Corky O.

Gut wrenching road to reality

Revisado: 10-03-24

This was an hour as honest and account as I’ve ever read in a memoir. For a rider to make herself, this vulnerable is really astounding. I really felt her story. The fact that her uncle is trying to be president again with a family history like this… Well, I’m 10 times more frightened than I was before I read the book.

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I wish Agatha Christie could’ve lived forever

Revisado: 09-24-24

I have been looking for something similar to the Agatha Christie style cozy mysteries. I love Dorothy Sayers and Ngaio Marsh as well. Just having found it and perhaps I never will.

I found the character development in this book. Interesting. But it just felt a little too cute for me. It’s rare for me not finish a book, but I gave up.

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Well, written and interesting

Revisado: 04-29-23

Well, written book. I follow the royal family and English history pretty closely, so it wasn’t that I learned a lot of new things, but I did get a better chronology of Megxit. I intend to awake at 2 AM on May 6 to watch the coronation.

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Right matters But currently isn’t in style

Revisado: 02-13-23

Riveting, educational, and very sad. I already respected Lindeman, but now my respect has gone off the charts. There are very few people in service to the country who are willing to do what he did. That’s where the sadness comes in. Learning about his early years, really added a dimension to what he did that I wasn’t aware of before. It isn’t unusual to find out that immigrants frequently are more loyal to the Constitution and native born citizen. It should be unusual, but it isn’t.

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As if I was there on Everest

Revisado: 02-05-23

This is one of the best narratives I read of an ascent on Everest. The level of detail takes the reader with the climber so closely that the reader can get lost in the story. Fabulous I really enjoyed it.

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Disappointing

Revisado: 01-21-23

I can’t believe this tome was written by MC Beaton. I really enjoyed the Hamish Macbeth series and absolutely howled my way through Agatha Raisin, but this was tediously corny at best.

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Unbelievable

Revisado: 10-25-21

I don’t know where to start. This book, although tedious at times, is a history of British coding during the better portion of World War II. Although I have known in general that cryptography exist, I knew nothing of how it was developed or used.

Marx gave a view of the war I never knew. Although sometimes offended by his attitude towards women, I wrote it off to the times preferring to concentrate on his unbelievable coding creations, The operations and people involved in the field and political gamesmanship at home.

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The best yet

Revisado: 07-20-21

After nearly quitting Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache books (I’ve read all in series up though this one-totally put off by last one,-The Beautiful mystery)Louise Penny books in order, I took a chance on this one and was hooked immediately. This was an absolute hair-raising read. Beautifully written as always.

Looking forward to the next one!

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Tone deaf

Revisado: 10-25-20

Completely inappropriate and tone deaf given the tragic sequence of events in Tibet as a result of the Chinese overrunning the country and its genocide against the Tibetan people.

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Disappointing

Revisado: 08-01-20

Given the authors of this book, I was so disappointed in the first book of the series. I figured out who the murderer was well before the end. Also, I noticed a similarity to the Campion stories where Campion has a “helper” that is also an x-criminal. In this tale however, the person isn’t his butler as is the case with Campion but I noticed it right away. Do I read the second book in the series to see if things improve? I’m willing to do that but I far prefer that Louise Penny mysteries!

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