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Reading List: Books with Racially Diverse Main Characters

November 12, 2020 / 14 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

There are an increasing number of books out there featuring BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Person of Colour) main characters. The “default” is still white main characters, but the call for more diverse characters is louder and more insistent, and authors are stepping up to fill the gap. BIPOC authors writing characters from their own cultures (#ownvoices) are particularly sought after.

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John Fiske is looking for The Simple Truth

November 10, 2020 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

I have just started in on David Baldacci’s The Simple Truth.
I always pick up Baldacci and have rarely been disappointed. This is a book along the lines of a Grisham legal thriller or Michael Connelly’s Lincoln Lawyer series.

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Real-life intrigue in Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill

November 3, 2020 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

I recently read Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, an account of his investigation into and exposure of Harvey Weinstein’s long history of sexual abuse in Hollywood, of the cover-ups that took place over decades by not only Hollywood, but by police departments, prosecutors, and the media.

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The Searcher: Tana French is Master of the Slow Burn

October 27, 2020 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

The Searcher is slow burn suspense. If you are looking for a high-octane thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end, this is not the book for you. Instead, it is a walk out on the Irish heath on a sunny day, watching the sheep graze, as the clouds gradually roll in, getting darker and darker, with the forest closing in around you.

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Don’t forget this one — Mr. Nobody

October 20, 2020 / 2 minutes of reading / 3 Comments

This week’s teaser is Mr. Nobody by Catherine Steadman. I’ve read a couple of this author’s books the last few weeks, and they are very engaging. Great medical or psychological thrillers.

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Fair Warning — It Could Happen

October 13, 2020 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Fair Warning is book 3 of Michael Connelly’s Jack McEvoy series. I don’t think that I’ve read either of the previous two books, but there was enough backstory to understand the broad strokes of what had happened earlier in the series.

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Trick or Treat! Get your Halloween Reads

October 6, 2020 / 12 minutes of reading / 2 Comments

I have no idea what Halloween is going to bring this year. Everyone is already wearing masks and has spent most of the year scared of something. Whether your tastes are for sweet or scary reads, you should find something in this list that suits your tastes.

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My new discovery – A Discovery of Witches

October 6, 2020 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

I am well into Deborah Harkness’s A Discovery of Witches, the first book in the All Souls Trilogy. I don’t think I’ve read anything else by this author, but I am certainly enjoying it.

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Mickey Haller Crosses the Aisle

September 29, 2020 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

I just finished reading The Reversal, book #3 in the Lincoln Lawyer series by Michael Connelly. It’s always great to slip back into a familiar series and see old friends like Mickey Haller and Detective Bosch. Mickey Haller, normally counsel for the defense, crosses the aisle in this case to act as an independent prosecutor against a child killer who was freed after twenty-four years due to DNA evidence.

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Whisper Network speaks loud and clear

September 22, 2020 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

I just finished reading Whisper Network by Chandler Baker. It is a Grisham-like legal suspense book about women in society, the workforce, and law in particular. If you are the type who does not like a book with an agenda, this one is not for you, because it is very clearly intended to address sexual abuse in the workplace and the means used to keep victim’s complaints from ever seeing the light of day.

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