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On Friday, I started two different books and couldn‘t stick with either. I binged the first season and a half of Slow Horses on Apple TV yesterday, started another book that I just can‘t stick with earlier today and am switching over to the tagged book that‘s been on my shelves for YEARS. I probably should wait until I finish all four seasons of the TV show, but I‘m hoping for a book I can‘t put down. 🤞🏻

Beach reading 🥰

ISBN: 9781611134940

Listening to this, narrated by Robert Glenister. Strike has found the missing man - but I'm only 1/3 through the book. Enjoying the story (set in London).

Harris builds this latest Sebastian St. Cyr mystery around the 1811 Radcliffe Highway Murders. As always, the mystery is well-crafted, the story fast-paced, the writing engaging, and the characters complex. I love all of the recurring characters (yes, even Jarvis, if only because it‘s so much fun to watch him and Sebastian needle each other). Even 16 books into the series, it hasn‘t gotten old or lost any quality.

If historical fiction doesn't send you down countless Wikipedia holes, is it really good historical fiction? This one had me looking up articles on my phone in the middle of the night. 😂 I liked it a lot.

This book caught my eye at the airport—it had been on my TBR list for a long time. The story is slow-paced but worth it. It‘s a gripping good vs. evil tale where good pays a heavy price. Camila, a wife and mother to a 9-month-old, returns to work after maternity leave, only for her life to spiral. By nightfall, her loving husband Luke is revealed as both a captor—and a killer.

May has not been a good reading month for me. I have admittedly had a lot going on which may be part of it, but this is another DNF for me. The story just didn‘t grab me really at all…

I adore Bryant, May, and the entire Peculiar Crimes Unit. The solutions to the cases are not things I could predict, but they are brilliant and clever. I'm not totally sold on the audiobook narration, but this is a case where the story is so good, I can overlook any issues with it.
This is my #bookspin #doublespin for May. 🥳

I‘ve had this on my TBR for a while after reading Dear Committee Members a few years ago. This is satire but still familiar to anyone who has worked in higher ed or who has traveled with a group. I really enjoyed it! The MC is just a grumpy as before but he becomes more endearing as this one goes on. #JumpStartSummer

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Paper's floundering.
Sold your soul to the devil ...
now first with the scoop.

One of my favorite episodes from THE TWILIGHT ZONE. I loved teaching the motif of “selling your soul to the devil“ to my high school students. 👺