Retired linguist/law/IT. Avid reader in all languages (see polyglot.city/@FrankauLux/ ), both paper and ebooks. Mostly fictions these days.
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As expected - many twists and turns. Again, if you like mysteries / thrillers, this is for you. Available on Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71073. Enjoy !
As usual, most excellent S. King. Almost missed my plane with that one. Was so deep in the book I forgot where I was. A dozen of short stories, some very short, some longer. Most excellent, but then I'm probably biased. definitely recommended
Inspector French # 4
Off the coast of Burry Port in south Wales, two fishermen …
Again, most excellent mystery with twist and turns. Also available from Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72771 Recommended !!!
> In a country hotel Maxwell Cheyne sits down to lunch with the pleasant stranger …
Quite different from the previous one, but stil a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside of a puzzle. Also recommended, also available on Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72986
> THE FIRST INSPECTOR FRENCH MYSTERY
>At the offices of the Hatton Garden diamond merchant …
This is a real discovery !!! I found the epub on an old ereader that I received. Never heard about the author, but I like whodunnit and mystery cases, so I thought I might as well go ahead and read it. Fascinating. Really well done, with twists and plot turns all over. Obviously old (five and twenty, really ? :-), but still good. You can find it here: gutenberg.org/ebooks/65553 and I found 3 more by the same author, which I'm downloading as I speak. Recommended.
Doctor Ponnonner invites the narrator to his home to take part in a mummy unwrapping. …
Very funny (and short) not usual Poe but nice
« Ardemment je souhaitais le jour – vainement j’avais cherché d’emprunter à mes livres un …
Very short and not as good as Alan Parson's version :-)
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re …
Very good. M. Wells is getting better and better. recommended. no need to have read the previous.
was born on April 26, A.D. 121. His real name was M. Annius Verus, and …
Seems a nice one to alternate with murderbots :-)
No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body …
Loads of time to kill, so went for this. Can be read indepently from the 4 first murderbot. Nice whodunnit.
"Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling …
Wrapping up the trilogy of 4 saga. Makes for a nice reading, nothing exceptional but easy and gentle.
Sci-fi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris …
More adventures... Not sure where it is all leading. Easy read so not a chore but wondering...
It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. A past …
Easy and fast read, in the wake of #1. Not much happening in this one, more setting for later I guess, but still enjoyable. :-)
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
Very good. My first read upon bookwyrm recommendation and definitelky don't regret it. Thanks to [privacy] :-) Going for episode 2 of the saga !!
Cannery Row is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1945. It is …
Excellent. I love Steinbeck's descriptive writing,it's almost like watching a movie. Moreover I happen to know the region where the action is set (Salinas, Monterey, etc) so I can really "see" it. Very recommended.