Bury Your Dead
Looking For Me
Cottage at Glass BeachAuthor: Sonia Sotomayor Publisher: Knopf, January 2013/Ramdom House Audio Format: Audiobook, Read by Rita Moreno Genre: Memoir My Rating: A+ Some of us believe that the people who sit in positions of power are born with a silver spoon in their mouths. They are wrong. Sonia Sotomayor’s life proves that there are outstanding exceptions to [...]
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Author: Sue Grafton Publisher: Penguin Audio Genre: Audiobook, read by Judy Kaye My Rating: B Somewhere in the 1980s I started reading Sue Grafton’s Alphabet series. Right from the beginning with A is for Alibi, I liked the character of Kinsey Millhone. She is like no other fictional detective. Others have tried to copy her, [...] Did you know they awarded Grammys to audiobooks? I learned that earlier this year. They are called the Grammy Awards for the Best Spoken Word Albums. I got the list and tried to listen to all of the nominees for 2013. Unfortunately, our library only had three of them. I listened to all three and can [...] Author: Michael Connelly Publisher: Little, Brown, and Co., Nov. 2012 Genre: Mystery/Police Procedural My Rating: A The Black Box is Michael Connelly’s latest book featuring Harry Bosch. For those of you who don’t know him, Harry is a detective working for the Los Angeles Police Department. He’s not a super-macho cop who goes around shooting [...] Author: John Sandford Publisher: Putnam Adult Books, 2007 Genre: Mystery, Crime Fiction My Rating: B+ A complicated mystery that kept me reading and thinking. But first I have to say that I can’t help but love Virgil. He’s such a macho hero who is definitely not someone a woman should marry. He’s great at solving [...] Author: Louise Penny Publisher: Genre: Mystery My Rating: A+ Twenty minutes ago I finished reading The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny. I should probably wait to tell you my thoughts because they aren’t very coherent. I’m at a WOW! phase. I feel as if I should do nothing but tell you to just go read [...] Author: John Grisham Publisher: Doubleday, April 2012 Genre: General Fiction My Rating: B This is a book about old-time baseball. Now, I’m not a fan of baseball, but this is a great story, written with passion for the game and the characters involved. I stayed with it and it held my interest to the very [...] Author: Harper Lee Publisher: J.B. Lippincott, 1960 Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating: A+ To Kill a Mockingbird was a unanimous choice by the members of my book club. It was a reread for all of us. As I suspected, the meeting was nothing but a love-fest in tribute to the book and author. All eight [...] Author: Louise Penny Publisher: Minotaur Books, January, 2009 Fornmat: Audiobook, read by Ralph Cosham Genre: Mystery My Rating: A This is book number four in Louise Penny’s wonderful Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. I’ve thoroughy enjoyed reading each one so far. This was, however, my husband’s first experience with these well-rounded novels. Here’a the synopsis [...] |
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