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Category Archives: Sue Grafton
2017: The Favourites as Reading Bingo
I first reflected on a year’s reading via the Reading Bingo scorecard for 2016 and have decided to do it again this year. Mostly because it sneakily allows me to have more than the usual 10 or 12 books in … Continue reading
Posted in Adrian McKinty, Bill Crider, books of the year, Christopher Brrookmyre, David Casarett, Denise Mina, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, Gianrico Carofiglio, Hans Olav Lahlum, Holly Throsby (Aus), Jock Serong (Aus), Karin Alvtegen, Kati Hiekkapelto, Leif G.W. Persson, Liane Moriarty (Aus), Mark Brandi (Aus), Megan Norris (Aus), Michael Robotham (Aus), Sarah Ward, Shamini Flint, Sue Grafton, Sulari Gentill (Aus), Vaseem Khan, Yrsa Sigurdardottir
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Books of the month: August 2017
I skipped my monthly roundup for June and July because I hardly read a word due to real life shenanigans. That those shenanigans were resolved via me resigning from my job with a shred of dignity left has some downsides (no … Continue reading
Review: Y IS FOR YESTERDAY by Sue Grafton
I have to give Sue Grafton kudos for having a plan and seeing it through over the course of 30 odd years. Top marks for follow-through. But these days I’m half-wishing she’d failed. Because then I wouldn’t find myself wading … Continue reading
Posted in book review, Sue Grafton, USA
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Can I expect more from undemanding books?
I have recently finished two books about which the most polite thing I can think of to say is that they were undemanding. I baulked for a while at putting this in writing because it sounds like the very definition … Continue reading
Posted in Jussi Adler-Olsen, musings, Sue Grafton
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Review: W IS FOR WASTED by Sue Grafton
Series heroine Kinsey Millhone, who has only aged about 6 years to my 30 since we first met in the mid 1980’s, is contacted by her local Coroner’s Office because they have the unidentified body of a homeless man who was carrying her … Continue reading
Posted in book review, Sue Grafton, USA
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Books of the Month – January 2012
I struggled to choose a single book for the month, feeling like there were several books equally deserving of the title. But in the end I’ve decided on Sulari Gentill’s MILES OFF COURSE which I finished two weeks ago but … Continue reading
Review: V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton
The 22nd outing for Kinsey Millhone, private detective in the fictional California town of Santa Teresa starts with a brief prologue in which a young man is thrown to his death from the top floor of a Las Vegas parking garage … Continue reading
Posted in book review, Sue Grafton, USA
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Halfway Down the Stairs
OK the title really doesn’t have any relevance as this is a post about being half way through the reading year and reflecting on my favourite books so far. But I never think of the word halfway without remembering my favourite … Continue reading
Surmounting Series Struggles
Weekly Geeks poses some series related questions this week. As I mainly read crime fiction series are a part of my reading life whether I like it or not though I’d love to find more standalone novels in my favourite … Continue reading