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[4AMNTN]

Off topic BUT Mo I’m glad to hear any stories you have to share! I hope as an American I’ll never hear that either. [emoji1317] can’t even imagine it. I had a friend that was a German lady that sewed and she would tell me stories of the concentration camps that were near her home and the raids she was quite embarrassed to speak in public because she thought people would think less of her because she was German that they would associate with her with Hitler I remember thinking that was so sad she was such a talented nice lady.

When I was younger I heard my uncle George who was a POW in France tell stories not to be too blunt it had to do with a helmet and a rat and it has scared me and bothered me to this day.
Such things our men & women went through for our country to have people act the way they do now. [emoji3525]


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[Gismo]

Onto the 16th book in the Murder Club series by James Patterson

[momckee]

Hello YB, We have our good days and then some less good, but we’re doing ok.

[YB]

Good to hear from you, Mo. Hope things are going OK for you & Dave.

Although I wasn't born for World War 2, we have been sorting through some old photos today. Some of them are from the 1930's and ones taken during the war years, some of which are of my Dad when he was in the army in India

[momckee]

I hope everyone had a marvellous festive season and an equally exciting New Year's Eve celebration. Quite quiet at our house, just the three of us but pleasantly so.

I guess at the beginning of a new year, also a new decade, there might be the tendency to feel a bit nostalgic for times gone by. I’m reading a book set in 1940’s Liverpool, England just after WWII and the landlady of a pub near the docks is trying to get the customers to go home as she wants to listen to Valentine Dyall in the BBC program “The Man In Black on the wireless. Gosh, did that ever take me back, Mum and I used to listen to that each week, the program was popular and must have been on the radio for quite a while. Felt a bit of a tug at my heart, a bit of my childhood.

The actual name of the BBC program was Appointment with Fear and Mum and I got our weekly supply of tingly excitement, sort of a horror type drama. It continued into the 1950's I think and was very popular.

In the same book there was reference to the program ITMA, It's That Man Again, featuring Tommy Handley. Us Brits were really reliant on the wireless, even me as a youngster was always keeping asking questions about the war but my Uncle George used the scare me as he would in a quiet voice say "Hitler's got a new secret weapon" and, of course, he scared me good. Long time ago!

Hope as a Canadian I never have to experience the sound of guns or the sound of an air raid siren and I wish the same for each and everybody in the whole world although many people are experiencing bad times of violence now. Wishing everyone a good and peaceful 2020 and I also hope there is some movement on the climate change question.

[4AMNTN]

Nice list!
I read a good book last Fall - The Deserter ... a new character to me. An Army investigator - This from the guy that wrote The General's Daughter - which I loved! Nelson DeMille.
And 2 books by James Patterson : about an F.B.I. agent Emmy Dockery. Invisible, Unsolved.

[YB]

Linda Coles - Scream Blue Murder. New author to me - good
Susan Hill - The Benefit of Hindsight. Latest in Simon Serrailler series
Ann Cleeves - The Long Call. This lady writes the Vera and Shetland series which are also shown on UK TV. This is a new set of characters for her, set in the South West of England. Not as good as the others but may inprove when i get to know the characters better
Quintin Jardine - The Bad Fire. New one in the Bob Skinner series. This guy can kick the bad guys asses just as well as Reacher does!
Angela Marsons - Evil Games. I have read a few previously by this author. They are good
Lee Chils - Blue Moon. See separate topic above

[4AMNTN]

Sounds nice. My sister introduced me to a female Homicide Lt. Taylor Jackson character based out of Nashville and it is funny to KNOW exactly where they are throughout the book. (J.T. Ellison) I've gone on to read the Medical Examiner series spin off too.
Good to see you post Mo!

[momckee]

Reading books by Margaret Thornton who taught in Blackpool, England, my hometown so I’m enjoying the nostalgia n reading books with the plots centred around locations I’m familiar with.

[4AMNTN]

Gis - your Blue Moon thoughts?


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[Gismo]

Away to start on Blue Moon, no spoiler

[4AMNTN]

About to start Genesis.

[4AMNTN]

I do that a lot too Mo. Tuesday a Robin Cook book comes out Genesis ... sounds to be about Montgomery of Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery ... but just her and another Lab lady. Finished Evanovich's 26 & it was good, funny.... still on George up to June 21 1776!!!

[momckee]

Mostly re-reading books on my Kindle.

[4AMNTN]

Tomorrow the 26th Janet Evanovich comes out. And YEEESSSSS I am still reading The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer. It's VERY good, lots of info - puts you right in there - I can SEE all this unfolding in my mind & that's awesome! But....