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“Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!”

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #4) by Arthur Conan Doyle

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So I’ve been reading all the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels since January now, and I’ve been having a great time with the audiobooks narrated by Stephen Fry (especially since my version also has these little personal essays written by Fry at the beginning of each novel or collection). But I think I might have done myself a little disservice by listening to this one in audio. I’ve read it before, when I was in grade school I think, but the only part I remembered was SPOILERS when they discover the dog had been painted in phosphorous (except my memory […]

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8/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:105 |

The audiobooks really do make this series better.

Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3) by Robert Galbraith

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This review is mostly going to be me responding to some of my own thoughts from my first review, with some extras thrown in; for example, how I was considering raising this to five stars because I loved Robert Glenister’s narration so much. I love the dead tree versions of this book, but the audio adds another level. Highly recommend if you are so inclined. (I’m leaving my rating at 4.5, rounding down, for now, because of the ending. See below.) Spoilery discussion of several plot points below. So firstly, having now re-read this, I can state with approximately 99% […]

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6/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:72 |

“It’s our secrets that make us sick.”

The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #3) by Louise Penny

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This book bored and frustrated me for the first third, and then something turned and the plot and interesting character stuff got going, and my annoyances were subsumed under actual interest for the characters and story. Subsumed is a fun word to use by the way. Do they still sell Word of the Day toilet paper? I heard about that one time but never investigated further. So when I say that I was frustrated, I mean that I seriously contemplated not continuing with the series. It seemed to me that instead of doing new things with her series, and evolving […]

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5/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:57 |

“I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, ‘I might be wrong.”

A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2) by Louise Penny

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I still really like this series, but I was a bit more lukewarm over this book than I wanted to be. Let’s split it up into good and not-so-good. First, good: The mystery in this one was interesting. CC de Poitiers is a wannabe lifestyle guru who has recently moved to Three Pines with her husband and child, whom she disliked and ignored. Her relationship with Crie, her overweight fourteen year old daughter, is downright emotionally abusive. She is seen as cruel by everybody who knows her, including the man she’s having an affair with. Nobody likes her, and nobody […]

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3/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:34 |

Liked it even more this time!

The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2) by Robert Galbraith

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Okay, so now having finished my first re-read of this book, I am so tempted to up the rating to five stars. A large portion of that desire comes from listening to the audio this time around. There’s something really satisfying about Robert Glenister’s voice narrating this story; it most definitely increased my enjoyment. Another part is that this just feels like the ideal murder mystery to me right now. It was exactly what I was craving, plus some. I love all the clues and red herrings (and spotting them all this time was so much fun now that I […]

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3/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:27 |

Miss Marple is in this one from the beginning!

They Do it With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6) by Agatha Christie

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I think I’ve come to the conclusion that I prefer Poirot books to Marple ones, but this one started off really well! One of the reasons I usually like Poirot better is that he’s usually more involved in the narrative. Miss Marple usually sidles in at the last moment and mostly does her work off page. But here, she was present from page one. Unfortunately, I just lost my motivation about halfway through as the mystery itself didn’t really hold my attention. Miss Marple’s childhood friend Ruth Van Rydock has recently visited her sister Carrie Louise at her Victorian estate, […]

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9/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:76 |

Second time through, the characters make this just as good.

The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) by Robert Galbraith

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The thing about entirely plot-based books is that they don’t usually make for good re-reads, and I am a TOTAL book re-reader. “Do I want to re-read this someday?” is genuinely a question I ask before I will elevate a book to the four star level. If the answer is no, then there better be some damn fine extenuating circumstances as to why not (for instance a book that’s really good, but so traumatizing and upsetting that you can’t read it more than once). Mysteries sometimes can’t be re-read, because you already know what happened (unless you forgot, in which case, congratulations, […]

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8/22/2017 's CBR9 Review No:56 |

This is book eight; time to stop wanting this series to be something it’s not.

Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8) by Alan Bradley

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This was back on form after the disappointment of the last one. This series still isn’t perfect for me, but I find it really comforting and enjoyable anyway. I think I just need to let this series be itself and stop wanting it to be what it’s not. The mysteries and plot twists are always going to be predictable. Flavia is always going to pursue random avenues of inquiry that somehow magically lead her to answers. There is probably always going to be a misbalance between the mystery plot and the character plot. And Bradley’s sense of narrative is always going to be […]

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7/20/2017 's CBR9 Review No:47 |


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