Nostalgia led me to reread both Inspectors Lynley & Gamache this month. Read them as each was published so I forgot enough to enjoy the process.
Nostalgia led me to reread both Inspectors Lynley & Gamache this month. Read them as each was published so I forgot enough to enjoy the process.
#bookreport #April2toApril8 #2023
Read more of Googleplex earlier in week but not since. Slow going. I am enthralled with Adrienne Rich & finished this weeks chapters. Read inly 1 article in NYT Book Review. Finished Payment in blood, started a Great Deliverance,next in the series. #adventuresinPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety #subdaybuddyread #DILinley #BarbaraHavers #serieslove #serieslove2023 #OuterHerbrides
Thanks to the FAA, I‘ve flown through 2 books and I still have 1 flight to go! ✈️
My nonstop flight was delayed twice then cancelled then that flight was delayed twice. Landed only to find out our connection was cancelled. It‘s been an adventure!
I couldn't put it down and can't wait to start the next one. It's been a while since a detective series did that for me. My only slight criticism is that the ending came down like Everest's biggest avalanche; I could barely catch my breath before the next storm of information rushed by. I had to go back and read it to make sure I understood every clue and red herring. If you want a detective to follow, Inspector Lynley's your man.
#20Series20Days DAY 7
My passion for this series has waned with some of the more recent entries but the first 10 or were riveting! I get a little annoyed when it is referred to as “The Lynley Mysteries” because my favorite character, Barbara Havers, is equally important!
I need to pick up a new series like I need a hole in my head but I just can‘t resist. This is the first in the Inspector Lynley series and it checked all the boxes for me with its immersive setting, main characters with a complex history and an intriguing mystery with lots of red herrings. I‘ll just have to squeeze these in with my backlog of Ann Cleeves, Tana French, Louise Penny and Donna Leon. So many books, so little time!
#2020Book19
This mystery novel started out a little too slowly and I almost gave up on it. However, I'm glad I stuck with it, because the second half of the book was filled with twists and turns and a shocking finale. Also, major trigger warnings for basically all kinds of abuse, both to humans and animals.
It's been a damp, rainy day and now I'm sick. 😫 so it was a perfect afternoon to start watching the Lynley series. Via Hoopla. I'm liking it so far! Still desperately waiting for news of a new Lynley book from Elizabeth George though!
Read this on holiday. It‘s the first of books that became a series and a TV series with Inspector Lynley . I love this series so it was great to read the very beginning. First published in 1989. @MrsMalaprop
Yorkshire UK. Village of Kendale. A local farmer is found decapitated and his dog‘s throat has been slashed. Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sgt Barbara Havers are sent to investigate. Liked the interaction between these 2 characters which is a bit touchy at times. Found George to be an excellent writer with great characterizations and plot line. Ending was a bit horrific but still look forward to the next book. Highly recommend this series.
This was an interesting introduction to this series and overall I enjoyed it. An interesting duo in the two lead characters and looks like plenty of potential for them in this series. At times loved reading this and at other times it didn‘t flow as well. An interesting plot for the murder and liked the way it was laid out. I look forward to continuing this series.
Finished listening to Poppet by Mo Hayder yesterday.
Starting A Great Deliverance today - 1st book in Thomas Lynley series by Elizabeth George.
Up next is Buddy Read, Quentins by Maeve Binchy.
Keeping notes and characters in my reader‘s journal!
@Andrew65 @Tove_Reads Have you started this one yet?
#AGreatDeliverance #ElizabethGeorge
Starting off on the Inspector Lynley Series by reading the first book in the series. #InspectorLynleySeriesRead
Looking forward to this as have wanted to read this series for a while.
Digging into a new series #buddyread
So well written, great character development & psychological insight. I thoroughly enjoyed ( if that‘s the word ) this one. This is the first in the Inspector Lynley series .... I have the 2d downloaded already- Payment In Blood. Looking forward to it. Great read
I love this feature in the kindle ♥️🎉. Sometimes when I switch to a real book I find myself putting my finger on a characters name 🙄... does anyone else do that ? 😬 I might be getting on a bit ....
After some recent Litsy chat about this one ... I‘m about to start into it 👍🏻♥️ I‘m ready for some crime 😱
This is the first book in the Inspector Lynley mysteries, and also first book for me by this author. Very readable crime novel, interesting characters, set in remote English village, compelling twists and turns, and with very horrifying end.
I loved this introduction to Ms. George. I am now reading the Lynley series and loving it. Involved, complex, and loaded with great main characters. I would totally be friends with Lady Helen!
Photobombed by my dog, but what can you do. After this there wasn‘t a chance to get a pic of the books. Anyway, really looking forward to reading these!
The first nine books in the Inslector Lynley series are available for 99p I‘m the UK today.
@TK-421 #quotsyjan19 #injustice
“Women who desert husband and children should somehow end up in tenement buildings pungent with the odours of garlic and urine. ...Whatever they should be, Linley was certain they shouldn‘t be Tessa Teys Mowrey.”
In the next paragraph, the Sergeant asks if perhaps there might be a photograph in the attic. (Coming to love these characters.)
#quotsyjan19 #6fortune @TK-421
The sound of champagne, and somewhere in the garden the music of violin and flute. There were flowers everywhere, right out onto the front steps where the balustrades were twined with white and pink roses that filled the air with a heady perfume.
This is my introduction to Inspector Linley. I think I might like him.
These are my five suggestions for the next series crime buddy read @EadieB and @Tove_Reads
Let me know any of these you want to veto either because you have read more than one in the series already, you can‘t get hold of them or don‘t fancy.
If anyone else has read these series which would you recommend?
I am super pumped to be starting this series.
So far a great beginning to what I‘ve heard is an amazing series. Engaging and grabs you from the beginning. I am loving the complex characters...
Sneaking in some reading time while waiting for my husband to finish at the eye doctor. #24b4Monday #boutofbooks
This was my first Elizabeth George mystery and is the first Inspector Lynley novel. This surprised me because it felt like there is a backstory I didn't quite know. Written in 1988 it feels dated to me, I think because of some descriptions of female characters. Lynley seems like a haunted, but likable, guy.
Any advice on whether or not to continue the series?
#25in5
Here's my afternoon:
NASCAR
The Masters
Vegan Brownies
#25in5 (13 hrs 33 mins logged)
Beer
So excited to go with some Litsy friends and IRL book club members to an upcoming Author event on Friday!! Watermark Books is doing a great job getting more authors to come visit us in flyover country – Wichita, Kansas! 🌻 🌻🌻 #LitsyMeetUp #GetIndie
1. My brain went to my childhood, when it was probably something like Sweet Valley High. As an adult? Perhaps it's the Inspector Lynley series, by Elizabeth George (I'm caught up except for book #19).
2. I can't think of any. There are times that I read the first book in a trilogy and don't finish it out, but I'm not sure that counts.
3. I do both--probably 50/50.
4. Yes! I belong to two.
#PublishedInThe1980s #JuneBookBugs
@RealLifeReading
Still on Mount TBR.
Shopped at Paperback Exchange in Minneapolis while on a mini vacation. I love that store!!!!
After a day and a half of not being able to read, I got into the eye doctor to check out my eye. Finally feeling semi-normal, thanks to all the different eye drops. Hoping to make it past the first chapter now! #readingwithdrawal #bookbreak #libraryreads
This is most of my #libraryhaul for today. I also picked up the audio CD version of Victoria by Daisy Goodwin, which I started while driving around doing errands. (So far the audio is great!) Not sure where I'm going to start with this stack.
#toomanyoptions #lovethelibrary
I've read numerous Detective Lynley novels, and even though I didn't start at the beginning of the series, I was able to pick up on the characters and their relationships without too much trouble. But this, the first of the series, really sets it up so well. Hubby didn't realize I'd read some of her books when he gave me this. He bought it because its set mostly in Yorkshire. Picture from our trip time!😄
"Here, the only life belonged to the sheep. They wandered free and unfenced, unfettered by the ancient dry stone walls that constructed boundaries for their fellows in the dales below."
I've been transported back to Derbyshire and Yorkshire?
Not much time to read on this busy day, but I got a start on my first book of the new year.
Hubby got the message about not giving me any books for Christmas. Tomorrow is out 45th wedding anniversary, but we generally start celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, etc. the evening before, and especially tonight, since I have the follow up for my sinus procedure tomorrow. I've been told it won't be comfortable, which in doctor-speak is major pain. I love Inspector Linley, and he picked one I haven't read. Looking forward to this.
All right ya'll - send me your Reader Recs. Who should I be following on Litsy? Who do you follow that you love? I'm a big reader of #fantasy, #historicalfiction, and nowadays #cozymysteries. Plus anything set in Britain. So I would love to follow folks who have those same interests and post on same. #recommendareader
I've been binge reading the Inspector Thomas Lynley series! Another newly discovered series that I truly enjoy besides Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Gamache. Elizabeth George is an American who writes very convincing British mysteries. Reminiscent of PD James' writing style. 😀👍🏼
I bought all these books for $2.00. Now please tell me some of them are good reads?
I got to meet Elizabeth George yesterday! She gave a wonderful talk about her writing process and was as gracious with me - a new reader of the Lynley series - as she was with the super fans.