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François

FrankAuLux@outside.ofa.dog

Joined 2 years, 8 months ago

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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9% complete! François has read 10 of 104 books.

Andrew Weissman: Where Law Ends (en language, 2020, Random House) No rating

In May 2017, Robert Mueller was tapped to lead an inquiry into Russian interference in …

This reads like a thriller, even thought it is supposed to be a true story. While i all pretty sure the facts are correct, what bothers me is the constant pause of the author for everyone he worked with. I am glad for him he had such a wonderful dream team. However, after a hundred pages it starts to feel like repetitions... There is also the inevitable account settling at the end, but all in all an interesting book that not only documents Russian intervention in the us election but sheds a light on a possible explanation of trump's attitude to Russia and Ukraine invasion. Worth the time.

finished reading And Four to Go (Crime Line) by Rex Stout (The Rex Stout Library)

Rex Stout: And Four to Go (Crime Line) (Paperback, 1992, Crimeline) No rating

From Wikipedia:

And Four to Go (British title Crime and Again) is a collection …

4 short stories. Don't like it too much because i don't feel i have the necessary information to solve the crime, and that's what I'm looking for in that time of stories. So jury's out at the moment

Joël Dicker: Le livre des Baltimore (French language, 2015, Éditions de Fallois) No rating

Jusqu’au jour du Drame, il y avait deux familles Goldman. Les Goldman-de-Baltimore et les Goldman-de-Montclair.

Très bon bouquin, dernier de la trilogie Harry Quebert. On ferme un pan secondaire de l'histoire HQ, même s'il se développe en pan primaire. Pas mon préféré des trois, masi bien fichu quand même.

Joël Dicker: L'Affaire Alaska Sanders (Paperback, 2022, ROSIE WOLFE) No rating

Avril 1999. Mount Pleasant, une paisible petite bourgade du New Hampshire, est bouleversée par un …

Excellent suite à la non moins excellente "Affaire Harry Quebert". Numéro 2 de la trilogie, le 3ème livre, "le livre des baltimore" est clairement annoncé. Il n'est pas obligatoire d'avoir lu le précédent - les points important sont rapellés de toutes façons, mais cela aide :-) Tout à fait conseillé. Je me plonge dans le 3 de ce pas :-)