Finished Source Code which is a Bill Gates autobiography from childhood through launch of Microsoft. That guy was insanely driven even as a young kid. I highly recommend it.
After Dark was a decent Murakami. Would probably only recommend to his more hardcore fans but it was a very quick read.
Started up “The Girl Who Played With Fire”
Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde.
Up next are The Women by Kristin Hannah and Bride by Ali Hazelwood.
Bride is a vampire romance, which is something I don’t think I’ve ever read. It’s for book club. I always say, “Let’s read something different,” and this is what the group settled on. I am highly amused.
next genre - Detective
Better Off Dead -Children
Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for life: Rule 7, JP gets emotional
didn’t know Joseph Wambaugh died,
so changing it up Hollywood Crows
never heard of this one
13 Hours - forget the author. inside record of the benghazi event
Currently reading Pines by Blake Crouch, then moving on to The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan
South of the Border West of the Sun by Murakami. I enjoyed this one and it’s a quick read.
Also 2/3 of the way through Revenge of the Tipping Point. Some really interesting stuff but I feel like he cherry picks data to make a good story.
Finished this.
Started “The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.”
trust those feelings. but i generally still like the stories at least
I stopped at a Barnes & Noble the other day. I picked up two books that looked fun:
1.) The Greatest Beer Run Ever - JT Maloy/John Donohue
2.) The Let Them Theory - Mel Robbins
Recently finished Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner. Short listed for the Booker prize etc, but only has 50% liked this book on goodreads, which makes sense. Her writing style is light hearted yet smart, but ultimately I found it disappointing.
Needed a book for the train yesterday, so grabbed Cinder. I think I gave it to my oldest kid at some point. It’s a YA cyperpunk retelling of Cinderella that does what it says it well. I don’t remember whether or not they liked it, but think that I would have liked it when I was 11-12.
I finished The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton. At the start the style of writing annoyed me (it’s like he was told to add adjectives, so everything gets labeled with a color, for instance), got good in the middle (and I didn’t notice the adjective problem anymore), then dragged at the end. The last survivors on earth are living on a Greek Island surrounded by a deadly fog. The narrator is a something that has the ability to “speak” into the heads of many of the islanders. After some murders occur, the fog starts to move toward the island and the narrator says it can only be stopped by solving the murder. An interesting concept, anyway. Right from the start, I was expecting it to be M Night Shyamalan’s The Village and that’s partially right, but it’s more convoluted than that.
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman is next in the queue. I’m not surprised he moved on to another series, after he advanced the Thursday Murder Club too fast imo.
I recently read The Thursday Murder Club and enjoyed it. I didn’t realize he had started another series, I’ll have to pick it up at some point.
Bride has been surprisingly captivating about 2/3 through, and light on the romance thus far, as opposed to world building. But that’s starting to change.
I’ll be binge reading (listening) today & tomorrow.
Finished this.
Writing style should not be so detailed regarding the streets and villages of Stockholm that all sound alike, as well as people’s names, and other towns in Sweden. Might be a treat for Stockholm residents, though. A map (a la "A Song of Ice and Fire’) and a glossary of characters (a la “My Brilliant Friend”) might have helped.
Other than that, I highly recommend. A little disturbing, a little gory, some sexual situations.
Not sure I want to bother with the second or third trilogies, written by others. Quality is likely to drop off similar to “Star Wars” movies. And the third book finishes neatly.
Swedish films/TV are on AppleTV+, so as soon as my wife needs a new phone, we will binge whatever is on there (Morning Show, Shrinking, this).
My BiL is working on Shrinking, and they’ve had issues with filming due to the fires in Altadena, close to Pasadena. Oh, and Ford got shingles, which also shut down production.
My wife just finished Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty which features an actuary in a major role.
The Klansman’s Son by R. Derek Black.