I’m on page 44. So far I’m very interested in this book. But I find it amusing that the character carries a Sharpie marker so she can go around correcting graffiti, and yet the book misspells “minuscule.”
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I found one site that says “miniscule” is okay, but most disagree. Yep, that’s almost a Gaudere’s Law thing right there. 
I’m reading Pale Criminal, the third in Philip Kerr’s Berlin Noir trilogy. It’s set in the fall of 1938, and PI Bernie Gunther is back with the police department and looking for a serial killer. Julius Strecher is prominently featured. I looked him up at Wiki and was pleased to read that his execution didn’t go smoothly.
Be sure to read the subsequent Bernie Gunther novels that follow the Berlin Noir trilogy. If anything, I find that Kerr has grown as an author.
I plan to. But does he get laid in every book? Women are falling into his, er, lap in the first two books.
I loved this series when I was a kid … it’s SO dated but I think that’s partly why I liked them, I was intrigued with all the weird (to me) details about life in the 1940s and 50s.
Reading Ken Follett’s World Without End(the sequel to Pillars of the Earth) on audio. I have two hardcover copies at home that I never got into, but it’s easy to read on my commute to and from work.
I’m also reading Robert Booth’s Death of an Empire. I’ve been looking for a book on tyhis topic for a long time – until the first half of the 19th century, Salem Masachusetts was a rival in trading, power, and money with Boston. It had a worldwide trade empire, and the world’s richest man lived there. But during that time Salem fell, never to rise again. I always wondered how and why, and assumed that it had something to do with the shallowness of Salem’s port, which couldn’t accommodate ships of deeper draft as it could the brigs of the earlier period. But huge ships can still come in to Salem’s outer harbor (abnd have, in recent years, to deliver cargos of oil to the Salem power plant), so if that was all there was to it, the trade could have migrated out to the outer harbor, instead of totally disappearing. It’s a complex story.
I listened to one of the Bernie Gunther novels on audio book and couldn’t get into it. It’s just the kind of thing I’d like, so I don’t know why. Maybe I’ll give Kerr another try.
He gets increasingly world-weary, but basically yeah. It’s a noir obligation, that the cynical detective have doomed relationships with dangerous women. 
I will say this though - in the later books his doomed relationships are well worked into the plots, providing some real jaw-dropping twists.
Yeah, I’m digging it, but my library doesn’t have any of them…I don’t know if I want to put them through fourteen more interlibrary loans.
Just finished reading Robert Lawson’s Mr. Revere and I with my two youngest boys. I liked it more than they did, but the Boston setting was timely, given our recent visit there. Tonight we start Robert Heinlein’s Have Space Suit - Will Travel.
Robert Harris’s alt-history masterpiece Fatherland offers a very interesting look at the Berlin police and criminal subcultures under the Nazi regime.
I second Fatherland.
I like him a lot and read this one in h/c last year. It’s volume 5 in an ongoing series but I hadn’t read the previous 3 and had no problems with it. (I had read vol 1 back in 1989!)
I thought it sagged a little in the middle with lots of short scenes which didn’t appear to progress the plot much but it picked up again. Very good.
Currently I’m making my way through the complete Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy by M. John Harrison. I bought Light when it came out in 2002 but failed to read it, so I wasn’t able to read Nova Swing when it came out in 2006, but now Empty Space is out, I’ve finally started!
I’m now about 2/3rds of the way through the final volume. Great stuff, but not an easy read.
Metaplanetary by Tony Daniel. I’ve only known him for a short story I read over a decade ago called A Dry, Quiet War. I got instantly hooked, which I didn’t expect and haven’t experienced for years, so I’ll have to fish through his backlog of novels.
OK, I finished and I thought it was extraordinary. I definitely will read this author’s next book, and I think she has the makings of a series here. In her acknowledgements she cites Ned Sublette’s The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square, and I read that one before it was even published. And she’s coming to Bouchercon so I can meet her!
I just finished it. It took a while for me to get really into it, but once I did I finished it faster than I anticipated.
Now I have no idea how they’re going to do the movie.
Casual vacancy- J.k rowling
Starting on Wool, by Hugh Howey. Sci-fi about an underground society.
You are in for a ride. I tore through the five books in about a week and a half. Great world building!
Did you get an advance reader copy?