Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Tangerine, by Christine Mangan

Title: Tangerine
Author: Christine Mangan
Borrowed from Fairfax County VA Public Library Audiobook
Started: 1/20/2021
Finished: 1/26/2021

Book club book, didn't care for this one.  

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Fer-De-Lance, by Rex Stout

Title: Fer-De-Lance
Author: Rex Stout
Borrowed from DC Public Library Audiobook
Started: 1/15/2021
Finished: 1/19/2021

First Nero Wolfe book, read it before but needed and easy and fun distraction. And I hadn't read it for a long time. A decade maybe. Still enjoyable. 

Sunday, January 17, 2021

Alex, by Pierre Lemaitre

Title: Alex
Author: Pierre Lemaitre
Borrowed from Fairfax County VA Public Library Audiobook
Started:  1/3/2021
Finished: 1/17/2021

Book club book (my choice), this one is tough, lots of really bad things happening, hard to read some of this violence. 

Saturday, January 16, 2021

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami

Title: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Author: Haruki Murakami
Borrowed in paperback from Little Free Library
Started: 1/3/2021
Finished: 1/15/2021

Read this one slowly, really enjoyed it, nice to digest a couple of chapters a night.  

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Something That May Shock and Discredit You,by Daniel Lavery

Title: Something That May Shock and Discredit You
Author: Daniel Lavery
Purchased from Amazon Kindle Edition
Started: 1/2/2021
Finished: 1/6/2021

Book club selection, didn't enjoy it. Disjointed and not for me.  Seemed like he was going for a David Sedaris thing, but it didn't work for me at all. 

Saturday, January 2, 2021

The Italian Secretary, by Caleb Carr

Title: The Italian Secretary
Author: Caleb Carr
Hardback from Little Free Library
Started: 1/1/2021
Finished: 1/2/2021

First book of the new year, enjoyable Holmes pastiche.