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📗 William Gibson (1984) Neuromancer A seminal cyberpunk novel that defined the genre, following washed-up hacker Case as he's recruited for a high-stakes heist against powerful AIs, aided by the street samurai Molly Millions, in a gritty, high-tech future. It's known for its dense, jargon-filled prose, its vision of cyberspace (the "matrix"), and its influence on modern technology and fiction like The Matrix. The book won major sci-fi awards and launched Gibson's Sprawl trilogy. 👎
📗 Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger (1984) Fire in the Valley – a book that works hard to make it seem like the pioneers in the micro computer field were altruistic young people not interested in money. It's a book of propaganda Pagan. These people all were rule breakers who did not like the current world structure and were using their smarts to change it. They were also very, very focused on money, even though the legend is that they were. They were also not just focused on money, but they were focused on monopolistic powers that not only pushed their products but ruined their friends and competitors products. It's a perfect example of an established industry trying to rewrite its origin story.
📗 Bill Gates (2025) Source Code – Everyone is programmed a little differently, and Bill Gates' unique insight led to business triumphs that are now widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and U.S. education. – the book never relates any information about the story that Bill Gates purchased DOS from somebody and then leased it to IBM, which in effect is the main reason, Microsoft was successful. It's very interesting that Bill Gates left that account out of his book. One would not be wrong to suspect his total embarrassment, and desire to hide the event.
📗 The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government (2011) by Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer – This book is just the authors dreaming of a better utopian future. There are no specific. People like this instead of writing grand changed everything about government books, should spend their time starting a business, doing a specific thing and growing it. Jeff Beso started Amazon very, worked hard and grew into a giant giant thing. We should listen to somebody like him because he has done something. The authors of this book have done nothing so why should we listen to anything they say? 👎
📗 Blue Highways: A Journey into America (1982) William Least Heat Moon – Chronicles William Least Heat-Moon’s journey along America’s back roads after personal loss, capturing forgotten towns, diverse voices, and landscapes. It’s a meditation on travel, resilience, and the hidden heart of America. 👍
📗 Death in the Air: A Novel (2024) Ram Murali – Ro Krishna, an American lawyer, seeks solace at Samsara, a luxury spa in the Indian Himalayas, after a career setback. His retreat turns into a murder mystery as guests—including a politician, a Bollywood star, and a meditation guru—become suspects. Ro is drawn into the investigation, uncovering dark secrets beneath the spa's serene surface.
📗 [Jonathan Kellerman’s The Murderer’s Daughter (2016) – Psychologist Grace Blades, haunted by her parents’ murder-suicide, investigates a patient’s death, uncovering ties to her past. Kellerman’s taut thriller blends suspense and emotional depth, as Grace’s resilience shines through a web of deceit, delivering a gripping, character-driven crime story.
📗 The Last Murder at the End of the World (2024) Stuart Turton – On a remote island shielded from a lethal fog, 122 villagers and three scientists live under strict protection. When one scientist is murdered, the fog-barrier begins failing. With memories wiped and only hours to act, Emory must solve the crime before the world ends. 👍
📗 Alex Hay (2023) The Housekeepers – a historical heist novel set in 1905 London. The story centers on Mrs. King, a former housekeeper at the grandest house on Park Lane, who, after being unjustly dismissed, orchestrates an revenge heist. She assembles a diverse team of women, each with unique skills and motives, including a black-market queen, an aspiring actress, a seamstress, and her predecessor. Their plan unfolds during a lavish costume ball, aiming to strip the mansion of its treasures under the noses of the elite guests.
📗 The Life We Bury (2014) Allen Eskens – College student Joe Talbert stumbles into a mystery that unravels his past and tests his moral compass. Tasked with a biography assignment, Joe interviews Carl Iverson, a dying Vietnam veteran and convicted murderer residing in a nursing home. 👍
📗 Colin F Barnes (2013) The Daedalus Code – When agents Phaedra and Aegeus of New Crete's Intelligent Data Enforcement Agency are tasked to find five missing Artificial Intelligence students, their single lead takes them to a notorious hacker known as 'The Cretian.'
📗 Dorothy Bowers (1938) Postscript to Poison – introduces Inspector Pardoe in a classic country house mystery. When wealthy Ann Venning dies after receiving poison pen letters, suspicion spreads among her resentful relatives. Secrets, rivalries, and deceit intertwine as Pardoe untangles motives in this tightly plotted, atmospheric Golden Age detective novel. 👎 I TTSed this book and as I was listening to it eventually it all just became blah blah blah blah blah. The plot didn't really grab my attention.
📗 The Lost Symbol (2009) Dan Brown – Famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon answers an unexpected summons to deliver a lecture at the U.S. Capitol Building. His plans are interrupted when a disturbing object—artfully encoded with five symbols—is discovered in the building. Langdon recognizes in the find an ancient invitation into a lost world of esoteric, potentially dangerous wisdom. I started this again and realized I had read it maybe a few years ago. I remember it being less than great. 👎
📗 The Heavens May Fall (2017) Allen Eskens – The story follows Detective Max Rupert and attorney Boady Sanden as they investigate the murder of Jennavieve Pruitt, with each character offering a unique, opposing perspective on the case. The novel explores themes of guilt, personal demons, and the strain on their friendship as they navigate the complexities of the legal system.
📗 Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit (2024) by Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Craig Mundie – In his final book, the late Henry Kissinger joins forces with two leading technologists to explore the epochal challenges and opportunities presented by the revolution in Artificial Intelligence. 👎 Considering the two big names involved in this book, there's literally nothing in it that's memorable. The second half of the book wasn't as bad as the first, but I'd still give it a miss if you want my recommendation.
📗 The 7% Solution (1974) Nicholas Meyer – A novel, written as a pastiche of a Sherlock Holmes adventure, and was made into a film of the same name in 1976. 👎 Of interest to only the most dedicated of Holmes fans. I consider myself one, but the book held no interest for me.
📗 Red Rising (2014) Pierce Brown – Red Rising (2014) by Pierce Brown primarily appeals to readers aged 15 to 20, spanning young adult to early adult audiences. Its intense themes of rebellion, violence, and social inequality resonate with teenagers (15–17) who enjoy dystopian narratives with complex characters and high-stakes action, similar to The Hunger Games.
📗 The Man Who Died Twice (2021) Richard Osman – Like The Thursday Murder Club, the plot revolves around a quartet of pensioners living in Kent who solve murders: Elizabeth, Ron, Ibrahim, and Joyce. 👎
📗 The Thursday Murder Club (2020) Richard Osman – A group of pensioners (Elizabeth Best, Ron Ritchie, Joyce Meadowcroft and Ibrahim Arif) set about solving the mystery of the murder of a property developer in the luxurious Cooper's Chase retirement village near the fictitious village of Fairhaven in Kent.
📗 P. D. James (2011) Death Comes to Pemberley – In a marvellous, thrilling re-creation of the world of Pride and Prejudice, P.D. James fuses the work of Jane Austen with her own great talent for writing crime fiction. Libby audiobook
📗 Alex North (2019) The Whisper Man: A Novel – In this dark, suspenseful thriller, Alex North weaves a multi-generational tale of a father and son caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town. Libby audiobook
📗 Bertrand Russell (1946) A History of Western Philosophy – First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy.
📗 Niall Ferguson (2004) Colossus – 🗣 Blah, blah, blah... does this guy actually have a point? 👎 Best just to read the summary from wikipedia and save yourself the wasted time of reading the book.
📗 Marshall McLuhan (1964) Understanding Media – Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we communicate. 👍
📗 Tom Robbins (1980) Still Life With Woodpecker – is the third novel by Tom Robbins, concerning the love affair between an environmentalist princess and an outlaw. The novel encompasses a broad range of topics, from aliens and redheads to consumerism, the building of bombs, romance, royalty, the Moon, and a pack of Camel cigarettes. The novel continuously addresses the question of "how to make love stay" and is sometimes referred to as "a post-modern fairy tale". 👍
📗 Ross Greenwood (2023) Death on Cromer Beach – A brutal double murder on a Norfolk beach horrifies the town of Cromer. The way the victims died is chilling and so Norfolk’s Major Investigation Team task DS Ashley Knight to manage the case.
📗 Tom Robbins (1976) Even Cowgirls Get the Blues – Sissy Hankshaw, the novel's protagonist, is a woman born with enormously large thumbs who considers her mutation a gift. The novel covers various topics, including free love, feminism, drug use, birds, political rebellion, animal rights, body odor, religion, and yams. 👍
📗 Donna Tartt (1992) The Secret History – the first novel by the American author Donna Tartt, published by Alfred A. Knopf in September 1992. Set in New England, the campus novel tells the story of a closely knit group of six classics students at Hampden College, a small, elite liberal arts college located in Vermont based upon Bennington College, where Tartt was a student between 1982 and 1986.
📗 John Kennedy Toole (1980) A Confederacy of Dunces – A Confederacy of Dunces follows the misadventures of protagonist Ignatius J. Reilly, a 30 year old, lazy, overweight, misanthropic, self-styled scholar who lives at home with his mother.
📗 Tom Robbins (1971) Another Roadside Attraction – Centers on John Paul Ziller and Amanda, who run a peculiar zoo. Their lives intersect with a monk, Brother Fiasco, leading to the discovery of Jesus Christ's body. The novel humorously explores themes of religion, freedom, and the absurd nature of life. 👍
📗 Gil Fronsdal (2016) The Buddha Before Buddhism – One of the earliest of all Buddhist texts, the Atthakavagga, or “Book of Eights,” is a remarkable document, not only because it comes from the earliest strain of the literature — before the Buddha, as the title suggests, came to be thought of as a “Buddhist” — but also because its approach to awakening is so simple and free of adherence to any kind of ideology. Instead the Atthakavagga points to a direct and simple approach for attaining peace without requiring the adherence to doctrine. 👍
📗 Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky (2002) by Noam Chomsky – A collection of previously unpublished transcripts of seminars, talks, and question-and-answer sessions conducted from 1989 to 1999. 👍
📗 Leigh Bardugo (2019) Ninth House – The novel follows unlikely Yale University freshman 20-year-old Galaxy "Alex" Stern, a high school drop out and homicide survivor who can see ghosts, called "Grays". Alex is mysteriously offered a full ride to university following her trauma despite her background and lack of qualifications. She attempts to navigate her new life at the Ivy League while tasked by her benefactor with monitoring the eight Houses of the Veil, secret societies that harbor dark occult magic and power, as a member of Lethe, the ninth house. – Gave up on this book at the end of chapter 9. This book seems to be written for 13 year old girls. It's certainly not written for adults. 👎
📗 William Dalrymple (2024) The Golden Road – Discusses the ways in which India's ideas and influences spread throughout and shaped Eurasia. Not as good as I had hoped it would be.
📗 Scott Turow (1987) Presumed Innocent – About a prosecutor charged with the murder of his colleague, Carolyn Polhemus. It is told in a first person point of view by the accused, Rožat "Rusty" Sabich. A motion picture adaptation starring Harrison Ford was released in 1990. Very very slow paced. I've listened to an audio version for over 2 hours, and virtually nothing has happened. Very un-exiting. I gave up and didn't finish the book.
📗 Agatha Christie (1975) Curtain – The novel features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings in their final appearances in Christie's works.
📗 Candida R. Moss (2013) The Myth of Persecution – a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture warriors.
📗 Shelby Van Pelt (2022) Remarkably Bright Creatures – After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.
📗 Robert Caro (1974) The Power Broker – A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. – It is taking forever for me to get through this book about Robert Moses. It is depressing, and draining me. I long for it to be over. I hope I am careful to avoid reading any books like it again. This book could have been one fifth or one quarter it's size if the author was not so long winded.
📗 Dominick Dunne (1997) Another City, Not My Own – Gus Bailey, journalist to high society, knows the sordid secrets of the very rich. Now he turns his penetrating gaze to a courtroom in Los Angeles, witnessing the trial of the century (the O. J. trial) unfold before his startled eyes. - This book is disappointment, and not as good as others by him I've read. Give it a miss.
📗 Dominick Dunne (1990) An Inconvenient Woman – Its plot centers on the affair between married Jules Mendelson, an extremely influential member of Los Angeles high society, and Flo March, a diner waitress and aspiring actress whose life is transformed by the illicit relationship until she finds herself the inconvenient woman of the title.
📗 Dominick Dunne (1986) The Two Mrs Grenvilles – When Navy ensign Billy Grenville, heir to a vast New York fortune, sees showgirl Ann Arden on the dance floor, it is love at first sight. And much to the horror of Alice Grenville–the indomitable family matriarch – he marries her. Ann wants desperately to be accepted by high society and become the well-bred woman of her fantasies. But a gunshot one rainy night propels Ann into a notorious spotlight – as the two Mrs. Grenvilles enter into a conspiracy of silence that will bind them together for as long as they live.
📗 Harlan Coben (1995) Deal Breaker – Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big-time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman whom everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour.
📗 Steven Levy (2011) In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives – Covers the growth of the Google company from its academic project origins at Stanford to the company that is rolling in billions of long-tail advertising dollars, forms the central exchange for information on the internet, having by then already grown to 24,000 employees.
📗 Dominick Dunne (2009) Too Much Money – The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. When he falls for a fake story and implicates a powerful congressman in some rather nasty business on a radio program, Gus becomes embroiled in a slander suit.
📗 Jo Nesbø (2013) Cockroaches – Norway's ambassador to Thailand is found stabbed to death in a brothel on the outskirts of Bangkok. Oslo detective Harry Hole is sent to help the Thai police solve the crime before the scandal hits the newspapers.
📗 Amusing Ourselves To Death (1985) – Postman distinguishes the Orwellian vision of the future, in which totalitarian governments seize individual rights, from that offered by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, where people medicate themselves into bliss, thereby voluntarily sacrificing their rights. Drawing an analogy with the latter scenario, Postman sees television's entertainment value as a present-day "soma", the fictitious pleasure drug in Brave New World, by means of which the citizens' rights are exchanged for consumers' entertainment. 👍
📗 Jo Nesbø (1997) The Bat – The victim is a twenty-three year old Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. Never one to sit on the sidelines, Harry befriends one of the lead detectives, and one of the witnesses, as he is drawn deeper into the case.
📗 Peter Matthiessen (1978) The Snow Leopard – It is an account of his two-month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalaya. 👍
📗 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (1974), by Robert M. Pirsig. If you look on page 247 of this particular edition you will see the text; "there must be a kind of nonintellectual awareness, which he called awareness of quality. You can't be aware that you've seen a tree until after you've seen the tree, and between the instant of vision and instant of awareness there must be a time lag. We sometimes think of that time lag as unimportant but there is no justification for thinking that the time lag is unimportant - none whatsoever."
📗 A. S. Byatt (1990) Possession - total shit.
📗 Alvin Toffler (1970) Future Shock
📗 Andrew Torba (2022) Christian Nationalism - A crazy alt-right rant. See also, our Christianity page.
📗 Brian Dear (2017) The Friendly Orange Glow
📗 Brian Muraresku (2020) The Immortality Key
📗 Bruce Schneier (2023) A Hacker’s Mind
📗 Elle Hardy (2022) Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World – How has a Christian movement, founded at the turn of the twentieth century by the son of freed slaves, become the fastest-growing religion on Earth? Pentecostalism has 600 million followers; by 2050, they'll be one in ten people worldwide. This is the religion of the Holy Spirit, with believers directly experiencing God and His blessings: success for the mind, body, spirit and wallet. 👍
📗 Erik Hoel (2021) The Revelations – Monday, Kierk wakes up. Once a rising star in neuroscience, Kierk Suren is now homeless, broken by his all-consuming quest to find a scientific theory of consciousness. But when he’s offered a spot in a prestigious postdoctoral program, he decides to rejoin society and vows not to self-destruct again. Instead of focusing on his work, however, Kierk becomes obsessed with another project—investigating the sudden and suspicious death of a colleague. As his search for truth brings him closer to Carmen Green, another postdoc, their list of suspects grows, along with the sense that something sinister may be happening all around them.
📗 Erik Hoel (2023) The World Behind The World – From a Forbes 30 Under 30 scientist comes a fascinating exploration into how the brain creates our conscious experiences—potentially revolutionizing neuroscience and the future of technology — transforming the very fabric of our society.
📗 Harry G. Frankfurt (2005) On Bullshit
📗 Jimmy Soni (2022) The Founders – A gripping account of PayPal’s origins and a vivid portrait of the geeks and contrarians who made its meteoric rise possible including Elon Musk, Amy Rowe Klement, Peter Thiel, Julie Anderson, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, and many others whose stories have never been shared.
📗 Jon Gertner (2012) The Idea Factory – From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T - was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the world. From the transistor to the laser, from digital communications to cellular telephony, it's hard to find an aspect of modern life that hasn't been touched by Bell Labs. 👍
📗 Maeve Binchy (1982) Light a Penny Candle
📗 Neil Gaiman (2001) American Gods – Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a stranger offers him a job and Shadow, with nothing to lose, accepts. But a storm is coming. Beneath the placid surface of everyday life, a war is being fought – and the prize is the very soul of America. An inspired combination of mythology, adventure, and illusion, a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It was also made into a tv series in 2017.
📗 Pepper White (1991) Learning to Think (at MIT) – I like the idea of getting a CorningWare glass titration drip apparatus connected to a rod stand that I can place next to and above my Melita drip coffee maker slowly drip by drip instead of sorting of doing it that way by hand in the morning. That way, my cup of coffee would be better, AND I could go pee while the dripping is happening. I know that's kind of crazy, but after reading this book, it doesn't feel as crazy now. 👍
📗 Peter Zeihan (2022) The End of the World is Just the Beginning – a nonfiction book written by Peter Zeihan, a geopolitical strategist who formerly worked for the geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor. 👍
📗 Sue Grafton (1982) "A" Is for Alibi – Started tonight. Recommended by someone in my building. I've had bad luck with mysteries written by women. I had a string of bad luck with some bad women mystery writers, but I'll give it a shot, because I want a friend in the building that can feed me book recommendations. Let's keep hope alive! Later... I gave up about halfway through. Shit plot, shit characters, shit writing.
📗 Andrew Torba (2022) Christian Nationalism - a crazy alt-right rant
📗 Brian Dear (2017) The Friendly Orange Glow
📗 Erik Hoel (2021) The Revelations
📗 Maeve Binchy (1982) Light a Penny Candle
📗 Bruce Schneier (2023) A Hacker’s Mind
📗 Harry G. Frankfurt (2005) On Bullshit
📗 Brian Muraresku (2020) The Immortality Key
📗 A. S. Byatt (1990) Possession - total shit.
📗 Alvin Toffler (1970) Future Shock
📗 Ernest Cline (2011) Ready Player One
📗 Dennis Lehane (1994) A Drink Before the War
📗 Swami Rama (1978) Living with the Himalayan Masters
📗 Peter Robinson (1987) Gallows View
📗 William L. Hamilton (1995) Saints and Psychopaths
📗 Mark Billingham (2001) Sleepyhead
📗 Ian Rankin (1987) Knots and Crosses - didn't suck
📗👎 Shari Lapena (2018) An Unwanted Guest - total shit
📗 Anthony Doerr (2014) All the Light We Cannot See
📗 B.A. Paris (2016) Behind Closed Doors
📗👎 Clare Mackintosh (2017) I See You – By the time I was working my way towards the end of this story. I was thinking... was there anything interesting in this story? Could a good writer have made it actually interesting, or was it destined to be a shit story if anyone wrote it?
📗🤷 Lucy Foley (2021) The Hunting Party – Lots of folks talking about drinking too much, even though they don't drink. And the ladies asking themselves why don't people like me, and why their friends like other friends better than them. And, of course. lots of sex fantasizing. The book seems to be written for insecure 16-18 kids. But... not as badly written as the prior book on this list. Also, both Foley books I've ready use the same non-linear narrative device.
📗👎 Ruth Ware (2016) The Death of Mrs. Westaway – In this story the main character behaves like a 7 year old, while in the story I sense she is over 20. She doesn't seem be able to do simple things like ask for train fare and instead shows up at a train station with no money. Over and over she acts in a child like manor. The reality is the writer is trying to make everything dramatic. She not a very good writer, unable to write believable characters. I'm going to have to figure out how to get Google Bard to stop recommending mysteries with dopey women main characters.
📗🤷 Wendy Walker (2018) The Night Before – both women in this book are annoying, neurotic, filled with self hatred & guilt. The sister, Laura, is the queen of jumping from one wrong conclusion to another. you would think after being wrong so many times she would shut up and calm down. But, not... she jumps from one impulsive action to another all the way to the end of the book, and everyone of her jumps is wrong.
📗 The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda (2017) 👎
📗 Michael Robotham (2018) The Other Wife
📗 Ray Kurzweil (1999) The Age of Spiritual Machines
📗 A.S.A. Harrison (2013) The Silent Wife
📗👎 S.J. Watson (2011) Before I Go to Sleep
📗 A.J. Finn (2018) The Woman in the Window
📗 Liv Constantine (2017) The Last Mrs. Parrish
📗 Donald Fagen (2013) Eminent Hipsters – Fagen presents the "eminent hipsters" who spoke to him as he was growing up in a bland New Jersey suburb in the early 1960s; his years at Bard College, where he first met his musical partner Walter Becker; and the agonies and ecstasies of a recent cross-country tour with Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs.
📗 Ray Kurzweil (1999) The Age of Spiritual Machines – A non-fiction book by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil about artificial intelligence and the future course of humanity. In the book Kurzweil outlines his vision for how technology will progress during the 21st century. 👍
📗 Walter Isaacson (2023) Elon Musk – From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter. 👍
📗 Lucy Foley (2020) The Guest List
📗 Claudia Pineiro (2007) Elena Knows – Finished part 1. Elena is an annoying, angry, unhappy, narcissistic women. It's hard to listen to the story so far. Very slow moving. So far, Elena's daughter was found hung in the church bell tower, and Elena is the only one who does not believe it's a suicide. Aside from that, we learn that Elena is angry, at pretty much everyone and everything, and has isolated herself from everyone in the community. In part 2, we learn Elena's daughter, Rita, is also a anti-social pain in the ass, that makes everyone's life difficult. As I was listening to part 2, I found I was happy Rita was murdered, and started hoping someone might murder the mother. Part 3 ends up being horrible. It turns out this is not a "mystery" as advertised, ie, Christie or Doyle. It's a leftist propaganda piece. It turns out Rita simply killed herself because she didn't want to deal with taking care of her mother as the Alzheimers progresses. This is used and tied in with a incident that gets revealed in flashback in part three in which 20 years ago Rita & Elena had prevented a lady they met on the street from getting an abortion, and that lady ended up having an unhappy life with her husband and child. It's not a mystery story, it's a leftist screed about patriarchal and religious society that the author feels have no business creating a world where folks are discouraged from having abortions. This book will probably win an award from some idiotic leftist group, but, I recommend you give it a miss.
📗 Alex Michaelides (2019) The Silent Patient
📗 Colleen Hoover (2018) Verity
📗 Psychology For Dummies (2013) Adam Cash
📗 Philosophy for dummies (1999) Thomas V Morris
📗 An Introduction to the History of Psychology (2013) Baldwin Ross Hergenhahn & Tracy Henley
📗 The Selfish Gene (1976) Richard Dawkins
📗 The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins
📗 R.F. Kuang (2022) Babel - this book slowly morphed into a super woke, anti-western civilization political rant. It became very hard to read (or in my case, even listen to) Had to give up in Chapter 23.
📗 Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1990) The Flanders Panel
📗 The Maid (2022) by Nita Prose
📗 The Shadow of the Wind (2001) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
📗 The Tunnel (2019) Gayne C. Young
📗 Kiss Me When I'm Dead (2017) Dominic Piper
📗 Jeff Sharlet (2008) The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power – The book investigates the political power of The Family or The Fellowship, a secretive fundamentalist Christian association led by Douglas Coe. 👍