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PoindexterOglethorpe

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26. Two books right now.
Mon Jan 2, 2023, 11:10 PM
Jan 2023
Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline. It's the first of her books I've ever read, and I'll be reading a lot more. It's a basic mystery sort of story where four people keep a terrible secret for 20 years, and then things go very awry.

Also The Fourth Wall by Walter Jon Williams. Sean Makin is a has-been child actor, now in a new project that he hopes will revive his career. I feel like I am completely inside Hollywood in this book. I bought this book several years ago, and pulled it off my shelf a couple of weeks ago to finally read it. It's very different from what I was expecting, and I love it so far.

Full disclosure: I happen to be fairly good friends with Walter and spent Thanksgiving with him and his wife Kathy, along with another s-f writer who lives here in Santa Fe. I hang out at several different science fiction cons and have gotten to know lots of writers, which makes reading their stuff even more interesting that it was when I'd never met any of them.

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Thanks for weighing in on this one hermetic Jan 2023 #5
It did start off a bit slow, Mme. Defarge Jan 2023 #17
Oh my! PennyC Jan 2023 #25
Just started Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen Basic LA Jan 2023 #2
Indeed it does hermetic Jan 2023 #3
LOL so is "Hoot" also by Hiaason yellowdogintexas Jan 2023 #21
this is a good one.... bahboo Jan 2023 #6
One of my favs! SheltieLover Jan 2023 #13
Ooooooh Mme. Defarge Jan 2023 #18
OMG! He GOES THERE!!! Mme. Defarge Jan 2023 #28
I'm struggling with "The Late Show" by Michael Connelly. CrispyQ Jan 2023 #4
Thanks hermetic Jan 2023 #8
Love the Lincoln Lawyer Mme. Defarge Jan 2023 #19
Foregone by Russell Banks. Kath2 Jan 2023 #7
That sounds really good hermetic Jan 2023 #9
The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson farmbo Jan 2023 #10
Oh wow hermetic Jan 2023 #11
"It Takes a Witch," by Heather Blake SheltieLover Jan 2023 #12
Reading: Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks Paper Roses Jan 2023 #14
Be interested in your take on the Kate Ellis The King of Prussia Jan 2023 #15
I really like Wesley Peterson hermetic Jan 2023 #16
The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin LuvLoogie Jan 2023 #20
I finished reading Billie Letts' book, Shoot the Moon, but can't say that I'd recommend japple Jan 2023 #22
still working on the 3 from last week yellowdogintexas Jan 2023 #23
"The Winner" by David Baldacci Jeebo Jan 2023 #24
Two books right now. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2023 #26
Those sound great hermetic Jan 2023 #27
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