en-US Mon, 05 May 2025 09:05:41 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review2109687093 Mon, 05 May 2025 09:05:41 -0700 /review/show/2109687093 Dee gave 5 stars to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) by J.K. Rowling
bookshelves: fantasy, fiction
Three books down. Can't believe my daughter doesn't know where the 4th and 5th books are at her house :). Will read them when I get home again.
Still love these stories. ]]> Review2109686299 Mon, 05 May 2025 09:04:39 -0700 /review/show/2109686299 Dee gave 5 stars to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) by J.K. Rowling
bookshelves: fantasy, fiction
Gonna re-read the whole series. The perfect escape after my surgery. ]]> Review2109684896 Mon, 05 May 2025 09:03:42 -0700 /review/show/2109684896 Dee gave 5 stars to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling
Read it again. Loved being back in the Hogwarts area :) ]]> Review7545050366 Mon, 05 May 2025 09:01:06 -0700 /review/show/7545050366 Dee gave 5 stars to Battle Mountain (Joe Pickett, #25) by C.J. Box
bookshelves: fiction
]]> Review7417134014 Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:01:44 -0700 /review/show/7417134014 Dee gave 4 stars to The Waiting (Harry Bosch, #25; Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #39) by Michael Connelly
]]> Review7090467179 Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:54:51 -0800 /review/show/7090467179 Dee gave 4 stars to The Little Liar (Hardcover) by Mitch Albom
bookshelves: culture, fiction, historical
]]> Review7090463620 Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:53:11 -0800 /review/show/7090463620 Dee gave 5 stars to Varina Palladino's Jersey Italian Love Story (Hardcover) by Terri-Lynne DeFino
]]> Review6834055546 Mon, 09 Sep 2024 17:01:16 -0700 /review/show/6834055546 Dee gave 5 stars to The Last Days of Night (Hardcover) by Graham Moore
bookshelves: fiction, historical
I seldom give 5 stars. Many books are really good, but 5 stars is special. This one is a most captivating story of the Light bulb we all have used and are continuing to use. Mr. Moore shares the real names of the big stars in the story: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, Paul Craver, Ann Huntington. The details of the controversy that involved awarding a patent for the light bulb included many others as well, some whose names are drawn from the 18th century, of whom we've never heard. I looked them up, they are real people not just characters in a story.
Moore also shares stories about other scientific breakthroughs that we live with daily. At the end of the book he has an exiting note that shares chapter by chapter , the parts that he 'rearranged' to make the story fit while keeping it basically very accurate.
A novel was a perfect way to tell the story.
How interesting that we have today LED bulbs and Hue bulbs and likely others I personally don't know of. as scientists have imagined new ways to accomplish lighting our world. ]]> Review3201064991 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 10:17:20 -0700 /review/show/3201064991 Dee gave 5 stars to The Night Fire (Renée Ballard, #3; Harry Bosch, #22; Harry Bosch Universe, #33) by Michael Connelly
bookshelves: fiction, mystery
Harry is retired now, though still a reserve officer for San Fernando. He is in close contact with Renee Ballard. This book starts out with one crime to solve ( a murder), moves on to a fire, includes Maddie at college, (three crimes now) and picks up some more stuff. How realistic for a cop, before one thing is solved another gets dumped on your plate. Does Renee ever get any sleep? Rarely. However, Connelly wraps lots of things together, adds lawyer Mickey Haller for legal advice and the crimes are solved. Several people die, but after all, it is Los Angeles!Plus, guess what...we’re set up for the next story. 😉

Re-read. Very enjoyable. Of course I’d forgotten a lot, but the multiple threads of the story, Bosch’s post-op knee surgery details add to the setting of the scene.
Well done, Michael Connelly! ]]> Review6700906343 Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:17:25 -0700 /review/show/6700906343 Dee has read Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3) by John Grisham
bookshelves: fiction, mystery
The Camino series is very different from the lawyer stories in Grisham's other novels. Theses stories have more to do with the writing and publishing industry.
Being a mystery reader, I enjoy the mysteries just as much here as in the other series. After all, I started out as a Nancy Drew reader many years ago.
This story is about a small island, near Camino Island and the history of the slave trade in the 1700's

Great history, good mystery. ]]>