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    • 28 September 2022 | Wednesday · 5:37 PM

    The Botanist: Washington Poe Book #5

    The Botanist | M.W. Craven | Book Review

    So, yet another thriller. And yet another thriller series. The Botanist is the 5th in the DS Washington Poe series of books. But it is my first. There were quite a few deterrents as I picked this book up. First, with so many thrillers one after another, I wasn’t quite sure I wanted to read another. And second, at 500 odd pages, this was threatening to test my patience for sure! But whoa! Am I not glad I read this. I would have missed such an enjoyable & engaging read.

    The plot in a nutshell – some well known people of the city are mysteriously dying, each receiving a weird poem & a dried flower as a warning (or threat). And despite the most stringent of security measures in place, the security forces are failing to save them. So, this basically forms the case that DS Poe and his team …

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    13 September 2022 | Tuesday · 5:24 PM

    Dream Town: Aloysius Archer (Book 3)

    Dream Town | David Baldacci | Aloysius Archer

    The 3rd book in the Aloysius Archer Series, Dream Town carries forward the adventurous & lethally dangerous journey of PI Archer as he continues to strive towards making this world a better place, notwithstanding the threats to his own life, miraculously escaping death on more than one occasion.

    The story picks up from where The Gambling Man ended, except that 3 years have passed since. And Archer is now on his way to LA to meet his friend and aspiring actress from the previous book – Liberty Callahan. And as he does so, he finds himself unwittingly a part of a complex and dangerous ploy with it’s roots running deep. The story thus makes it’s transition from the dark undertone of Bay Town from the previous book to a bright & glittering LA – the city of dreams.

    It was revelling to see the old characters return! The …

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    2 September 2022 | Friday · 4:38 PM

    Carrie Soto Is Back (Taylor Jenkins Reid) 🥇🔰

    Carrie Soto Is Back | Book Review

    Winner:
    Book Of The Year 2022;
    Best Character 2022 (Carrie Soto);
    All Time Best Reads

    What’s the feeling like when someone meets your expectations and betters them? Carrie Soto Is Back makes the hitherto great books I read this year seem outrageously dwarfed. For, this is the real thing. This is exemplary writing at it’s lethal best. This is what a Classic is all about. And TJR, you are a legend and no less. For, barely 10% into the book and it is hard to believe that Carrie Soto is not real. That this is fiction. What. A. Book. !!

    The release of this book coincided with the start of the US Open 2022. And of course it now seems intentional as this is central to the theme of this amazing book. Taylor Jenkins Reid has hinted in her interviews of this book being modelled around Serena Williams …

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    29 August 2022 | Monday · 3:41 PM

    The Last Party: Introducing DC Ffion Morgan

    The Last Party | Clare Mackintosh | Book Review

    A new detective series from the much acclaimed Clare Mackintosh. A new line of novels always manages to garner interest for the sheer excitement and expectation from a new set of recurring characters. Likewise, The Last Party has already succeeded in creating a buzz about itself, introducing the promising character of DC Ffion Morgan.

    The book starts with an enchanting setting at the Welsh-English border, at the center of which is Llyn Drych – the serpent shaped mirror lake – the focal point of all the happenings that follow. The discovery of a body in this lake on New Year’s Day sets things rolling. The search for the murderer, many sub plots and intertwined stories leading to it. With it’s mystic setting accentuated by a lonely, witchy cottage in the woods, a boathouse, some mysterious lodge owners on the far end – it makes for an intriguing whodunnit…

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    20 August 2022 | Saturday · 4:59 PM

    The 6:20 Man: Trademark Baldacci

    The 6:20 Man | David Baldacci

    One of my preferred authors – David Baldacci. There is something very likable about his books that wants me to read. Maybe not always perfect, yet something I always keenly await and look forward to. I had read A Gambling Man last year. Being based in the old fashioned 1940s, I didn’t quite enjoy the setting. The 6:20 Man reverses just that with a fresh, contemporary setting in a bright, scorching New York summer. So, that was the first ‘yes’ for me.

    The story bases around Travis Devine, a former army recruit – having left under mysterious circumstances (which later get revealed). Seeking a redemption of sorts, he takes up a job he absolutely loathes at Cowl and Comely. He soon finds himself dragged into a series of murders, beginning with a colleague he had had a relationship with. And it sets the ball rolling for a fast paced, …

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    12 August 2022 | Friday · 3:43 PM

    Charles Babbage – The Life and Legacy of the Father of Modern Computers

    Charles Babbage | The Father Of Modern Computers

    Published: 2020

    Living in the Digital Age that we are, it is so strange and ironical that so little has been said or written about the people who laid the seeds of it. In particular, the man we know as The Father Of Modern Computers – Charles Babbage.

    I recall, we were first introduced to computers and programming back in the late 80s. The IBM PCs that booted with floppy disks. And you couldn’t take your shoes into the computer room! Backed with six air conditioners, the room used to be a haven for the curious kids. They were the times of BASIC and dBase and the beginning of an ever lasting love for computers and programming. And amidst this, there used to be a small paragraph in our text on The Father Of Modern Computers. And, it stayed with me ever since.

    This book, Charles Babbage – The …

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