Books read, 2018

• 155 read

• 26.12.18. Skeleton Key, Alex Rider. Anthony Horowitz. Good, although I clearly remain not the target audience
• 17.12.18 the Midnight Line, Lee Child. Good
• 16.12.18 Javk Reacher's Rules. Lee Child. Kinda dumb
• 15.12.18 Night School. Lee Child. Excellent
• 14.12.18. Make me. Lee Child. Too much
• 13.12.18. Personal, Lee Child. Good
• 11.12.18 Never Go Back, Lee Child. Very good.
• 10.12.18 No Middle Name, Lee Child, good.
• 8.12.18 High Heat, Lee Child. Good.
• 8.12.18 Too good to be True, Anne Cleeves. Good.
• 8.12.18 Point Blank, Anthony Horowitz. Fine
• 7.12.18 A Wanted Man, Lee Child. Good
• 6.12.18 The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis. Good.
• 1.12.18. The garden of Evening Mists. Good, but frustrating
• 28.11.18 The Black House, Peter May. Dreadful, but excellent.
• 27.11.18 The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri, unexpected and wonderful.
• 25.11.18 Wildfire, Anne Cleaves. Good, sad the series ended
• 22.11.18 The Affair, Lee Child. Good
• 21.11.18 The Well of Ascention, Brandon Anderson. Good.
• 21.11.18 The Well of Ascention, Brandon Anderson
• 17.11.18. Worth dying for. Lee Child. Not so great.
• 17.11.18 61 Hours, Lee Child. Good
• 16.11.18 Gone tomorrow. Lee Child. Good.
• 13.11.18 Nothing to Lose, Lee Child. Good
• 12.11.18. Bad Luck and Trouble. Lee Child. Very good.
• 11.11.18 The Hard Way, Lee Child. Good.
• 10.11.18. Home Cooking, Laurie Colwin. Good
• 10.11.18 One Shot, Lee Child. Very good.
• 9.11.18 The Enemy, Lee Child. Good.
• 7.11.18 How to Think, Alan Jacobs, good, surprisingly readable and not patronizing!!!
• 6.11.18 Persuader, Lee Child. Good.
• 4.11.18 The Light keeper's Daughters. Jean E Penziwol. Excellent.
• 4.11.18 From Doon with Death, Ruth Rendall. Fine.
• 28.10.18 Without fail. Lee Child. Good
• 28.10.18. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz. Fine.
• 24.10.18 the Art of Eivalry. Sebastian smee. Generally good.
• 14.10.18 Lee Child, Echo Burning. Good.
• 10.10.18 The Anatomist, Bill Hayes. Excellent.
• 6.10.18 A shimmer of Hummingbirds, Steve Burrows, very good.
• 4.10.18 the word is murder, Anthony Horowitz. Fine.
• 3.10.18, Running Blind, Lee Child. Good.
• 28.9.18 A cast of Falcoms, Steve Burrows. Good.
• 26.9.18, Cold Earth, Anne Cleeves. Good. 2nd last in the series!!!!
• 24.9.18 Thin Air, Anne Ckeeves. Good
• 21.9.18, Trip Wire, Lee Child. Good. Skim some bits
• 20.9.18 Dead Water. Anne Cleeves, Very good.
• 19.9.18 A pitying of pigeons, Steve Burrows. Good
• 12.9.19 A Siege of Bitterns, Steve Burrows, Good
• 9.9.18 Blue lightning, Anne Cleeves. Good.
• 6.5.18 Die trying, Lee Child . Good, still extraordinarily violent, jad to skim a bunch.
• 31.8.18 Mistborn, The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson. Excellent
• 28.8.18 Buttermilk Graffitti, Edward Lee. Good.
• 28.8.18 Red Bones, Ann Cleeves. Very good.
• 27.8.18 The Hellfire Club, Jack Tapper. Fine
• 26.8.18 Well, That escalated Quickly, Francesca Ramsey. Good.
• 26.8.18 The Dog who Wouldn't Be, Farley Mowat. OK.
• 25.8.18 The world as we know it. Ben Rhodes. Fine, frustrating.
• 20.8.18. X. Sue grafton. O. K
• 14.8.18 w is for wasted. Sue Grafton. Fine
• 10.8.18 Anne Cleaves, White Nights. Good.
• 7.8.18 the Killing Floor, lee Child. Very violent, but a real page turner.
• 4.8.18 Raven Black, Anne Cleaves. Very good.
• 1.8.18 v is for vengance. Sue Grafton. Quite good.
• 28.7.18 The Godwulf Manuscript. Robert B Parker. Good.
• 27.7.18 U is for Undertow. Sue Grafton. That's better.
• 21.7.18 T is for Trespass. Sue Grafton. Creepy and unpleasant.
• 16.7.18 Yes, we (still) can, Dan pfeiffer. Really quite good.
• 15.7.18. S is for Silence. Sue Grafton. Good.
• 9.7.18 R is for Ricochet, Sue Grafton. Good.
• 2.7.18, Q is for Quarry, Sue Grafton. Good
• 22.6.18, Raising Cubby, John Elder Robison. Good.
• 17.6.18 The Mummy Case, Elizabeth Peters. Still good.
• 15.6.18 P is for Peril, Sue Grafton. Good, as expected.
• 13.6.18, Djibouti, Elmore Leonard. Ok
• 10.6.18 In the Shadow of Statues, a white southerners confronts history. Mitch Landrieu. Very good.
• 9.6.18 Up the Rhine and Down the Danube, Derek R Brown. Good.
• 8.6.18. My Antonia, Willa Cather. Lovely but for one section that was very racist.
• 6.6.18 O is for Outlaw, Sue Grafton. Good.
• 3.6.18. The Monk of Mokha, Dave Eggers. Fine.
• 1.6.18 The Cook8ng Gene, Michael Twitty. I got bogged down about halfway through and nearly quit, but pushed on and it was worth it.
• 1.6.18. N is for Noose, Sue Grafton. Very good.
• 30.5.18 Nemesis, Lindsay Davis. Sadly, the last in the series and the ending.....
• 29.5.18. Alexandria, Lindsay Davis. Good
• 27.5.18. M is for Malice, Sue Grafton. Excellent
• 24.5.18, Saturnalia, Lindsey Davis. Good.
• 22.5.18, The High Mountains of Portugal, Yann Martel. Excellent
• 21.5.18. The Long Way Home, Louise Penny. Good, an audio book, and they take soooooo long.
• 20.5.18 Ready Player 1. Ernest Cline. Not sure I'm the target audience, but it was very good.
• 19.5.18. Hyperbole abd a half, Alice Brosch. Ok. The pronoun 'I' gets a little boring.
• 18.5.18 The Billion Dollar Spy. David E Hoffman. Weirdly, a little dull.
• 14.5.18 A Full Life, Jimmy Carter. Fine. I, I, I, I
• 12.5.18 See Delphi and Die. Lindsay Davis. Good.
• 8.5.18 Today We Die a Little, the inimitable Emil Zâtopek. Richard Askwith. Very good.
• 5.5.18 The Tender Bar, Jr Moehringer. Meh.
• 4.5.18 The Commonwealth. Anne Patchett. Fine.
• 1.5.18 The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler. Audiobook. Apparently quite different from the original.
• 29.4.18. L is for Lawless, Sue Grafton. Not so good
• 22.4.18. Great Northern? Arthur Ransom. How did we never read this. So good. A lot of tension too.
• 19.4.18. Van Life, Rooster Huntington. kinda dull
• 19.4.18 Coot Club, Arthur Ransomed, excellent in every way
• 18.4.18, Scandal takes a holiday, Lindsay Davis. Good.
• 14.4.18. When Breath becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi. very good.
• 12.4.18 K is for killer, Sue Grafton. Good
• 11.4.18. Epic Measures, one doctor, 7 million patients. Jeremy n Smith. should have been dull, was utterly compelling,
• 9.4.18 6 months in Suday, James Maskalyk. Very good indeed.
• 7.4.18 Flat Broke with Two Goats. Jennifer MGaha. good
• 6.4.18, What If, Randal Monroe. Fascinating
• 4.4.18 The Accusers, Lindsay Davis, Good though this one was a little frustrating.
• 2.4.18 J is for Judgement, Sue Grafton, Good.
• 31.3.18 I is for Innocent, Sue Grafton. Good.
• 27.3.18 The Jupiter Myth, Lindsay Davis
• 25.3.18 The Picts and the Martyrs, Arthur Ransome, very good indeed.
• 24.3.18 H is for Homicide, Sue Grafton
• 24.3.18 Pigeon Post, Arthur Ransom. Lovely
• 22.3.18 A Body in the Bathhouse. Lindsey Davis. Good.
• 18.3.18 Apron Strings, Jann Wong. Good
• 17.3.18 Ode to a Banker, Lindsey Davis, good.
• 14.3.18 G is for Gumshoe, Sue Grafton, excellent
• 12.3.18 Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome, Marvelous indeed.
• 11.3.18 F is for Fugitive, Sue Grafton, very good again
• 10.3.18 American Rebel, Inside the world of an undercover Muslim FBI agent. Tamur Elnoury. Intense
• 10.3.18 Swallowdale, Aurthur Ransome. Marvelous
• 6.3.18 E is for Evidence. Sue Grafton, very good indeed.
• 4.3.18 The Grave is a Fine and Pleasant Place, Alan Bradley. Marvelous
• 1.3.18 The Danube, A river guide. Rod Heikell. Good, useful in parts.
• 28.2.18 Case Histories, Kate Atkinson. Better than it seemed it would be. Good in fact
• 27.2.18 Life on the Ground Floor, letters from the edge of the emergency room. James Masalyk. Very good indeed.
• 24.2.18 D is for Deadbeat, Sue Grafton. Very good
• 24.2.18 Slow boat to Europe, Trevor Charritt. Fine, not as informative as I would have liked.
• 21.2.18 One Virgin Too Many, Lindsay Davis, good.
• 15.2.18 Dragon's Time, Anne McCaffery and Todd McCaffery, a little confusing
• 11.2.18 Dragon's Kin, Anne McCaffery and Todd McCaffery. Quite good!
• 8.2.18 Hillbilly Elegy, JD Vance. Well written. Depressing
• 5.2.18 Two for the Lions, Lindsay Davis, fine.
• 29.1.18 The Ship who Sang, Anne McCaffery, Excellent
• 27.1.18 Crystal Line, Anne McCaffery, Excellent.
• 26.1.18 Killashandra, Anne McCaffery, very good.
• 24.1.18 Three Hands in the Fountain, Lindsey Davis, Good.
• 23.1.18 Crystal Singer, Anne McCaffrey. Very good.
• 21.1.18 C is for Corpse, Sue Grafton. Very good.
• 15.1.18 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. Gail Honeyman. Very good indeed.
• 14.1.18 Bad Singer, Tin Falconer, fascinating, but took a long time to read as I had to keep going and listening to songs!!!
• 11.1.18 The Hangman, Louise Penny. Fine, not her best...too moralistic.
• 10.1.18 A Dying Light i Corduba, Lindsay Davis. Good.
• 7.1.18 Edward O Wilson, Letters to a Young Scientist. Good.
• 6.12.18 Born a Crime, Trevor Noah. Good, generally.
• 6.12.18 A Great Reckoning, Louise Penny. Very good.
• 5.12.18 Time to Depart, Lindsey Davis, Good.
• 2.1.18 Waterlog, A swimmer's journey through Britain, Roger Deakin. Marvelous.
• 2.1.18 The Gene, Siddhartha Mukherjee. Fascinating, but not compelling.