My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall - the actress/director talks about her childhood and how she got into directing. Her mother was odd, but no more so the Penny. I found the book rather disjointed once she got into her adult life, it seemed to move around in time. A lot of drug taking.
3 stars
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The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan - right before WWI begins, an ocean liner blows up and 39 people are trapped in a lifeboat for many days. I wanted to like this more than I did. I didn't find the protagonist very likeable.
3 stars
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Mission Flats by William Landay - the mystery part was good but there were some twists later in the story I didn't like and ultimately found it fairly depressing.
3 stars
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Canada by Richard Ford - written by a Pulitzer prize winner and I guess that means you have to use lots of words. I found it rather repetitious and somewhat unbelievable. The parents of 15 year old twins decide to rob a bank. Once that finally happens the rest of the story is about what happens to the son.
2 stars
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Suspect by Robert Crais - a stand alone not in his regular Elvis Cole series. A wounded cop and a wounded war veteran dog wind up together. Sometimes told from the viewpoint of the dog. Really liked this because it was a little different.
4 stars
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