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Book 16 was A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Fifth — The Austere Academy. Mr. Snicket switched things up a little bit here. Unlike the first 4 books, this book didn’t end with Count Olaf quickly escaping and the Baudelaires just left to move on to a new home. Nope, this book ends with a kidnapping! There also was the introduction of a couple
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Book #15 was the 6th book in Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone/Alphabet series, F is for Fugitive. I didn’t think this book was as good as the previous ones. There seemed to be a lot of emphasis on the setting, it was really slow going (I think I was over halfway through before there was a real clue), and the time line got confusing somewhere in
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Book #14 was the incredible Rosemary’s Baby, by Ira Levin. Like most people, I at least knew the basic premise behind Rosemary’s Baby, but I had never read the book or even seen the movie. “Disquieting” is perhaps the perfect word to describe this book. There is just this subtle thread of dread throughout the entire story that is amazing. I highly, highly recommend it.
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I finished book #13 over lunch. It was Mind Prey, the 7th book in John Sandford’s Prey/Lucas Davenport series. I’ve read several of these books, and really enjoy them. Davenport is an interesting character. His relations with women are always amusing. Page count: 3,716/15,000
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