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The Innocent by David Baldacci
This is the first book to feature Will Robie, a highly skilled U.S. government assassin. (2012)
Non-stop action.
Silly plot.
But I actually enjoyed it.
Flowers – season 1
The Guardian praised the series and called it “a gloriously dark sitcom about depression and rage“.
It’s DARK. Very dark.
With very smart and original dialogue. Funny.
Intense.
Sometimes hard to watch.
Flowers is a British black comedy–drama sitcom …
… the Flowers family, consisting of depressed father and children’s author Maurice (Barratt); music teacher wife Deborah (Colman), their 25-year-old twin children: inventor son Donald (Daniel Rigby) and musician daughter Amy (Sophia Di Martino); Maurice’s senile mother Hattie (Leila Hoffman); and Maurice’s Japanese illustrator Shun (Sharpe). …
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I tried starting on season 2 … but it was a bit too weird for me.
Pretty Things by Janelle Brown
Two wildly different women—one a grifter, the other an heiress—are brought together by the scam of a lifetime.
Good book. Fascinating plot.
2020 technologies like Instagram, GPS and digital video cameras critical to the story.
Recommended — though it is too long. Rather than telling the same incident from two different perspectives, more skillful would have been to briefly REACT from the other person’s point of view.
Best ways to get Audio Books 2021
FREE from your public library is best for sure.
I use the IOS Libby app, though there are others that are similar.
I’m with Calgary Public Library quite happy with the selection. I can get almost any book I want — though sometimes I’m on the waiting list for a couple of months.
I gave my library a big donation in 2020 as I was using the service more than ever.
Audible.com by Amazon is the market leader.
I’ve bought hundreds of books over the years. They have a better selection than my library and there’s no waiting.
That said — I’m thinking of cancelling Audible next time round. Prices have never gone down and they’ve not innovated much in all the years I’ve been paying my subscription.
IF dying to get an audiobook right away in future, I’ll simply buy it.
I tried Scribd. Didn’t like it enough.
MIGHT try Audiobooks.com, another Audible competitor. But it’s the same price, same benefits, so I’ll probably cancel after my free trial. AND I hear unused credits expire in only three months. No go.
A beginner’s guide to listening to audiobooks
Butterfly Kills by Brenda Chapman
2nd in the series featuring Kala Stonechild, an intriguing First Nations woman and police detective.
One hot week in late September, university student Leah Sampson is murdered in her apartment. In another corner of the city, Della Munroe is raped by her husband.
At first the crimes appear unrelated, but as Sergeant Rouleau and his new team of officers dig into the women’s pasts, they discover unsettling coincidences. …
brendachapman.ca
Quite good. An interesting plot.
I’ll continue with book #3.
Aussie TV – Deep Water
This was the 3rd Australian TV show I’d watched during the pandemic. All excellent.
Deep Water is a four-part miniseries based on the historical, unsolved hate murders of possibly 30 to 80 gay men in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and beaches in the 1980s and ’90s.
Very intense.
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Michael Koryta – Never Far Away
Nina Morgan’s blood-stained car was found a decade ago on a lonely Florida road. Forensic evidence suggested she’d been murdered, although her body was never found.
Her disappearance left her infant children to the care of their father.
Once a pilot, mother, wife, and witness to a gruesome crime, Nina had to flee her old life to save her family.
She reinvented herself as Leah Trenton, a guide in the Allagash Wilderness in northern Maine.
She never expected to see her children again, but now tragedy has returned them to her—only they have no idea that she’s their mother—and delivered all of them back into danger. “Aunt Leah” will need some help, and an old ally has a suggestion: an enigmatic young hitman named Dax Blackwell.
michaelkoryta.com
Koryta is one of my favourite authors. This 2021 book is one of his best.
Most impressive are his villains. Dax Blackwell is fascinating.
Koryta’s “Those Who Wish Me Dead” should be released in film in 2021.
Rights to “Never Far Away” have also been acquired.
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Wonders of the World in 4K
I’ve visited many of these wonderful places, but not all.
#dreaming
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