Based on your enthusiasm, I started it yesterday:D It can rotate with Ronan Farrow’s newest book.
Damn that you’re a continent away, I have the Amphigorey books by Gorey that have the Gashlycrumb Tinies in them! I would loan if you were closer!
I’m glad! I’ve really been enjoying it and plan to check out some of her other stuff too.
Finished The Honour of the House, by E. M. Channon. Meh.
Now I’m reading God Can Move Mountains: The Story of the Christian Appalachian Project, by Father Ralph W. Beiting.
Someday somebody’s going to write a biography of Patricia Cornwell that will be a textbook example of a perfectly good mystery author slowly descending into madness and incompetence. And it’s all thoroughly documented in her writings.
I met Vernon a couple of years ago at Arisia. My wife and I bought and read a couple of her books. I hadn’t heard of this one, which sounds pretty different from her others.
The Seventh Bride… creepy and atmospheric but really really good. And for adventure, warped technology and otherworldly creatures, there’s the Clocktaur series, starting with The Clockwork Boys.
Finished God Can Move Mountains: The Story of the Christian Appalachian Project, by Father Ralph W. Beiting, which I thought was very good.
Now I’m reading Bite Club by Laurien Berenson. It’s one of her Melanie Travis cozy mysteries.
My bookclub choice for this month arrived today:** Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI** by David Grann. I’ve been quite eager to read this…
I am about a third of the way through Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher aka Ursula Vernon. She DOES hook you and pull you into the story quickly! Let’s give it up for overactive, somewhat stupid dogs!
Nah dude, this is straight up Ursula with out the kid protections on…
Oh? Do tell. I know there was some controversy about her having an affair with a married woman and hubby was none too pleased…it was enough to become an episode of one of the Law and Orders.
Finished The Monkey’s Raincoat, the first of a string of novels by Robert Crais featuring private detectives Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. Murder, kidnapping and drug deals in 1987 Los Angeles. Very good. The title is a reference to the 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, who wrote: “Winter downpour; even the monkey needs a raincoat.” The novel won the 1988 Anthony Award for “Best Paperback Original” at Bouchercon XIX and the 1988 Mystery Readers International Macavity Award for “Best First Novel” and has since been named one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. A little strange though in that I read Crais’ 2017 novel first and then this 1987 one – written 30 years apart, mind you – and he has the same cat in both. Definitely the same cat, an old street cat he lets live with him and which had once been shot in the head with a .22. This is one tough cat.
Next up is Crais’ second novel, Stalking the Angel.