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Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel | John le Carre

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After reading Karla‘s Choice, I had to go back to the original Smiley stories, starting with this first one. It‘s definitely more murder mystery than espionage story, but it introduces a character who will become significant in later Smiley books (and I‘d totally forgotten about that!). This is at least my 3rd time reading this one. It‘s safe to say I love it still.

Ruthiella Beautiful edition! 3w

Kimzey Great endorsement! Stacked! 3w

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TracyReadsBooks

Real Tigers | Mick Herron

I mean, that‘s sort of an emergency in my home…

😬😂

Ruthiella 😂😂😂 1mo

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TracyReadsBooks

Real Tigers | Mick Herron

Starting the weekend with Jackson Lamb!

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thebacklistbook

Moonraker (James Bond, #3) | Ian Fleming

8/100 this time. There are few that look interesting, I always meant to watch seven.
#tlt

dabbe I‘m too scared to watch that one! Thanks for playing and sharing! 🖤🧡🖤 1mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Joe Country | Mick Herron

so-so

Oh, Mick, you were doing so well in making each entry in this series a tensley-plotted and craftily-resolved story, with maybe a hint about what might be raised in the next novel. This alone provided an experience that had me coming back for more. This book, however, while containing as much tension and as many twists and turns, raised so many concerns, not enough of which were resolved, and those that were, were not very satisfactorily done. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? The big showdown with River and his father is nothing more than a cliffside scuffle, and a few pages at the end suggest Harkness's multi-book pain-in-the-assery is now dealt with, no justice or face-to-face closure for his son?! Or Harkness is not dead and this a bullshit misdirect. 🙄 Coe's literal worst nightmare is, for all the reader can tell, how he spent his last moments? 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Emma, the only person who after wrongfully being pushed out of a promising career track, tells Taverner to fuck off, rather than go Slough House, and helping out when it wasn't her job anymore, ends up dead?! The entire book is one long torturous descent of an innocent man into the depths of isolation and depression at the whims of bad actors and at the end he's scarred and his foes' fates are glossed over or pending? 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/5 It's obvious it's set up for the next novel, which hopefully will be that much more explosive as a result, but 6 books into a series is pretty deep to start bringing out the type of cliffhanger-adjacent endings which I loathe. 🙎🏼‍♂️ Oh, and if it's possible, even though it's standard that people die and are betrayed in each book, I think things actually got darker than usual. 😕 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 5/5 Either the next book will redeem the series, or it will be the last one I read. 😡
⚠️alcoholism, fatphobia, self harm 1mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Joe Country | Mick Herron