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A soft pick. I found this at a book festival. The author was so interesting that I had to buy the book. 🙃 Present day Danish PI seeks to solve a murder that may have ties to a Nazi collaborator. It‘s a good mystery that is bogged down by slow pacing. The author wrote waaay too much about the clothes the PI wears and the food he eats. While these details add flavor to the book and help introduce the main character, it‘s too much. ⬇️

This book is incredible!! It's definitely one of my new favourites!
It has everything in it. Violet and Xaden are amazing characters. I'm so excited for book two to come out.
I get what all the hype was about!

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Goodrich sets out on three separate biking trips to navigate close to Underground Railroad routes in the United States - these would be paths taken by enslaved peoples seeking freedom from slavery. Part travelogue, part history, and part a look at the Blues music genre, this was fascinating. I learned a bit about lesser known stories of courage and sacrifice. In a way, it‘s also a look at poverty in the US and its ties to racism. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

A fun read. A podcaster returns to teach a class, at the fancy boarding school of her childhood where she was an outsider and her once roommate was murdered. Reads like a mystery, layered with interesting takes on the #metoo movement and grooming, collective memory, race and privilege, the exploitative nature of true crime, wrongful imprisonment and so much more. Sharp and nuanced, I found the ending unsatisfying but all the more realistic for it.

Even better than the last installment, we see Nat back at school and dealing with more self-doubt and friendship troubles. Her ex-best friend turned enemy turned friend is being awful again, her true best friend befriends said jerk, there‘s a new student and a new principal. The best part of this one is the “doubt gremlins,” and some fantastic ways to deal with them. Recommend the whole series and this one in particular.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Branch Davidians, a Seventh Day Adventist offshoot cult stockpiled an arsenal in preparation for a supposed doomsday. The US government caught wind. Y‘all know the rest. Twelve year old me remembers watching this in total befuddlement. I wish I‘d known then how much I would come to love studying cults. Not my favorite Guinn, but I blame my lack of interest in David Koresh.

Turns out I can remember one #tripleplay 😂

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This is a prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree, which may turn out to be my top read of 2022, so to say I'm looking forward to it is a massive understatement!