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📚 Want to Read

Lost in the Holler

\"Lost

ON MY RADAR

A Southern Gothic family saga unravels secrets like a nesting doll. RJ Burnette returns to Appalachian Gizzard’s Holler from New York, uncovering deception and a cold murder. As he digs through lies, he questions his identity and justice. Rich descriptions of food, music, and landscape draw readers into a warm yet suffocating community. Haunted by secrets, the story’s final confession is chilling, highlighting family loyalty and mountain justice with a slow reveal.
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📚 Want to Read

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A City on Mars

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Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith

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2025

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The promise of starting life anew far away—no climate change, war, or doomscrolling—seems within reach. But are we ready? Kelly and Zach Weinersmith explore a future of space settlements, questioning if they’ll create conflicts back home. Their book tackles questions like: Can you make babies in space? Should corporations run space colonies? What about space war? They blend humor, expertise, and art to explore humanity’s biggest questions: becoming multiplanetary. Get in, we’re going to Mars.
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📚 Want to Read

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Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds

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Gwenda Bond

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2019

\n		\"Stranger
In summer 1969, Indiana student Terry Ives, far from Vietnam and protests, learns of a government experiment in Hawkins. She joins as a test subject for MKULTRA at Hawkins National Laboratory, uncovering a conspiracy behind its walls and Director Dr. Brenner. Facing this, she allies with fellow subjects in a battle where the human mind is the warzone.
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📚 Currently Reading

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Havoc

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Christopher Bollen

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📚 Currently Reading

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The Burial Hour

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Jeffery Deavers

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📚 Currently Reading

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The Andromeda Strain

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Michael Crichton

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The Andromeda Strain

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Michael Crichton

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The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

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Dan Brown

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The Andromeda Strain

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Michael Crichton

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\"Lost
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Lost in the Holler

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2025 · Michael R. West

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RJ Burnette leaves New York for his Appalachian hometown, where he uncovers a decades-old murder and confronts a community's code of silence while searching for truth about his family.

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\"The
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The One

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2019 · John Marrs

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How far would you go to find The One? A simple DNA test—just a mouth swab—can match you with your perfect partner, claiming to connect us with our soulmate. Since a decade ago, millions have been paired, but the results have caused breakups and questioned traditional love ideas. Now, five people have been notified they're 'Matched,' each about to meet their true love. However, \"happily ever after\" isn't guaranteed, as even soul mates have secrets—some shocking.
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After I watched the first episode of Detective Hole, I want to read: The Devil’s Star by Jo Nesbo 📚

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Want to read: Radiant Star by Ann Leckie 📚

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The planet Aaa has lost its star, forcing its population to live underground. The underground city is quite an inward-looking backwater, and its central focus is a rather arcane religious site called the Temporal Location of the Radiant Star. The site is home to many “saints”, who may or may not just be dead bodies. Outside the Temporal Location, the city is a very political place. The locals are fractious, and oddly reliant on onions (which becomes important later).
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Source

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While I was watching the Coroner Season 1, episode 1, I just learned that it was based on a novel with the same name but it is a series, totalling 8, based on a character, Jenny Cooper, the coroner!

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So I add to ‘Want to read’: The Coroner by Matthew Hall 📚

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Just watched the video about the book below. Thought I would add it to my reading list.

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Want to read: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 📚

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Want to read: The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer 📚 It looks like an interesting read. Amazon labels it as a best seller, with a rating of 4.1 on Goodreads.

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A woman taking a Craigslist job that turns out to be far more dangerous than expected. Macy Mullins takes the job for three days in Oregon Coast wilderness, only to face a possible evil threatening humanity.

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\n I’ve been a loyal John Grisham fan for years, keeping a Christmas tradition my dad started for my late mamaw. I own every book, and The French Illusion will be under the tree this year.\n

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“Many of the elements that make legal thrillers compelling—high stakes, hidden motives, intricate plots, and shady characters—also propel the best espionage fiction.”\n\n— John Grisham, Doubleday (2026)\n

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\n I will miss his courtroom chaos. Although it isn't classic legal grit, I’ll still read it because he is John Grisham.\n

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\nView \"The French Illusion\"
on Amazon \n
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I’m 24% through this book - “Macabre” by Kosoko Jackson.

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I’m 27% through this book - “Dust" by Patricia Cornwell.

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I’m 14% through this book - “Macabre” by Kosoko Jackson.

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I’m 48% through this book - “The Secret of Secrets” by Dan Brown.

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-22T17:40:00-04:00", "url": "https://tobygeeksout.micro.blog/2026/02/22/im-through-this-book-the.html", "tags": ["Bookshelf"] }, { "id": "http://tobygeeksout.micro.blog/2026/02/20/dnfing-i-am-pilgrim-by.html", "content_html": "\n

DNF-ing I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes for now.

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Robin’s Books summed it up perfectly —

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‘about 350 pages too long’ and ’needed a much tighter edit.’

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Feed Me Fiction backed that up, saying

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’those first 200 pages were overwhelming, so detailed in telling backstory which you weren’t sure you really needed to know.'

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Hayes is verbose and meanders instead of getting to the point. Not in the mood for that kind of commitment right now.

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So I am currently reading The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly. 📚

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I decide to read another book, I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes 📚, while I am still reading The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6) by Dan Brown 📚.

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Currently reading: The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6) by Dan Brown 📚. Got it from my parents, started reading 2 weeks ago! I wonder what the secret of secrets is…I’m on page 260, nearly middle of the book. Perhaps, the secret isn’t revealed yet? I hope I will find out eventually! 🙄🙄🙄

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