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28/11/2025

Apple’s new series Down Cemetery Road sent me down a deep, deep Mick Herron rabbit hole. I used two Audible credits to listen to the first two Zoe Boehm mysteries (the first with a foreword by Emma Thompson, whose Zoe is the epitome of cool) and then, because several million other people also just discovered Mick Herron, the library websites (shhhhh I still have library access in two cities) had long waitlists, but I was able to snag the fifth Slow Horses book, Spook Street, and the latest one, Clown Town. Then I went back and picked up the Apple series Slow Horses where I had left off a while back, in Season 3, and watched all the way through to the end of Season 5, already knowing who wasn’t going to make it to 2025. The writing is laugh-out-loud funny, especially Jackson Lamb’s creative insults, and I love that the crew of rejects solve cases in SPITE of the anodyne career-polishers back at official HQ.

While I'm recommending online resources for book-lovers, let me plug StoryGraph (again, link in comments). A friend post...
06/01/2025

While I'm recommending online resources for book-lovers, let me plug StoryGraph (again, link in comments). A friend posted some of their visual stats and the book cataloguer in me got FIRED UP so I joined and started entering books I've read. This is the top of my genre chart; no surprises there for a page about reading mysteries. But what has surprised me is that as I pull up an author and prepare to click "read" on every single book, I'm finding that I have not actually read all of every favorite author. I probably started with advance copies for my column and then checked out whatever the library had, but I've missed some and I am currently enjoying the heck out of filling in those gaps! (A Superior Death by Nevada Barr on audio, What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty on ebook, both free on hoopla.)

I follow the FB page of this reading challenge and thought some of you might enjoy it, too. Link in the comments because...
06/01/2025

I follow the FB page of this reading challenge and thought some of you might enjoy it, too. Link in the comments because FB limits the reach of posts with links in them. It's a list of categories created by the Wichita, KS, public library. I recommend just playing for fun, since you have to physically show up in Wichita to get your prize.

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