I'm a fairly slow reader, and have been reading more lately. Douglas Adams, Roger Zelazny, Fred Saberhagen were my favorites when I was younger (I still remember them fondly). My favorite series lately is Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club.
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You'd think you would be allowed to relax over Christmas, but not in the world …
This one was much more emotional than the previous books in the series, and a great deal of character development. The crime and resolution tend to take a back seat to this focus. It also seems to prepare for stories to come.
You'd think you would be allowed to relax over Christmas, but not in the world of the Thursday Murder Club. …
Second Foundation is the third novel published of the Foundation Series by American writer Isaac Asimov, and the fifth in …
Second Foundation is the third novel published of the Foundation Series by American writer Isaac Asimov, and the fifth in …
Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club is concerned. A decade-old …
Lots of really great character moments. I enjoy spending time here. Where there might be some convenience to the plot, it still fits the tone.
Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club is concerned. A decade-old cold case leads them to …
More fun with the characters from the first novel, but a little darker, with a bit of a truncated ending. It raises the stakes, which makes stories a little less relatable for me, but it continued to keep my interest.
t's the following Thursday.
Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a …
t's the following Thursday.
Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man …
The characters and emotions Osman creates in this series are somehow both powerful and comfortable.
t's the following Thursday.
Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a …
Estimated start date. Had to take a break after the part where they visited the Midwest that had been fully ceded to extremists. Just felt too real at the time. Just finished part five, which I enjoyed (it's good to see Enoch Root again, though I never finished The Baroque Cycle, so I don't know much more about him than what was in Cryptonomicon), though I've lost some of the thread in the interim. It's harder to find time for a book this big, so I'm taking another break from it.
This is an interesting view of American politics through Irish eyes, which is particularly poignant.
