"Having kidnapped the rake, Persephone Ballard found she was not entirely certain what to do with him."
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From "The Christmas I Stole a Viscount" - a free holiday novella if you sign up for Vasti's newsletter. I loved the tagged book and from the first line of this one, I think it's also going to be a hoot!
Not exactly "festive" reading!
I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.
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so-soI enjoyed this novel about Sadie, an undercover agent infiltrating a commune in France. The strong writing & Sadie‘s wry voice & cynical humour pulled me along, but Bruno‘s emails about anthropology dragged. They felt like essays only loosely connected to the story. I liked Sadie‘s dark, opinionated humour & the thought-provoking ideas about corporate espionage. Too meandering for a spy novel & the ending was contrived & unsatisfying.
“The planes looked like distant pinpoints at first, and few who saw them took them seriously even up to the moment they dropped their payloads.”
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so-soExtremely well researched book but overly long winded and quite dull at times
pickI‘ve finally got around to reading Le Carre, and it did not disappoint. A murder mystery set in the early 1960s at upper crust school Carne, this felt like a British Raymond Chandler. The scenery, dialogue and characters enjoyable, weaving through the whodunnit entertaining. I only learned today that this is his only book outside of an espionage setting. I‘m not sure I‘d love his others in that case but I‘ll give them a go.
This one is for fun, love me a Slow Horses tale. That is our new pup Goldie playing with hubby in the background. She is a handful being a 1 year old Lab rescue from Kalamazoo SPCA, she came up from Louisiana so experiencing snow for the first time and loves frolicking in the deep parts.
pickApril 2025 Book #4
I enjoyed this book inspired my true events. I was absorbed in the book but also I was searching for some historical events. I like the author‘s writing style. Love the cover. After I finished the book, I bought three more books by this author. Couldn‘t finish them this month but looking forward to read them later. 3.8/4⭐️
