2019: #2 – The Little Sleep (Paul Tremblay)

You figure out very quickly upon starting this book that what we have here is an unreliable narrator. So if you like unreliable narrators, continue on. In this book, you really can’t trust what you’re reading. Mark Genevich has narcolepsy, and he has it bad. He hallucinates, he’s prone to falling asleep unexpectedly, and occasionally, he’s even paralyzed but alert. Yet somehow he’s able to

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2018: #26 – A Drink Before the War (Dennis Lehane)

I’ve read a couple of Lehane’s books already, including a later book in this series, and so far I’ve liked everything I’ve read. This series has a nice noir feel to it, especially with the couple of private detectives having their office in the bell tower of a church. I like Kenzie and Gennaro’s relationship, complicated as it may be. I also like Kenzie’s gutsiness.

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2006: #40 – All the Flowers are Dying (Lawrence Block)

Book #40 was All the Flowers are Dying , the 16th(!) book in Lawrence Block’s Matthew Scudder series. Yet another instance of me jumping into a series at some indeterminable point. I’ll likely be putting the rest of this series on my list. This was enjoyable, though sometimes I got tired of reading in the killer’s point of view. Book count: 40 Pages in book:

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