The City and the City is mainly a murder mystery, but is also a fantasy or sci fi story. Most readers would edge toward fantasy, but quantum physics ideas could make this sci fi. Two cities are both adjacent and overlapping in space and time. Beszel and Ul Qoma are cities in the southeastern part of Europe and the citizens … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →We sometimes stay on one of the Gulf Islands and hike all of the trails over a few days. On a holiday on Galiano Island we hiked the trails to Mt. Galiano, the highest point on the island. The trails are on the southwest corner of the long island. We hiked through the cedar – hemlock forest to the top … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →On a windy June day I hiked a loop route from Rose Hill Park. I hiked on single tracks west toward Juniper, then over ridges back to Rose Hill Road, then up Joyce Gulch to find an old homestead. The open hills were green and inviting. From the ridge overlooking the Lower Rose Area, there are wide-open views down to … Continue reading →
On a rainy, grey day I looked for a shorter hike and decided to do the Doc Findlay Loop. While hiking, I wanted to experiment with various video and photo options with the DJI Pocket 2 camera. In addition, I tried to get some close ups with a GoPro Hero 10 with a macro lens. Grey, flat light and some … Continue reading →
By mid-June the early flowers have passed and mid-season flowers are emerging. In the vegetable and herb garden a a few flowers show on arugula, radishes, mustard greens, chives, thyme, chamomile, and others. The radishes will soon become woody, the spinach and arugula will bolt and produce seeds, thyme and chamomile will continue to flower all summer, tomatoes will set … Continue reading →
Magpie Murders is a whodunit story, but it has a mystery inside a mystery structure, all told in a classic Agatha Christie story mode. There are a number of introduced characters, any of which could be the suspects. The plot is expertly developed and there are red-herrings, twists, surprises, and clever detection work by two different investigators. It is an … Continue reading →
We go out to our garden every day to do some maintenance, but also to enjoy flowering shrubs, flowering perennials, fruit trees, and developing vegetables. If the light is right and the there is not much wind, the camera captures a few highlights. Various flowering shrubs were either just finished their blooming period, just starting, or were in the middle … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →Michael Connelly’s latest book is the 23rd book in the Bosch Series and the 4th book in the Renee Ballard series and it is one of his best detective stories. This is one of his best stories and is highly recommended Over the years the characters have evolved and, at the same time, so has Connelly’s writing. The stories are … Continue reading →
I found this book difficult to read. The style kept throwing me off the story. The author chose to use sentence fragments, juxtaposing words of phrases together, and making sense of them wasn’t always easy. There were frequent run-on sentences and sentence fragments which broke the reading rhythm. Some sections were opaque and I found myself wondering why I was … Continue reading →
P.D. James’ novels are part of a classic British tradition crime authors. The Murder Room was published in 2003 when she was in her 80’s. It is her 12th book in the Inspector Dalgleish series and is set in London, specifically at the Dupayne Museum, a Gothic mansion dedicated to the Interwar Years. It was built by the now-deceased father … Continue reading →
Duma Key takes the reader into a deep dive into the protagonist Edgar Freemantle’s life of pain and partial recovery. Stephen King himself was critically injured and spent part of his recovery time on a nearby key. Some of the themes and motifs of the books Misery and IT are wound into a story of a man trying to … Continue reading →
Station Eleven is a science fiction novel about a period time when a deadly pandemic kills most of the humans on the planet and the years afterward as the survivors come to grips with a new world. This is not a new plot line, but the author chooses a different path from the classics of this sub-genre like The Stand, … Continue reading →
