Ameise1 (Barbara)'s fourth ROOT

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Ameise1 (Barbara)'s fourth ROOT

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1Ameise1
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 4, 2016, 1:38 pm

I'm looking forward to another wonderful reading year. Due to lots of library books I set my target again for ten from my TBR pile and everything which is more will go as an addition for the group.







# 1 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkinton (on the shelf since 2013) (4½ stars)
# 2 The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christies (on the shelf since 2012) (3½ stars)
# 3 The Confession by Olen Steinhauer (on the shelf since 2014) (4½ stars)
# 4 The Blackhouse by Peter May (on the shelf since 2012) (4½ stars)
# 5 American Tabloid by James Ellroy (on the shelf since 2010) (4½ stars)
# 6 Four To Score by Janet Evanovich (on the shelf since 2013) (4 stars)
# 7 The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall (on the shelf since 2014) (4½ stars)
# 8 The Villa of Mysteries by David Hewson (on the shelf since 2015) (4 stars)
# 9 The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (on the shelf since 2012) (4½ stars)
#10 Gallows View by Peter Robinson (on the shelf since 2011) (4½ stars)

2cyderry
joulukuu 22, 2015, 10:50 am

Every book counts toward a great year whether they are ROOTs or not!

3Ameise1
joulukuu 22, 2015, 11:37 am

>2 cyderry: Indeed, Chèli, but it also helps the group ticker when I'll have reached my target and read some more ROOTs, isn't it?

4connie53
joulukuu 22, 2015, 1:43 pm

Happy ROOTing, Barb!

5Ameise1
joulukuu 22, 2015, 3:32 pm

>4 connie53: Thanks so much, Connie.

6rabbitprincess
joulukuu 22, 2015, 5:26 pm

Welcome back and enjoy your reading! :)

7Ameise1
joulukuu 22, 2015, 5:32 pm

>6 rabbitprincess: Thanks so much, will do so :-)

8cyderry
joulukuu 22, 2015, 8:53 pm

>3 Ameise1: yes it does.

9MissWatson
joulukuu 23, 2015, 3:58 am

Nice to see you again!

10Ameise1
joulukuu 23, 2015, 5:55 am

>9 MissWatson: Thanks so much, Birgit.

11majkia
joulukuu 23, 2015, 8:18 am

The curse of the new and shiny. Old dusty tomes are always dull by comparison.

I try to remind myself that they were once bright and shiny too!

12Ameise1
joulukuu 23, 2015, 8:23 am

>11 majkia: Love your quote, Jean. There are some really dusty ones on my shelve. So off I go to sort them out.

13avanders
joulukuu 26, 2015, 9:38 pm

Happy Rooting!

14Ameise1
joulukuu 27, 2015, 1:58 am

>13 avanders: Thanks so much, Ava.

15Tess_W
joulukuu 27, 2015, 9:45 am

Happy rooting!

16Ameise1
joulukuu 27, 2015, 10:22 am

>15 Tess_W: Thanks so much, Tess. I'm currently reading a ROOT 2015 to help the group reaching the target. :)

17lkernagh
joulukuu 31, 2015, 9:57 pm

Hi Barbara! Good luck with your ROOT reading!

18connie53
tammikuu 1, 2016, 3:08 am

19Ameise1
Muokkaaja: tammikuu 1, 2016, 4:52 am

>17 lkernagh: Thanks so much, Lori.

>18 connie53: Thanks so much, Connie. The same to you. We spent a quiet evening at home.

20Tess_W
tammikuu 1, 2016, 5:16 am

21Ameise1
tammikuu 1, 2016, 5:20 am

>20 Tess_W: Thanks so much, Tess.

22Robertgreaves
tammikuu 2, 2016, 7:03 am

Happy New Year, Ameise. Hope you have a great reading and ROOTing 2016.

23Ameise1
tammikuu 2, 2016, 10:45 am

>22 Robertgreaves: Thanks so much, Robert. I wish you the same.

24avanders
tammikuu 3, 2016, 4:03 pm

Hello and

:)

25Ameise1
tammikuu 3, 2016, 4:30 pm

>24 avanders: Thanks so much, Ava. What a beautiful pic.

26MissWatson
tammikuu 4, 2016, 6:12 am

Happy New Year, Barbara, and have a great time reading and ROOTing!

27Ameise1
tammikuu 4, 2016, 2:30 pm

>25 Ameise1: Thanks so much Birgit. There are first two library books I have to read before I can start with a ROOT one.

28Tallulah_Rose
tammikuu 4, 2016, 2:34 pm

Welcome back and happy ROOTing this year again! May you dust some old books off your shelf!

29Ameise1
tammikuu 4, 2016, 3:05 pm

>26 MissWatson: Thanks so much, TR. I hope you enjoy your reading year, too.

30LauraBrook
tammikuu 23, 2016, 10:05 pm

I'm so glad to see you here again, Barbara! Good luck ROOTing!

31Ameise1
tammikuu 24, 2016, 3:26 am

>30 LauraBrook: Thanks so much, Laura.

32connie53
helmikuu 3, 2016, 1:13 pm

How are you doing on your ROOTs, Barb?

33Ameise1
helmikuu 3, 2016, 1:16 pm

>32 connie53: Connie, I'm reading on my first ROOT now. It was terribly busy at school. This afzernoon I just finished writing all reports for my pupils and now I hope life is getting back.

34connie53
helmikuu 3, 2016, 1:18 pm

I hope that for you too, Barb. Glad to hear school things are settling down and you will get some reading done.

35Ameise1
helmikuu 3, 2016, 1:19 pm

>34 connie53: Thanks so much, Connie. On the 13th we're leaving for our two weeks ski holiday in Davos. I'm looking forward to it.

36connie53
helmikuu 3, 2016, 1:23 pm

Happy Holiday, Barb. Have fun.

37Ameise1
helmikuu 3, 2016, 1:46 pm

:-)

38avanders
helmikuu 3, 2016, 2:41 pm

>35 Ameise1: yay sounds wonderful!

39Ameise1
helmikuu 3, 2016, 3:47 pm

>38 avanders: Thanks so much, Ava. I'm really looking forward to it.

40Ameise1
helmikuu 6, 2016, 12:23 pm

book 1

 The Magnificent Amberson
Pulitzer Prize Challenge

That was a very interesting reading. It shows the rise and fall of American families who leave a footnote in history or nothing. In this particular story the fall of the Amberson family is shown. Whereas George Amberson Minafer's grandfather was a wealthy and respected man, his offspring show no incentive to manage or enhance the asset. On the contrary, they feel that they can continue to live on a large foot as this was the case earlier, without doing anything for the community and also to pursue any profession. But the world turned quickly. New inventions such as the car has been made, the city kept growing and new names were more important to the community than the Ambersons. George Amberson Minafer started to work only when the whole family fortune was lost and he had to support his aunt so she could spend a pleasant retirement.

41Tess_W
helmikuu 6, 2016, 1:58 pm

Sounds like a BB for me!

42Ameise1
helmikuu 6, 2016, 2:37 pm

>41 Tess_W: Tess, I can strongly recommend it.

43MissWatson
helmikuu 6, 2016, 3:19 pm

>40 Ameise1: Sounds like a very interesting read. And I believe I've got it on my e-reader...

44Ameise1
helmikuu 6, 2016, 4:26 pm

>43 MissWatson: Wishing you a nice reading, Birgit when you'll find it.

45Ameise1
helmikuu 15, 2016, 11:06 am

book 2


BAC February

Normally I love the ease of Christie's thrillers. This, however, was very long-winded. Somehow missing a fast-paced tension. Although I'm a fan of Poirot's little gray cells and I love his charming Belgian way to solve a murder mystery, he convinced me not in this book.


46Jackie_K
helmikuu 15, 2016, 11:48 am

>45 Ameise1: I have to confess that that is the only Christie I have ever read. I think I scored it similarly, and didn't feel like I wanted to rush to read any more.

47Ameise1
helmikuu 15, 2016, 12:31 pm

>46 Jackie_K: Jackie, usually I adore her books. She was a master in misdirection. This was her first book and I think she made it better with the later ones.

48Ameise1
helmikuu 20, 2016, 3:05 pm

book 3

 The Confession

This was a very impressive story. It shows that Steinhauer knows the Eastern Europe history of the cold war very closely. While the first book in this series during and after WWII plays describes this part of the mid fifties. As before it comes to spying in the highest circles. Neither the police nor the intelligence service is exempt. The big brother Russia flexes its muscles and monitors the activities of other countries of Eastern Europe. The Russian spies have the feeling that they had a free hand and cover up their murders and killed police officers other nations who come too close. Ferenc tries again this time not only to protect his wife and daughter as well as his closest friends in the police station and he brings himself in great danger.
Besides the great crisis in Hungary is mentioned. During these tragic weeks, many Hungarians fled to the West. I myself have friends who participated this flight. Although they are now almost 60 years living with us, this tragic chapter of her life is always in them.

49Ameise1
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 29, 2016, 10:11 am

book 4

 The Blackhouse

This is a very exciting entry into the Lewis Trilogy. It is the story of DI Fin Macleod and his friends from childhood and youth. Macleod is sent to the Isle of Lewis, where he was born and raised in order to solve a murder, which has similarities to a murder he treated in Edinburgh. On the island arrived, not only the investigation of the murder awaits him, but he has to deal with his past. He is not only received with open arms, but suddenly faces reticence and aggression. By the time he comes back the cause of the murder and his messed up childhood has to process painful.
It was a very gripping reading and I liked it very much.


50Tess_W
maaliskuu 6, 2016, 5:13 pm

>49 Ameise1: sounds like a great book!

51Ameise1
maaliskuu 7, 2016, 11:33 am

>50 Tess_W: Tess, it is fantastic. I'll definitely read the others of this series, too. I have to pick them in the library.

52Ameise1
huhtikuu 3, 2016, 11:42 am

# 5



This is an exciting thriller that made me breathless until the last page. It is the first book of the Underworld USA trilogy . It is the rise of the Kennedys to the day of the assassination of JFK. It is the story of how the Mafia, corrupt agents (FBI / CIA) to the highest authorities had their hands in the game. It is also the story of the Cuban Crisis. Even if it is a fiction, shows Ellroy how politics works. Although this is a purely American history, it could happen in many countries worldwide like that. It shows once again that money rules the world and who sold the devil his soul, it gets never return.


53Ameise1
Muokkaaja: toukokuu 15, 2016, 4:49 am

book 6

 Four to Score

This was a very enjoyable read. I often laughed out loud about Stephanie's clumsiness. She has truly come to a talent in every faux pas and to achieve her goal anyway. In this story, once again went to her apartment and her car in flames. The special love relationship with Joe Morelli was intensified and Grandma Mazur, who always 'young at heart' coped well with a drag queen.
I love Plums stories, as they are easy and quick to read and always make me laugh.

54Ameise1
toukokuu 15, 2016, 4:48 am

book 7

 The Case of the Man Who died Laughing

This is the second book of the Vish Puri series. It is a very amusing reading. I like the way Hall captures life, the smells, the sounds and emotions in Delhi and brings across us readers as authentic that we have to be right in the middle of this bustling city feel. The main theme in this story is about how people are guided by the charlatanism of gurus hoodwinked and partly lose not only their independent thinking but also their money and their lives. It is described as having 'magic' tricks that people are out there to believe in nonexistent miracle.
But also the private lives of Vish Puri seems to bring news. So his daughter is pregnant with twins and his 'detective' mother and his wife determine without Puris knowledge in a robbery.
It is a book where there is plenty to smile and laugh. I am looking forward to the next volume.


55connie53
toukokuu 15, 2016, 7:07 am

Doing great, Barb!

56Ameise1
toukokuu 15, 2016, 7:16 am

>55 connie53: Thanks so much, Connie. At the moment I'm reading books from my local library. So no ROOTS.

57avanders
toukokuu 16, 2016, 9:40 am

>56 Ameise1: urgh, I'm suffering from the same affliction. ;P
But I'm almost done w/ my pile and will go back to ROOTs soon!

>54 Ameise1: sounds really interesting .. I've heard of that series before and am intrigued....

58Ameise1
toukokuu 16, 2016, 9:57 am

>57 avanders: It's really great fun. I have to buy the next one because my local library doesn't have the earlier ones anymore.

59avanders
toukokuu 16, 2016, 9:59 am

>58 Ameise1: bummer! I s'pose buying books is permissible though ;) (I rather enjoy it myself...)

60Ameise1
toukokuu 16, 2016, 10:01 am

61connie53
toukokuu 22, 2016, 10:32 am

Hi Barb, just peeping in and waving.

62Ameise1
toukokuu 22, 2016, 10:39 am

>61 connie53: Thanks for peeping in, Connie. Big waves right back to you.

63Ameise1
kesäkuu 29, 2016, 11:13 am

book 8

 The Villa of Mysteries
ROOT 2016

This is the second book of the Nic Costa series. I love this series and have most of the books already read, I did not start at the beginning. In this case, Nic Costa and his team have to solve the mystery of a young dead who was murdered sixteen years ago and a young girl who recently disappeared. He is on the track of the dark machinations of the Roman mob as well as their pathological sex drive by young girls are are stoned with drugs and raped. All this hidden under the slogan of an ancient ritual under Dyonisos.
It is exciting and the pathologist can not be determining.

64Ameise1
Muokkaaja: lokakuu 13, 2016, 2:56 pm

book 9

 The Yiddish Policemen's Union
AAC October

This was an exciting reading. Detective Meyer Landsman is awakened, because in another room of his hotel someone is dead. This is the beginning of an odyssey, with Landsman dealing not only with rival Jews, but also with his own past. You have the feeling that Landsman puts his foot in his mouth, losing everything that once meant something to him. In the course of time, however, one realizes that this kind of investigation will ultimately lead to the goal.
I have suffered with him. It was a fast reading and I could not put it aside.

65avanders
marraskuu 2, 2016, 11:41 am

Only 1 more to go!!

66Ameise1
marraskuu 3, 2016, 12:46 pm

Yep, :-)

67Ameise1
joulukuu 4, 2016, 1:38 pm

book 10

 Gallows View
BAC December

This is the first volume of the Inspector Banks series. I have read many books of this series, just not in the correct order. It was therefore very exciting to get to know the beginning of this series.
Alan Banks does not just have to arrest a voyeur. He has also been involved in a burglar series, which is carried out by teenagers and a murder of an old woman is also causing him headaches, because it seems to fit into no pattern. Banks has left the hectic London to return to the tranquil Eastvale, where the work seems to be much more hectic.
I like this series very much and will read more of it.

68MissWatson
joulukuu 5, 2016, 4:32 am

Congratulations on reaching your goal!

69avanders
joulukuu 5, 2016, 10:41 am

Yeah woo hoo congrats!

70rabbitprincess
joulukuu 5, 2016, 5:32 pm

Woo hoo! Congratulations!

71Tess_W
joulukuu 17, 2016, 7:14 pm

Congrats on reaching your goal!

72Ameise1
Muokkaaja: joulukuu 18, 2016, 6:53 am

>68 MissWatson: >69 avanders: >70 rabbitprincess: >71 Tess_W: Thanks so much for the cheering. I'm definitely in for the upcoming year, too.

73Tess_W
joulukuu 23, 2016, 10:37 pm

74Robertgreaves
joulukuu 24, 2016, 7:11 pm

A Merry Christmas, Happy Solstice and a Kewl Yule to you and yours, Barbara

75Ameise1
joulukuu 25, 2016, 5:40 am

>73 Tess_W: >74 Robertgreaves: thanks so much Tess and Robert. I wish you Meryy christmas, too.