People kept telling me this series was great and I kept procrastinating, but I'm here to tell you that wow this book was everything I didn't know I needed. It's not only old-folks-solving-murders, it's old folks who are vibrant and believe in community who create lives for themselves that are so rich that they bring in others who also need them in their lives, and together they solve murders old and new. I don't know how to explain it, but it's wonderful.
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sarah reviewed The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
sarah started reading The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
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sarah reviewed Role Playing by Cathy Yardley
Cute!
3 stars
I maybe shouldn’t read books about moms facing empty nests because it’s too real, but I liked the rapport between the two leads and the happy ending of romance and peace with who you are
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sarah reviewed The Hunter: a Novel by Tana French
don't expect it to be a procedural and you'll love it
5 stars
I'm a big Tana French fan, and I especially love these last two, in which she really seems to be working through the moral implications of police procedurals when police violence is so omnipresent. Cal's less isolated here and that's only making his life more difficult when it comes time for him to sort out what justice means, and that's what makes this book work.
sarah reviewed The Expectant Detectives by Kat Ailes
sarah reviewed The Wreath by Sigrid Undset
sarah commented on Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Just realized that since I listed this as one book rather than the 3-in-1 collection it is, it’s going to throw off my reading stats! Lolsobbbbb trying not to count the number of books I read anyway
sarah started reading Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
sarah reviewed The Language of Power by Rosemary Kirstein
I don’t want this to be done!!
5 stars
Actually finished this weeks ago, but have been in denial because it’s the last one but it’s at a cliffhanger! The plot isn’t done!! So close and yet so far!! Still thinking about what makes these books so compelling. It’s the way of thinking about what magic is, absolutely. But it’s also about what community is and what knowledge is and why curiosity is important. Grateful to the friend who recommended these and said to dive in without reading anything about them first.
sarah started reading The Language of Power by Rosemary Kirstein
sarah reviewed The Lost Steersman by Rosemary Kirstein
!!!! I did not expect it to go this way
4 stars
What can I say, these are still so good, and I am just eating them up. A lot of trauma in this one in ways that I did not anticipate, although that seems redundant because even once I felt like I got the secret of these books, they continue to add layers.