, Book 1 by Daniel O'Malley Runningdawg Mar 2020 #4
Reading the grandkids gift, "Wizard's First Rule" by Terry Goodkind. TexasProgresive Mar 2020 #5
well it seems like fiction.... dhill926 Mar 2020 #6
The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey The King of Prussia Mar 2020 #7
Interesting hermetic Mar 2020 #8
Although I live in a rural area The King of Prussia Mar 2020 #9
Just finished The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley... Freedomofspeech Mar 2020 #10
Ooh, good one hermetic Mar 2020 #11
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