April
Poppet
| Author : Mo Hayder 3/5 stars–I like her mysteries a lot. Oddly I tried reading one and couldn’t get through it but have since read four and liked them all. |
A Friend of the Family
| Author : Lauren Grodstein 3.5/5 stars–I felt like I had read this before, and also, it wasn’t THAT great. |
Rise and Shine : A Novel
| Author : Anna Quindlen 3.5/5 stars |
The Never List
| Author : Koethi Zan 4/5 SUPER compelling |
The Witness Wore Red : The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice
| Author : Rebecca Musser 3.5/5 stars I wouldn’t say the writing was fantastic or anything but still. Fascinating (and terrifying and rage making) stuff. |
The Circle
| Author : Dave Eggers 5/5 stars. Some of Eggers I can never get into (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) and some I think are fantastic (Zeitoun). The Circle is funny, wry, smart, and scary. And very, very cynical. |
The Smartest Kids in the World : And How They Got That Way
| Author : Amanda Ripley 3.5/5 stars. I wish she had been more critical of some pieces of US ed reform, but an interesting look at three countries. |
The Dinner
| Author : Herman Koch 4/5 stars. one of the most genuinely mean books I have ever read. I kinda loved it. |
Firestorm
| Author : Nevada Barr 3.5/5. Reread. I love me some Anna Pigeon. |
Hunting Season
| Author : Nevada Barr 3.5/5 stars. Ditto. |
I Fired God : My Life Inside—and Escape From—the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult
| Author : Jocelyn Zichterman 4/5 stars. Clearly this was a month of creepy religious cults. I liked this one more than Witness. |
Gone
| Author : Mo Hayder 3.5/5 stars. She’s good! |
Skin
| Author : Mo Hayder 3/5 stars. |
The Best of Us : A Novel
| Author : Sarah Pekkanen 2.5/5 stars. VERY light reading… |
Missing You
| Author : Harlan Coben 2.5/5 stars. Very compelling but not as funny as the Myron Boltair novels and god I wish Coben would stop trying to make A Point in his books. They are for fun, buddy. |
Destroyer Angel : An Anna Pigeon Novel
| Author : Nevada Barr 4/5 stars. A new Anna Pigeon is always cause for success even if this is not my favorite. |
The Twelfth Department
| Author : William Ryan 3.5/5 stars. Very compelling and I love Soviet mysteries. |
New England White
| Author : Stephen L. Carter 4.5/5 stars . Reread but not for years. So good. |
MARCH
The Cuckoo’s Calling
| Author : Robert Galbraith 4/5 stars. This is, in case you have been living under a rock, JK Rowlings mystery series. I quite liked it. |
Good As Gone
| Author : Douglas Corleone 2/5 stars. Eh. |
The Heroes of Olympus, Book Four: The House of Hades
| Author : Rick Riordan 3/5 stars. Listen I like a little YA fantasy as much as the next person. |
The Baby-Sitters Club #47: Mallory on Strike
| Author : Ann M. Martin 2/5 stars. I was housesitting, OK? |
The Winter People : A Novel
| Author : Jennifer McMahon 2.5/5 decent ghost story. |
The Shadow Tracer
| Author : Meg Gardiner 3.5/5 stars. Reread. Love her. |
After I’m Gone : A Novel
| Author : Laura Lippman 4.5/5 stars. It’s not Tess, but I still love Lippman. |
The Good Nurse : A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
| Author : Charles Graeber 5/5 stars. Fascinating and chilling. |
In the Blood
| Author : Lisa Unger 2.5/5. Eh. |
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec : A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery
| Author : Fred Vargas 4/5 stars. Definitely not as good as some Adamsberg mysteries. But still, Adamsberg! |
