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PennyK

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20. Just finished Laurie R. King's Lockdown

Tue Feb 13, 2018, 04:14 PM

Feb 2018

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Her latest and quite engrossing. It's the buildup to a crisis situation at a middle school. It's told in mini-chapters about each of the many characters, and it appears that quite a few of them could end up being the instigator.

I've also recently finished Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen, a non-fiction look at America's history of shysters and saps, basically leading up to the election of DJT.

Otherwise, I'm having fun with the "cozy mystery" series (Her Royal Spyness, Molly Murphy, Evan Evans) of Rhys Bowen, who also wrote In Farleigh Field, a WWII-era mystery that I enjoyed very much.

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