Just started. This is the best first chapter I‘ve read in a long time!
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Just started. This is the best first chapter I‘ve read in a long time!
I did not have any 5-star fiction reads this month, but Killers of a Certain Age was exciting, action-packed, and funny.
I liked Big Swiss a lot and I was hoping it would win, but it faltered a bit and at times I was not really sure what it was going for.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold and The Raging Storm were both just fine, nothing remarkable.
#readingbracket2024
pickI was getting service done on my truck. What better ways to spend time than finishing this book. I have one more spot in the #ISpyBingoFebruary. Yep, I'm still working on this one. This is the first in the series of Nadia Stafford. She is a police officer turned assassin. #SeriesLove24 #ReadAway2024 #MarvelousMarchReadsthon. @Andrew65 @TheSpineView @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES #LitsyLoveReads
#MarvelousMarchReadathon I have 3 books I'll be working on for sure, plus I will finish up two BuddyReads. #JaneAdjacent and #InDeathLongReadathon @Andrew65 @StayCurious
February #wrapup
True Diary - in person book club - 4⭐️
The Burden - #MaryWestmacottBookClub - 3.5⭐️
The Postcard - #EuropaCollective - 4.5⭐️
Housekeepers - 3.5⭐️
Killers - #AuldLangSpine - 4⭐️
pick3.5/5⭐ It feels weird to say this about a book whose main characters are assassins and kill people throughout, but it is fun. It is refreshing to read about older kickass women. The writing is a little weak and repetitive, reminding the reader of events/details that are explained just the chapter before. #bookspin
#52bookclub24 - picked without reading the blurb
#12Booksof2023 This was my favorite book of August, as well as my favorite book for the year!
Four female assassins in their sixties, who've been working as a team for forty years, finally decide it's time to retire. What starts as a retirement celebration cruise ends much differently than they'd planned. @Andrew65
I read a lot of books that I really liked this year! But I think Killers of A Certain Age just really stuck with me because the premise of the story was one I hadn't read before. The Last Devil to Die was a very, very close second- I absolutely loved that entire series!
pick#Rushathon
I really had fun with this one—it reminded me of The Thursday Murder Club combined with the movie Red with Bruce Willis. The assassin & agency stuff was interesting & the characters entertaining & I enjoyed the mature woman-power vibe. I‘d love another book with these women & it made me want to move the author‘s other books higher on my TBR.
(Just one more book in the #BOTM challenge that I should finish sometime this week! 📚🎉📚)
pickFinished my first book for #CloakandDaggerChristmas ! Prompt: Last Christmas- read a book published last year.
A soft pick. I enjoyed the plotting/spy craft (this is more James Bond than Jane Marple), but the characters were a little blank. 4 female agents retire from an secret agency at 60 only to find themselves unfairly targeted for a crime. They band together to clear their names and get back at the men who have always underestimated them.
