After my skin check yesterday (I have a script for some chemo cream for my nose to start next winter) but before my next appointment with the building manager in my other apartment block to change the battery in the smoke detector as I can‘t reach it) and my 🩰 performances last night, I managed to fit in a trip to Kmart where I got my babies some cheap outfits and an op shop. I think the earrings will work for one of my Xmas dos. Grand total $15.
pickTrigger warning: all the triggers. Name one, it's in there. As the title states it's really, really dark (I don't know what the German cover should express, tbh). Lehane is working on his characters in this one, sharpening them. But not only the human ones, but also the city all his books are set in: Boston. It's a strong book, well plotted and even if I might forget the story itself I won't forget all the feelings connected to it.
pickI started this in April at the park on a mood, and finished in August. Fast-paced (for me, I'm slow), good characterization, fun that Spenser consults his degreed, therapist wife on cases to gauge the psychology and possible motivations behind people, and so that he can think about all the details of the case he's learned and piece some sort of puzzle in how to fix the problem and close the case. Odd I'm going for these tough guy characters.
pickI'm still not sure how to feel about a white man writing about black topics. And how could I as a white person possibly be able to judge? But still, I loved the atmosphere in this book. It's all dark, very dark, and comes with a lot of triggers warnings. It comes with racism, it comes with alcohol, it comes with sexism. It's an uncomfortable book, but that's Lehane writing here.
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pickWritten in 1971, I can definitely see how influential this novel must have been on many of the recent noir revival in American crime. Fizzing with witty dialogue this is the story of how Eddie is at the centre of gun running for various criminal gangs, including those involved in cross state border bank heists, while there is also ref to black panthers and hippy gangs. The book also features fbi officers hunting the crims. Short but v satisfying
so-soOn any given day in 1919, Babe Ruth, whose observing background presence is the best part of the story, can hit a ball to the sky. He can also strike out. The lives of characters here can change in the flash of a gun, the birth of a child, the spreading of sickness, a sudden trade. Hope, however, begins with arrival in a new home, a city that itself is arriving in a new era, where despite the world‘s present ugliness, anything seems possible.
pickAbsolutely beautiful in its character development. I wish it had been longer. This has been the summer of Ann Patchett for me. I‘m so glad I finally got on board!
