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Not only is Attica Locke a very good writer, she‘s a master crafter of stories. This is her debut, and there are some rough bits, but it‘s nonetheless an excellent, complex, well-crafted story. Great social commentary on both capitalism and race.

This was my least favorite of all three of Attica Locke‘s books. Just could not get myself to care about the characters.

Day 6 #12Booksof2020 @Andrew65

I think I may incorporate my new moon light in all of my book photos. 😂

Great pick for #LMPBC, Tammy! I somehow managed to read the second Jay Porter book first (also loved it), but that didn‘t give me any issues reading this. Courtroom mysteries aren‘t usually my thing, but I love the way Attica Locke writes, and Jay is such a wonderfully complicated character. I loved the way the book kept dipping into his past.

Good on many levels!

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Attica Locke was my first thought for this week's #integrateyourshelf prompt! Have read her Highway 69 books (Bluebird Bluebird and Heaven my Home), have got The Cutting Season to read but need to get the other 2!

I reckon I should be allowed bonus points for sticking to my team's theme, but it's 1pt for participation only, taking me to 480pts for #teamslaughter @Clwojick #scarathlon2020

@ChasingOm @Emilymdxn

#BookReport - Finished 2 books this past week and read 245 pages of the Year of the Witching and bailed.

Currently reading Find Me as it‘s a 2 week loan from the library. I‘m about 50 pages in and it‘s good so far.

#WeeklyForecast - I have so many books I want to read this month, but I hope to pick these up soon.

#BookSpin book #BookSpinBingo #LMPBC

This book was really good and intense. Such a great mystery and so much going on. At first I wasn‘t so sure, but it really picks up. A second Attica Locke book I enjoyed. Great pick Tammy! I don‘t want to say too much because 1 more person still needs to read it.

Hubby is working on the roof (something that was supposed to be 30 mins has turned into 2 hours 🙄 and still not done)

But that just means I‘m making a dent in my #LMPBC book! Almost 100 pages in. This book is really interesting!

Happy Saturday!

Here are my #BookSpin - Black Water Rising (for #LMPBC) and #DoubleSpin - Mexican Gothic (for my in real life book club in October)

I‘m excited to read both of these this month!

#LMPBC #Round9 #GroupL
My first Attica Locke! Incorporating US & political history via flashbacks to lawyer Jay Porter‘s earlier years of protest, seeking justice during the late sixties, his jail time & trial. Moles, wire tapping, FBI infiltration- links to the present as Jay unexpectedly finds himself in the middle of a quagmire of a murder investigation that endangers his life, his family, his work.Kept me guessing! Thanks to @Butterfinger !

A killing at Houston during a civil rights movement in the early 80s. Attica Locke is one of the best mystery writers. Coming to you @kspenmoll - @Laughterhp @sprainedbrain I hope you all have a great weekend.

Started this audiobook while the kids splash around on this hot summer day! 💦☀️💦

1. Childhood
2. Not yet, but the TBR is getting low and I want to support some book stores
@TheSpineView

1. Black Water Rising
2. The Little Prince
3. BN Plantation
4. No re-reads. Too many to read out there
5. Hunger Games, maybe?
6. Jeez! It's over 2000 titles strong!
7. Oz
8. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
9. 34 of 120
10. Dining table alone
11. The Oz series
12. Tagging @Reggie
Thanks to both @KarenUK and @cdcnmac for the tags
#Quarantinereadschallenge

Attica Locke does such a great job of capturing the people and setting of East Texas.

This was a great mystery/thriller fueled with racial tension and a lawyer just fighting to get justice for the little guy.

Jay is an African American lawyer in 1980‘s Houston with a flailing law practice and a pregnant wife and a past that has broken him and left him a prisoner of his own fear. And then he rescues a woman who may have been fleeing an abusive lover or may be a murderer. Whatever it is Jay is afraid of getting involved but just seems to be pulled deeper and deeper into a web of lies, corruption and violence. I loved it.

Read Bluebird, Bluebird and became a fan immediately. This is her first book, and it‘s equally impressive. Ex-radical activist turned community lawyer is just trying to make a living, and is sucked onto a whirlpool of political and corporate corruption during Houston‘s oil boom. He and his pregnant wife are witnesses to a murder, and he is reluctantly drawn into an union strike. Evocative of the city and the times; racism and betrayal the same.

Great mystery. 4 ⭐️

Aaaand done with #24in48 🎉 I‘m still planning to finish this one tonight though it‘s so so good!

I loved this protagonist and his backstory. Corporate greed, loss of youthful idealism, lots more. Thank you, Attica Locke, for proving that a great plot doesn‘t mean wooden characters and bad dialogue. I‘m not naming any names.

Attica Locke is one of my favorite authors! If you haven‘t read this book I highly recommend it! There is a sequel to the book too!

Book- Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
Food- Bacon
Author- Octavia Butler
Movie- Big - One of my favorite Tom Hanks movies
#MANICMONDAY

Do you ever just pick up a book and realize that while there is nothing really wrong with it, you just don't like it? This is how I felt reading this one. It has all the elements that I normally enjoy in a crime novel but I found my mind wandering while I read it and the pacing was a little slow. I've heard really good things about this author's most recent novel and I've really wanted to try her stuff and I still intend to. 2.5🌟 #87of2018

Trying out Attica Locke!

Ok it's hella late and I worked too much and my brain is half asleep so just gonna say that this was enjoyable and gripping at times, but a wee bit implausible at others. Did like the author's writing style and the characters, and will definitely read more from her. Hoping her work gets stronger chronologically. 3/5 ⭐️

Her newest book came out a few months ago (I think?) and it's gotten a lot of praise, but with a new-to-me author, I like starting at the beginning ...
#nowreading #femmeuary #blackhistorymonth

Library sale haul!

Oil, race and murder combine in this slowly simmering #debut novel set in 1980's Houston. Attica Locke draws the reader in through description so expertly crafted that you feel the humidity of the bayou settling on your skin. Some characters could be more attentively drawn and the ending, while satisfying and believable, clearly points toward a continuation of the plot in a following book. I will definitely read more by Locke. 4/5 ⭐️

#crime

Almost done with this one! So glad I accidentally discovered this author. And I'm ever so grateful that Maya shares her couch with me. 🐶 #dogsoflitsy

Reading in the sunroom. ☀️☀️ Enjoying my first Attica Locke. #crime #debut

(Enjoy the puppy butt 😁🙄)

I have no shortage of books to read here at my palace, but that does not keep me from wandering into my local library with book lust on a very regular basis. This week, I literally just grabbed a book off the shelf that caught my eye and took it home without so much as a glance at the jacket blurbs...so spontaneous!...and this is how I met Attica Locke. I *loved* BWR and quickly went back to snag Pleasantville. READING IS SO MUCH DAMN FUN!

Gritty, atmospheric drama set in Houston in the early '80's. Jay Porter is scraping by as a lawyer when he sees a woman drowning one night. From there, the story bends and weaves, touching on issues of race, economics, the oil industry and political corruption. Very well constructed.

Library trip = new TBR pile. #librarybooks #tbr

This are the books I could find with a #colorinthetitle! #splashintosummerreads

#maybookflowers Body of water - Excellent book and I need to read the sequel.

Riveting book! The author expertly put you in the scene-the characters were complex and the setting gritty and real. It kept me guessing and I couldn't put it down. Can't wait to read another of hers! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Loving this dark noir set in Houston, Texas. A little dark for this beautiful early spring morning with the birds singing but there you go! #currentread

I wavered between pick and so-so for this one. The characters are interesting and the writing is good, but the story seemed about 100 pages too long to me. I do have a lot going on at the moment so it could just have been because of the distractions. I will give the second one a go! #LitsyAtoZ #LetterL #LitsyReadingChallenge #LRC3 #womanofcolorauthor

#ReadJanuary This is my current read that's set in a warmer climate - Houston, TX in the summer in the early 80s. I wouldn't want to be in this story, but I could stand a visit to Houston!

"Mom, please put down the book and play with meeeeee!!!!" He's trying to tempt me, but I'm trying to finish this one before the new year!

#booktober Attics Locke is one of my new favorite authors. I've read two of her books and can't wait for more! This amazing piece of work was he debut novel. I can't wait to read the sequel.

🔔🔔🔔 I love Attica Locke and her Black Water Rising is $1.99. (I recently read her next book should be coming fall 2017 and I'm already excited.)

I love Attica Locke and will read anything she writes! Just saw her Black Water Rising is .99cents ebook & thought I'd share if it's on your TBR list.