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[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.

[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.

[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]

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

[Gismo]

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

[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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[4AMNTN]

I have the last 3 Murder Club books on Kindle but haven’t read yet. This would’ve been a good series to just sit and read one after the other — I need to get back to my Kindle- been listening to Audiobooks of Janet Evanovich Plum series. Oh me 13 & 15 are too funny!


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[4AMNTN]

Anyone read Dean Koontz? I've seen his books for years - I think I'll start the Odd Thomas series??? I thought of this last fall - but just didn't. I need someone new to read.

[YB]

Haven't read a Koontz book for years, probably 20 or more. I thought they were OK, but no better than OK. That said they are probably very different now

[4AMNTN]

Well ok, thanks. I just figured out that Odd Thomas is YOUNG.... & sees dead people. So... ummmm....

[YB]

I've not been reading as much recently, don't know why, no particular reason. The ones I have read are

Rick Mofina - The Dying Hour. I have read quite a few by this author and they rarely disappoint. This one was good
Pete Brassett - Rancour. A police procedural set in Scotland. Good
Deborah Crombie- A Bitter Feast. Latest in the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma Collins series. It's been quite a wait for this one but worth the wait
R C Bridgestock - Payback. Set local to me although this is the start of a new series
Rennie Airth - Cold Kill. The previous books I have read by this author have all featured a detective called John Madden. The are set back in time from the 1920's to the 50's. This one however is in modern times and is a completely new set of characters

[4AMNTN]

sounds good YB. -- I'll look into the Crombie book/series.

[momckee]

Reading many of the ‘women’s’ historical fiction, some of it seems like soft porn disguised as romance! ��. But some of it is not too bad, certainly gives some insight into women’s lot in life before women got their independence.

[4AMNTN]

Funny Mo. hope u & yours are well [emoji1309] nice to see u post.


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[YB]

Hi Fours, hows things with you healthwise? And you also Mo. In fact the question could be asked of you all on here