Day 15 – Cuz This Is Thriller! 

Thrillers aren’t the genre I go to the most but they are starting to be the ones that I go to to decompress from all of the serious reads I pick up.  I chose Blanche Cleans Up (The Blanche White series #3) by Barbara Neely and A Little Yellow Dog (The Easy Rawlins series #5) by Walter Mosley because these are the two mystery series that I need to finish and to get moving along on.  The Blanche White series sadly only contains four books.  Once I’m finished with book four I know I’m going to miss reading about Blanche.

Easy Rawlins is another series that is full of surprises since with each book time is passing and the secondary characters are becoming more and more fascinating and Easy is taking us along on his more and more unpredictable cases, while we follow the changes happening to him and the other prominent characters.  This series contains a total of 14 books, so I hope to be able read a bit more from this series.  Next month for #MarchMysteryMadness, these will fit in perfectly with theme being the number 5. Check out this video to hear more about it.

Day 16 – Last Finished

What can I say.  The last book I finished was the incredible epic ReadSoulLit Readalong novel, The Last Thing You Surrender. And I surrendered everything! Lawd! That novel took me through all kinds of emotions.  It’s a brilliant story with larger than life characters who you aren’t likely to forget.  I’m still missing reading about Thelma, Luther, and George.  If you haven’t decided yet about picking this book up there is still time to start and finish it before our live discussion on Saturday, February 29.  I highly recommend this great American masterpiece.  It’s a hidden gem that has literally not been talked about at all that was released last year.  Check out this video where Leonard Pitts, Jr. talks about something that he illustrates very well in his novel The Last Thing You Surrender. Brilliant storyteller!

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