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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

January 8, 2019 by narfna 4 Comments

I went into this expecting the corruption, murder, institutional racism, etc. against the Osage Indians to be very bad, and I still somehow managed to come out of this book mindboggled. This book should be taught in schools, and it is heinous that these terrible things happened, and just as heinous that so many people covered it up, and practically erased it from history. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the US were the Osage. By sheer coincidence, after their tribe was […]

When you’re punished, you get bumped to the late show

December 31, 2018 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

This book is somehow the beginning of a series. If you ever read a review of mind before you know that I always start series in the middle, so it’s weird that I started this one of the beginning. Anyway, This 1st book is about detective Renee Ballard, who was placed on the night shift, which is where the police officers go when they’ve misbehaved. Unfortunately for rene, she didn’t actually misbehave. She just accused her supervising officer of sexual harassment, and nobody backed her […]

More Gideon and Sirius

December 29, 2018 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

This is the fourth book in the Gideon and Sirius series. I believe I’ve read all four of them in this current Cannonball. After reading to the end, the author said he’s got at least two more books in the works. Hopefully I’ll get to read and review them for CBR11! In this book, Gideon ends up working about three cases at once. They all kind of sneak up on him while he’s going about his life. He’s volunteering at Angie’s Rescue (or Heather’s Rescue, […]

End of CBR10 panic post!!!

December 28, 2018 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

So my December has been suuuper crazy. Work is insane, and I’ve been trying to fit in reading with all the extra working I’ve been doing. I’ve been falling asleep at night without reading, which is not normal for me. Anyway, even when I have finished books, I haven’t had the time or energy to review them! I write all day at work (nothing fun or exciting), so sometimes it’s hard to write these reviews after long days of work. That’s why I’m shoving these […]

I don’t want to go into those Dark Places either

November 30, 2018 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

cbr10bingo…White Whale I accidentally bought this on my Kindle on March 6, 2015. I don’t think I had even read Gone Girl yet at that point, but I think I had heard about Ms. Flynn. This has been on my “to read” list for a while now, so I’m calling it my White Whale. Like I said above, I have the Kindle version, but I wasn’t reading it, and I’m reading another book on my Kindle currently, so I downloaded the audiobook version and I listened […]

Somehow this series still works.

November 29, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

This one started out really strong for me, and then petered out near the end, for a couple of reasons, which I will be marking in spoiler tags. Mary and Holmes continue to be a great pair, and I find their cerebral marriage a compelling one, though I am beginning to get a bit annoyed with King for discounting Watson so much. Here, we meet an old friend from the first book, the archaeologist Dorothy Ruskin, who shows up in Sussex for a visit, and […]

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