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2024
My Year in Books
72,211
pages read
James
221
books read
James
The Haze by James W. Hall
Shortest Book
55
pages
Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie
Longest Book
1,279
pages
Average book length in 2024
326
pages
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Most Shelved
1,020,839
people also shelved
The Red Priest by James Fritz
Least Shelved
36
people also shelved
James ’s average rating for 2024
4.5
4.5
From the Ashes by Damien Boyd
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.61 average
Murder in the Cotswolds by A.B. Guthrie Jr.

James ’s first review of the year

liked it
this is a very odd mystery. Ignoring the odd premise - Montana Sherriff invited to participate in murder investigation in the UK: A UK cop would suffer amputation before giving such an invitation - the writing is just... boring? The plotting and investigation are weak. And somehow the prose just drags. I could never get through more than about three pages without having to pick up a scrabble puzzle or something.

Not buying any more of this series ...more
JAMES ’S 2024 BOOKS
Murder in the Cotswolds by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
P.G. Wodehouse in His Own Words by Barry Day
Jeeves and the Tie That Binds by P.G. Wodehouse
it was amazing
Broken Ground by Val McDermid
The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean
Lingo by Gaston Dorren
Black Hearts by Doug Johnstone
Lando by Louis L'Amour
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen by P.G. Wodehouse
Agent Storm by Morten Storm
it was amazing
Reconstruction by Mick Herron
Beton Rouge by Simone Buchholz
Grizzly Years by Doug Peacock
Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour
The Man Called Noon by Louis L'Amour
The Far East Trilogy by Stephen Becker
Mexico Street by Simone Buchholz
Murder on the Menu by Fiona Leitch
The Broken Road by Patrick Leigh Fermor
it was amazing
Hammer to Fall by John Lawton
Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Goodbye Vietnam by William Broyles Jr.
Crack Down & Clean Break by Val McDermid
A Lily of the Field by John Lawton
Along the Road by Aldous Huxley
Bluffing Mr. Churchill by John Lawton
The Mountain Valley War by Louis L'Amour
The New Wild by Fred Pearce
it was amazing
The Seeker by S.G. MacLean
Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder
Standing by the Wall by Mick Herron
I Am the Only Running Footman by Martha Grimes
The Dirty Duck by Martha Grimes
The Proving Trail by Louis L'Amour
Amok by Barry Eisler
The Five Bells and Bladebone by Martha Grimes
it was amazing
The Old Silent by Martha Grimes
North to the Rails by Louis L'Amour
The Quick and the Dead by Louis L'Amour
Insidious Intent by Val McDermid
This Is the Way by Gavin Corbett
Over on the Dry Side by Louis L'Amour
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Get Real by Donald E. Westlake
Radigan by Louis L'Amour
it was amazing
Pomodoro! by David Gentilcore
Passin' Through by Louis L'Amour
The Haze by James W. Hall
Out of Bounds by Val McDermid
Monsieur Pamplemousse Aloft by Michael Bond
Rivers West by Louis L'Amour
Hamas Contained by Tareq Baconi
Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
The Fugitive Pigeon by Donald E. Westlake
Vikings in America by Graeme Davis
The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith
The Viking by Marti Talbott
A Rift in the Earth by James Reston Jr.
it was amazing
Silver Canyon by Louis L'Amour
Agent Garbo by Stephan Talty
A Measure of Trouble by Zach Abrams
The Red Priest by James Fritz
Solus by Peter Bowen
Sixty Blades of Grass by Elizabeth Millane
PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon
it was amazing
A Young Palestinian's Diary, 1941–1945 by Kimberly Katz
From the Ashes by Damien Boyd
Bluff by Jane Stanton Hitchcock
El Norte by Carrie Gibson
The Elements We Live By by Anja Røyne
A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
The shadow riders by Louis L'Amour
it was amazing
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
The Strong Land by Louis L'Amour
Shalako by Louis L'Amour
The Master of Disguise by Antonio J. Méndez
Give Unto Others by Donna Leon
Sitka by Louis L'Amour
Are We Rome? by Cullen Murphy
So Shall You Reap by Donna Leon
Aunty Lee's Chilled Revenge by Ovidia Yu
The Sixth Shotgun by Louis L'Amour
it was amazing
The Night of the Panthers by Piergiorgio Pulixi
Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
Utah Blaine by Jim Mayo
The Tuesday Night Club by Agatha Christie
Vacuum by Bill James
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie
We Were the Salt of the Sea by Roxanne Bouchard
The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
Where the Long Grass Blows by Louis L'Amour
Gold Dust by Reavis Z. Wortham
it was amazing
The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour
The Fat Detective by Christian Hayes
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
The Big Four by Agatha Christie
Big Bear (Mistahimusqua) by J.R. Miller
Beethoven by Jan Swafford
The Forger's Spell by Edward Dolnick

James ’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Entertaining story of a famous forger in the 1930s and '40s.

This is a quick read, with a fair number of circuitous related facts and anecdotes. The core of the story is however both sad - the forger was something of a loser - and funny. Essentially everyone likes telling the emperor he's naked, and as the story stretched for a couple of decades any number of art experts and collectors were left with egg on their faces during and after the trial. ...more
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