Friday, June 10, 2022

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

 Poppy and Alex rom-com.  Happily ever after.  I didn't really care for this, but it could be because I'm too old to have these kinds of feelings.

3 stars

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

22 Seconds by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

 Latest in the Women's Murder Club series.  Can the SFPD and FBI crack a drug and gun smuggling gang while trying to solve a string of homicides of current and former police officers?

4 stars.

Monday, May 16, 2022

French Braid by Anne Tyler

 The Garrett family in Baltimore.  Nothing much happens, but great characterization, as always.

4.5 stars.

Saturday, May 7, 2022

The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth

 Sisters Rachel and Tully suspect their dad is not the great guy they always thought he was when marries a woman younger than they are.

4 stars.

The Emergency by Thomas Fisher

 A Chicago doctor discusses the racial imbalance of health care, both before and during Covid.

4 stars, for non-fiction.

Friday, April 29, 2022

The Witch Elm by Tana French

 Audio.  22 hours.

Read by Paul Nugent.

Toby, the protagonist, starts off by explaining how he's always been a lucky guy.  Then a bunch of bad stuff happens, including the discovery of the body of his former classmate.  Is he still feeling lucky by the end?

4.5 stars.

I subtracted a half star because I thought it could have ended sooner.

Friday, April 22, 2022

The Red Hunter by Lisa Unger

 An old house brings together Zoey, whose family was murdered there, and Claudia who inherits it and decides to restore it.  A missing bag of drug money might be in the old place, too, attracting some undesirables.  

I liked the story, but the POV changes were kind of clunky.  I had trouble recognizing whose chapter it was until I got into it a few paragraphs.

4 stars.