What are you reading now?
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@George-K said in What are you reading now?:
The WSJ did an interview with Isaacson. Nothing really new if you've read the book other than some personal insights that didn't make it into print.
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"Spook Street" was a fun read - significantly different from Season 4 of Slow Horses.
As long as I'm on a Herron kick...book 5
The more of Herron I read, the more I appreciate his style. Gary Oldman is perfect...
“It’s been brought to my attention that you arsewipes are not happy bunnies.’
This was Jackson Lamb. The arsewipes were his team.
‘So I’ve convened this meeting so you can air your grievances.’
‘Well—’ River began.
‘Sorry, did I say “you”? I meant me.’
They were in Lamb’s office, which had the advantage, for Lamb, that he didn’t have to move anywhere, and the disadvantage, for everyone else, that it was Lamb’s office. Lamb smoked in his office, and drank, and ate, and there were those who suspected that if he kept a bucket there, he’d never leave. Not that its attractions were obvious. On the other hand, bears’ caves weren’t famously well appointed either, and bears seemed to like them fine.
‘Did one of you jokers put a whoopee cushion on my chair, by the way? No? Well in that case I’ve just farted.’ Lamb leaned back and beamed proudly. ‘Okay, you’re all uptight because there’s a national emergency, and somewhere at the back of your tiny little minds you’re remembering you joined the security services. That rings bells, yes? The bright shiny building at Regent’s Park?’
'Jackson,’ Catherine said.
‘It gives me no pleasure to have to“have to say this, but keep your fucking mouth shut while I’m talking, Standish. It’s only polite.’
‘Always happy to have you mind my manners, but do we really need to hear the lecture?’
‘Oh, I think it’ll be good for morale, “don’t you? Besides, the new boy can’t have heard it more than once. I’d hate him to feel he was missing out. What was your name again?’
‘Coe,’ said J. K. Coe, who’d been there a year.
‘Coe. You’re the one gets panic attacks, right? Behind you! Just kidding.’
Catherine put her head in her hands.”
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Interesting read. The biography essentially covers both her life and the adult portion of David French's life. David asked to marry her 3 weeks after meeting her. Reading of Nancy's childhood, one is amazed of her achievements. AND having read that portion of the book, one gains little insight into what were the influences and indviduals responsible for her developing her writing skills. I'm just getting up to the portion of the book having to do with the 2016 election. What's fun to read about is Nancy's referencing that if someone showed up at her relatives seeking dirt, Nancy shared that it was very possible those indviduals might end up dead. They were mountain people.
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The protagonist from "Bad Monkey", Andrew Yancy, is caught up in a scam involving a woman who fakes rear-end car crashes while shaving her nether regions. A new builder wants to put up a mansion next to Yancy's beach house. More restaurant inspections and more cockroaches.
Yeah, typical Hiaasen stuff with the craziest characters ever.
Fun, but I can only take so much in a while.
ETA: Oh, yeah - there's a subplot with a "Duck Dynasty" takeoff, "Bayou Brothers."
