books-a-million? not quite.

Category: 50 Books

so i didn’t read 70 books. i did read 68 books this year. that’s close to 70, but who cares, my goal was 50 books and i broke that goal by quite a few books.

the ones i enjoyed the most were (in no particular order):

Tomato Girl by Jane Pupek
The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Family Bible by Melissa Delbridge
I, Tania by Brian Joseph Davis
Assassination Vacation and Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell

68. Night Work by Laurie R. King

Book four in the Kate Martinelli series. This one was back to mystery solving. I liked it because of that. In the previous book Martinelli was more involved in the crime because the girl was kidnapped on her watch, but in this one it’s just detectives solving a mystery and no one is trying to kill the detectives. Those type of stories seem more realistic and I enjoy them more. Um, it’s not as boring as I make it sound.

Ms. King does a great job of detective writing. The mysteries are always really involved and worked out. You can tell she loves mysteries herself.

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