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What I've been reading
May. 13th, 2016 11:23 am"Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex" by Mary Roach, as an audiobook. I love the sense of humor and curiosity Roach brings to every subject she writes about. As with other areas she has written about, she doesn't try to be encyclopedic about covering the topic. She divides the book up into chapters that are really almost stand-alone essays on particular sub topics. She could have gone into more detail about the history of sex research but she tends to focus most heavily on more recent findings and studies, which was fine by me. I found this book highly enjoyable, and I like the reader they used for both this book and "Packing for Mars" quite a bit. Highly recommended!
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"The Likeness" by Tana French. I'd read her first novel, "In the Woods" and loved it. I think it's a clever idea that she takes a secondary character from the first novel and makes her the main character in the second. From what I've read, she continues in this way, with a minor character from "The Likeness" becoming the main character in the third novel, and so on. In this novel, detective Cassie Maddox is called in on a special homicide case - Dublin's Murder Squad has found a dead woman who looks just like Cassie, and she is living under a pseudonym, Lexie Madison, that Cassie once used on an undercover case. The detectives decide to lie to the dead woman's housemates and friends and say she "nearly" died but recovered and send Cassie in undercover to find out who killed Lexie. The storyline has built-in tension, and French does a fine job with it. Her prose is beautiful and character development is really well done. I love her writing and hope I like the next one in the series too!
My full comments on both books here.
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"The Likeness" by Tana French. I'd read her first novel, "In the Woods" and loved it. I think it's a clever idea that she takes a secondary character from the first novel and makes her the main character in the second. From what I've read, she continues in this way, with a minor character from "The Likeness" becoming the main character in the third novel, and so on. In this novel, detective Cassie Maddox is called in on a special homicide case - Dublin's Murder Squad has found a dead woman who looks just like Cassie, and she is living under a pseudonym, Lexie Madison, that Cassie once used on an undercover case. The detectives decide to lie to the dead woman's housemates and friends and say she "nearly" died but recovered and send Cassie in undercover to find out who killed Lexie. The storyline has built-in tension, and French does a fine job with it. Her prose is beautiful and character development is really well done. I love her writing and hope I like the next one in the series too!
My full comments on both books here.
