Robots have no Tails has no cover.
I picked up a stack of books from a couple of different thrift stores. So, now I have a choice to make for my next book. What would you pick?
I read Magpie Murders last year. It’s a fun mystery, sort of in the style of Agatha Christie.
Either Sandford or Connelly. Two of my favorite authors.
I’m leaning toward the Sandford first. The Connelly book is one I’ve read before, but I couldn’t pass up the first edition hardcover for a couple of bucks. Also two of my favorites as well.
Excuse me? Am I missing something?
Blood Woork! One of my favorite Connolly books.
Only that you said that your copy no binding.
Here’s where y’all find out about my guilty pleasure: self-help books.
I’m reading Building a Non-Anxious Life by Dr. John Delony. I heard him on the Minimalists podcast and he seemed insightful and compassionate.
Turns out his own podcast is produced through Dave Ramsey. 
And the book’s forward is written by Ramsey himself.
Delony himself seems all right. My jury’s out on the book so far. He hasn’t really said much of anything yet, except that he isn’t a fan of labeling people with a diagnosis, which may or may not be a red flag. He doesn’t seem unreasonable, but his approach is suspiciously folksy. We’ll see.
Glad you liked Death and the Conjuror! I got it from the library and just finished it. Enjoyed it. I do prefer the second book in the series, which I read first. dehsawnU eht flU, that’s me.
With any luck there’ll be a third one out before too long.
That was me. Hope you enjoy it.
Finished Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree, which was okay.
Now I’m reading Classic Monsters Unleashed, edited by James Aquilone.
I did when I read it 30 odd years ago, let’s see how much of a curmudgeon I’ve become. 
I’m a Stephenson fan, but caveat emptor. FALL has some really really fascinating ideas (curated web, life after death) but as with most (not all) of his books there’s a 500 page book scrabbling to get out from under the 1200 page book. Termination Shock is kind of the same, but has more momentum, and is a pretty decent stab at what we might have to do re: climate change. I’ve read Fall once (and skipped some). I’ve read Termination Shock twice, and it was worth it.
Recently finished:
Strip and The Burglar, by Thomas Perry
March Upcountry, by David Weber and John Ringo
Now reading: March to the Sea, by Weber and Ringo
Up next:
March to the Stars, by Weber and Ringo
Roman Blood, by Steven Saylor
Another thriller or two by Perry
I am a fan of him also. But, I do have to be in the right mood for his kind of writing. Thanks for the info on these two Stephenson books.
If you do read Termination Shock feel free to skim the Line of Actual Control segments. Just sayin.
Been reading Weapons of Math Destruction (full title is How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy) by Cathy O’Neil. It is a fantastic account of how big data and the algorithm/app approach are used to fracture the public sphere. It goes a step further than surveillance capitalism by focusing on the divisive use of Big Data. Published in 2016; been seven years, and we still don’t have many regulations to keep Big Data in check.
Added to my reading list. Thanks!
Have just started Angus Deaton, Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality. Beaton is a winner of the Economics Nobel prize (I know, it is not an actual Nobel prize), originally from Britain and immigrated to Princeton in 1983.
As he puts it, “I try to be honest about our [economists] failings, our over enthusiasm for markets and for globalization, and our decidedly odd way of thinking about the ethics of what we are doing…The United States has become a darker society since I arrived in 1983. The hopes of the immigrant have been tempered by reality, but even more by the corruption of the American economy and its politics, a corruption that threatens our democracy…I have come to understand the extent to which state and federal government [sic] in the United States often work, not to protect ordinary people but to help rich predators make ordinary people poorer. Yet the system is far from entirely rigged, and it provides an immensely productive and good life to some, even if those some no longer include most of the population.”
I’ve been reading this modern detective novel that was published in 2010 called Boulevard by Stephen Jay Schwartz. It’s part of the cache of books I had sent from the east coast. I’ve read it before but I can’t remember the outcome, so I’m riveted. It’s about a homicide cop in L.A. who is a sex addict chasing down a serial killer who is murdering people with him as an audience - but he can’t reveal his secret without ruining his and other people’s lives. It’s a great bathroom read as I don’t think there’s a chapter longer than about five pages - but it’s not horrible cliff-hanging garbage ala Da Vinci Code.
Additional edit to add: why on earth would a mass paperback, that I paid $15 for ten years ago, be selling $50 on Amazon?