Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Nevermore: Nettle & Bone, Kamogawa Food Detectives, Greenlights

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

To save her sister and topple a throne, Marra is offered the tools she needs if she completes three seemingly impossible tasks with the help of a disgraced ex-knight, a reluctant fairy godmother, and an enigmatic gravewitch and her fowl familiar.

 

Okay, but not great.     – MH     4 stars  

 

The Kamogawa Food Detectives  by Hisashi Kashiwai

Down a quiet Kyoto backstreet,“food detectives” Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the proprietors of the Kamogawa Diner, through ingenious investigations, recreate dishes from a person's treasured memories, which hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness.

  It's a good book – very descriptive.     - MS     4 stars


Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction. 

Listened to the audiobook -  absolutely delightful.     -CW

 

Other Books Mentioned

Julie of  the Wolves  by Jean Craighead George


The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future by Franklin Foer

All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit by Stephen M. Cohn

Until  August  by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Short Stories by Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

Home  How-to-Handbook: Electrical by Rick Peters

They Included Me: A Five-Decade Teaching Career by Jerry L.  Jones

The Bone Garden: the Chilling True Story of a Female Serial Killer by William P. Wood

 

New Books

A Quantum Love Story by Mike Chen

The Book of Doors:  a Novel by Gareth Brown

Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America by Barbara Mcquade

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