The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker - a young girl tells the story of the earth suddenly starting to spin slower. At first it's just a few minutes a day. It's as much a coming of age story as anything.
4 stars
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The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms by Amy Stewart - all about worms. They're much more important than we think.
3 stars
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Hit Me by Lawrence Block - the 5th book in the Keller series. He's now a retired hitman but gets back in the business because his construction business isn't doing well in the economy. Lawrence Block is one of my favorite authors, I like his weird humor. Don't know why I like these books about a man who kills people for a living but I do. He also collects stamps and you learn quite a bit about that. They are not graphic.
4 stars
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The Bughouse Affair by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini - this is set in the 1890's and feature a former Secret Service agent and a woman who used to work for the Pinkertons. They have opened a detective agency together. I was all set to enjoy the book and then they introduced a person purporting to be Sherlock Holmes. The book seems to present Holmes as a real person although we're not supposed to know if the man claiming to be him really is. That threw the whole book out of kilter for me. I would have enjoyed it more with just the two main characters.
2 stars
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