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tvordljGoing to a guitar festival on Saturday. Graham will be in heaven! They have performances of all sorts, lots of vendors, a "museum" or exhibit of old guitars I think. That will be interesting. It's a bit out of the way to get to by bus but I've got it all figured out. These are the drawbacks to not having a car. I don't like to borrow Mom's because we had it last weekend and I don't like to deprive her of her vehicle too often though she doesn't mind. I do, though if we did have it, we could have gone to a 50th birthday pool party (as in the game, not swimming) for one of my many cousins. The location is too far for a bus. Well, let's just say it's a long slog by bus, so unless i find someone from town that's going, we'll have to miss out on it.
29 - Arctic Drift - Clive Cussler
Dirk Pitt adventure, lots of action. A lot of it takes place in the Canadian Arctic as well as in a small town in British Columbia. Also features Dirk Pitt's twin kids but though they're investigating two ends of the same story/mystery, there's no interaction between them at all. Baffling. Does what it says on the tin.
30 - A Place of Greater Safety - Hilary Mantel
The French Revolution from the points of view of Robespierre, Desmoulins and Danton. Similar style to Wolf Hall in that you don't get the events described directly but you glean things from the dialogue of the characters before or after the fact. Long and a bit hard to get through.
31 - The Marriage Game - Alison Weir
Elizabeth I played coy about marrying through most of her life, insistent on staying single to the horror of her council and parliament. Meanwhile, she seems to have had a lifelong affair with the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley. This story speculates on how far physically that went. It's mostly about the two of them and her other schemes with the candidates from other states and countries, leading them on when she had no intention of marrying really.
32 - Walt - Russell Wangersky
Excellent book. Walt works in a grocery store and is a long time collector of the shopping lists and notes people leave behind. It's more than a hobby, however, he wonders about the people, and sometimes follows them to find out more about them. Meanwhile, his wife Mary disappeared some years ago and the police have decided to work on the cold case, refocussing back on Walt. Is Walt a murderer and a stalker? Layers are uncovered little by little, letting you make your own mind up.
33 - The Way the Crow Flies - Ann-Marie McDonald
This was really good, too. First 2/3 from the point of view of an 8 year old girl and her father who is in the air force in the early 60s. The family has just moved to a small air base in Ontario. The children are trying to fit in and the father is getting drawn into aspects of the Cold War. Sometimes hard to read, considering what the child goes through. Later there's a child that is murdered and it has ramifications for years after.
34 - A Certain Age - Beatriz Wiliams
The Jazz Age in New York, a gossip columnist opens the book reporting at a trial. A rich and married middle aged woman is having an affair with a much younger man who then falls for the young fiancee of her brother. The girl's family has a secret which is uncovered and is what the trial is about. The book takes a jump forward part way through just after something big apparently happened and only refers to it in hind sight and fills some of it in, in bits and pieces and it felt like I missed a chapter or two. Weird. Otherwise, the story was pretty good.
35 - The Skeleton Road - Val McDermid
Scottish detective is trying to find out who killed the person whose skeleton was found on top of an old disused building. A team of lawyers working on tracking down war criminals from the Balkan wars in the 90s is looking for a general that they think might be committing vengeance murders. Is the skeleton one of his victims or the general himself? Also we get a potted summary of some of the more brutal aspects of the Balkan wars. Mostly pretty good.
29 - Arctic Drift - Clive Cussler
Dirk Pitt adventure, lots of action. A lot of it takes place in the Canadian Arctic as well as in a small town in British Columbia. Also features Dirk Pitt's twin kids but though they're investigating two ends of the same story/mystery, there's no interaction between them at all. Baffling. Does what it says on the tin.
30 - A Place of Greater Safety - Hilary Mantel
The French Revolution from the points of view of Robespierre, Desmoulins and Danton. Similar style to Wolf Hall in that you don't get the events described directly but you glean things from the dialogue of the characters before or after the fact. Long and a bit hard to get through.
31 - The Marriage Game - Alison Weir
Elizabeth I played coy about marrying through most of her life, insistent on staying single to the horror of her council and parliament. Meanwhile, she seems to have had a lifelong affair with the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley. This story speculates on how far physically that went. It's mostly about the two of them and her other schemes with the candidates from other states and countries, leading them on when she had no intention of marrying really.
32 - Walt - Russell Wangersky
Excellent book. Walt works in a grocery store and is a long time collector of the shopping lists and notes people leave behind. It's more than a hobby, however, he wonders about the people, and sometimes follows them to find out more about them. Meanwhile, his wife Mary disappeared some years ago and the police have decided to work on the cold case, refocussing back on Walt. Is Walt a murderer and a stalker? Layers are uncovered little by little, letting you make your own mind up.
33 - The Way the Crow Flies - Ann-Marie McDonald
This was really good, too. First 2/3 from the point of view of an 8 year old girl and her father who is in the air force in the early 60s. The family has just moved to a small air base in Ontario. The children are trying to fit in and the father is getting drawn into aspects of the Cold War. Sometimes hard to read, considering what the child goes through. Later there's a child that is murdered and it has ramifications for years after.
34 - A Certain Age - Beatriz Wiliams
The Jazz Age in New York, a gossip columnist opens the book reporting at a trial. A rich and married middle aged woman is having an affair with a much younger man who then falls for the young fiancee of her brother. The girl's family has a secret which is uncovered and is what the trial is about. The book takes a jump forward part way through just after something big apparently happened and only refers to it in hind sight and fills some of it in, in bits and pieces and it felt like I missed a chapter or two. Weird. Otherwise, the story was pretty good.
35 - The Skeleton Road - Val McDermid
Scottish detective is trying to find out who killed the person whose skeleton was found on top of an old disused building. A team of lawyers working on tracking down war criminals from the Balkan wars in the 90s is looking for a general that they think might be committing vengeance murders. Is the skeleton one of his victims or the general himself? Also we get a potted summary of some of the more brutal aspects of the Balkan wars. Mostly pretty good.
