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#20series20days #top20series - day 3

My number 1 favorite mystery. Malla Nunn should be far more popular than she is. Nunn gives readers a detailed understanding of apartheid South African society, across all race classes and social strata, while displaying masterful layering of clues and phenomenal skill in characterization. One of those books where at the end all the pieces just fall into place and you can't believe you didn't see it before.

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Books this year - 76
Black authors - 40 (53%)
Indigenous authors - 1
Non-BIPOC - 0
LGBTQIA+ - 5 that I know of

Favorite book this year (so far!) - A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn

I have a whole stack of books by Indigenous authors that I'm raring to read, but I committed to reading only Black authors this summer.

#integrateyourshelf

Review in photo.

You own a clock? It's broken. You own a gun? Ja, of course. 😆

Any ongoing #buddyreads I can join? I'm currently reading A Beautiful Place to Die and on a reading African Authors challenge, but I'm up for anything that's not too depressing.

Ok, so I've googled and hashtagged searched, but no dice. Can someone please tell me what a #bookspin is and how I can do it?

Charging the car and reading this new-to-me author for #ripxiv
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It‘s set in South Africa in 1952 when the new apartheid laws have gone into effect and an Afrikaner police officer is found dead

Have you read Malla Nunn‘s books before?

Just finished this mystery set in 1952
South Africa. Fast-paced and suspenseful, with an ending that has almost too many twists.

Next-up for #24in48, I‘m getting some things done around the house while listening to The Cut Out Girl on audio.

While I enjoy the readathon, she enjoys her snoozathon 😴

#24in48 #readathon #mystery #dogsoflitsy

Starting the #24in48 readathon! Here‘s my book stack for the weekend (audiobooks not shown). I‘m already partway through both A Beautiful Place to Die and Gilead, so I‘ll probably start off with those.

What are you reading today? 📚
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#readathon #reading #toread #weekendreads #bookstack #bookpile #reader #bookworm #librarybooks #readinglife #booklife

This one is fantastic and now I've just learned it's the first in a series. Excellent news❣️❣️❣️

The rain has been falling all day, but I've been transported to hot, dry South Africa and immediately sucked into this historical mystery set in the 1950's. Apartheid has just become law and the murder of a white police captain has set a small town on edge. This moment of levity made me laugh out loud. 🤓

I read a shitton of good books in January! I can't even pick a favorite so I'll link to all of them in the comments--and probably regret that decision halfway through 😂

Finished this on audio last night. This is a historical mystery set in South Africa just as the race laws were being put into place. The historical setting made his much more than a simple mystery, and it was a great, though painful at times, read.

Set on the boarder between South Africa and Mozambique in 1952 this story sucks you in until you can almost smell the volt, see the people and feel the tension between the races. The twist at the end comes from out of the blue and makes you want to smack a man who thinks he is all that. Turns out this is the first of a series and now I am off to the book store to get the next book.