Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Nevermore Tibetan Peach Pie, No Plan B, Killers of a Certain Age

 


Reported by Rita

Tibetan Peach Pie: a True Account of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins

Inviting readers into his private world, an internationally best-selling author and American icon shares stories from his unconventional life, from his Appalachian childhood to his adventures around the world, that is as unlikely, magical and bizarre as those of his quixotic characters.

 Robbins was a fantastic writer and he lived an interesting life.  – MH   5 stars

 

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

Sent on an all-expense paid vacation to mark their retirement, four assassins discover they've been marked for death, forcing them to turn against their own organization and teach them what it really means to be a woman—and a killer—of a certain age.

Fun and likable.      – WJ      5 stars      



 No Plan B: a Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child

Witnessing a woman pushed to her death in front of a bus, Jack Reacher, following the killer on foot, is unaware that this is part of a secret conspiracy with many moving parts with no room for error and any threats will be permanently removed, including Reacher.

An excellent book, full of intrigue and mayhem.       – FE       5 stars

 

Other Books Mentioned

Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson

The Medicine Woman of Galveston by Amanda Skenandore

Anne of Green Gables  adapted by Katherine Woodfine

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

Stupid American History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions by Leland Gregory

Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office by Shiya Ribowsky

Living in the Light: Yoga for Self-Realization by Deepak Chopra

Trader of Secrets by Steve Martini

Saints and Villains: a Novel by Denise  Giardina

Blameless by Gail Carriger

The Screwtape Letters: with, Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C. S. Lewis

A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage: a Novel by Asia Mackay

New Books

The Life of Herod the Great: a Novel by Zora Neale Hurston

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Go As a River by Shelley Read

We Do Not Part: a Novel by Kang Han

The Healing Season of Pottery by Yeon Somin

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