THE JAMES MASON COMMUNITY BOOK CLUB discussion

The Museum of Desire by Jonathan Kellerman

The Institute by Stephen King

Rather Be the Devil by Ian Rankin

The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

Ava's Man by Rick Bragg

Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman

Silence Broken: Moving from a Loss of Innocence to a World of Healing and LoveSara O'Meara

Live Wire by Harlan Coben

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

Dark Tort by Diane Mott Davidson

Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers by Leslie Bennetts

The Cincinnati Red Stalkings by Troy Soos



I'm fairly addicted to this series of mystery novels set during the Deadball and Babe Ruth eras of major league baseball in which the game itself is an integral part of each novel.

Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth

A Book of Bones by John Connolly

I'm reading a vintage book from 1935 called "The Strange Proposal" by Grace Livingston Hill. I found it in the vintage book section at Bookman's Used Books in Flagstaff, Arizona. I enjoy reading old books.

These Women by Ivy Pochoda

The Burglar on the Prowl by Lawrence Block

Something Borrowed, Someone Dead by M.C. Beaton

The Sherlockian by Graham Moore

Trouble Is What I Do by Walter Mosley

Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett

Inside the Hollywood Closet by Boze Hayleigh

I'm now reading "Hanging Curve" by Troy Soos.



It's Spring 1922 and Major League Baseball is back in season. Mickey Rawlings - a veteran utility infielder (this time with the St. Louis Browns of the American League) and amateur sleuth - is back on the scene, this time to investigate the lynching in a ball park of a star pitcher from the Negro Leagues.

The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson

Hollywood Ending by Kellye Garrett

Journey of the Pharaohs by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown.

I just finished the latest from Clive Cussler's work with his co-writer Graham Brown. Sadly we know we have lost Clive, who's writing career started several decades ago.

As always, an excellent read. Plenty of action and even a reason to smile now and again with the ingenious ways things are accomplished.

I always recommend work from Clive and his writers.

I'm now reading "A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt", an abridged diary edited by Simon Garfield.



Jean Lucey Pratt was an Englishwoman (who had been part of Britain's Mass Observation Project [MOP] from the late 1930s to World War II and beyond - the MOP was Britain's way of gauging public opinion on the eve of World War II and was one of the first measures of public opinion developed in the world) - who kept a diary from 1925 (when she was 16) until a few weeks before her death in 1986.

As someone who has kept diaries for close to 40 years, I have a fascination for reading diaries of people who lived in different eras and places.

Furmidable Foes by Rita Mae Brown

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A Private Cathedral: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke

Before She Was Found by Heather Gudenkauf

Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs by Jennifer Finney Boylan

The Operator by Gretchen Berg

The Ex by Alafair Burke

Southern Sass and a Crispy Corpse by Kate Young

Lynne wrote: "I am rereading Necessary Heartbreak by Michael John Sullivan and then Everybody's Daughter two great books. Had the pleasure of talking with the author Michael very nice guy. Highly recommend anyth..."

It's fun to meet an author, especially if they turn out to be nice. 😊

The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

I just finished "Final Option" by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison.
I have been reading Clive Cussler's books for decades, and I recommend them to any one who like action and adventure.

Act of Darkness by Jane Haddam

I havent been reading alot since my library been closed but here is what i read last 2 months. Some of these i had and fianlly read it

by Jennifer McMahon
by Tarryn Fisher
by Catherine McKenzie
by Meg Gardiner
by Heather Gudenkauf
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
by Lee Martin
by James Patterson
by Tess Gerritsen
by Gilly Macmillan
by Greer Hendricks Sarah Pekkanen

I've been bingeing on my bookshelves and although I have some unread books on there I went back to 20th c classics I'd read in my teens. the last one was After the Act by Winston Graham. Now I love the Poldark novels, so I was a bit disappointed to find this book was very dated. I wonder if it's because it's contemporary? I've also re-read several Mary Stewarts in the last couple of weeks while I've been recovering from corona virus and found the same with them. Maybe historicals don't have the same issue or not to the same extent? Thoughts anyone?

The Siberian Dilemma by Martin Cruz Smith

Margaret wrote: "I've been bingeing on my bookshelves and although I have some unread books on there I went back to 20th c classics I'd read in my teens. the last one was After the Act by Winston Graham. Now I love..."

Glad to hear you're recovering from coronavirus Margaret. 🙂
I used to read Mary Stewart mysteries but haven't picked one up in a long time.

Shannon wrote: "I havent been reading alot since my library been closed but here is what i read last 2 months. Some of these i had and fianlly read it

by [author:Jennifer McMahon|..."

Nice batch of books Shannon. Some good authors in there. 🙂

Barbara wrote: "Margaret wrote: "I've been bingeing on my bookshelves and although I have some unread books on there I went back to 20th c classics I'd read in my teens. the last one was After the Act by Winston G..."
Thank you! Not been out yet, but hoping to try later today. Symptoms all gone just a residual tiredness. Desperate to get back to actually writing!!

Shannon wrote: "I havent been reading alot since my library been closed but here is what i read last 2 months. Some of these i had and fianlly read it

by [author:Jennifer McMahon|..."
I can't believe I've only heard of one of these! - Are you in the US? There often seems to be a divide between the Us and the UK...

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Death of an Outsider by M.C. Beaton

I'm reading a YA book called "Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls" by Mary Downing Hahn. It's the fictionalized account of a true crime which happened in 1956.

Among the books I'm now reading are:

1) The Jg26 War Diary: Volume 2: 1943-1945 by Donald Caldwell



2) Three Women by Lisa Taddeo



3) The Betrayal: How the 1919 Black Sox Scandal Changed Baseball by Charles Fountain



4) How to be Famous by Caitlin Moran





5) Dawson's Fall: A Novel by Roxana Robinson



6) Wren Jane Beacon at War by D.J. Lindsay



7) Meet Me Under the Clock by Annie Murray



8) Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri K. Greenidge



9) Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart



10) Black September 1918: WWI's Darkest Month in the Air by Norman Franks



11) Aero-Neurosis: Pilots of the First World War and the Psychological Legacies of Combat by Mark C. Wilkins