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Rated Past Lying 6/10
<div>Pandemic Era Karen Pirie is more uptight and self-righteous than usual, and she still hasn't learned that diet talk isn't doing her any favors. The ending is a somewhat foregone conclusion (not that our detectives recognize it!), and I guess overall this was just... ok.</div>
Reviewed The Secret Life of Groceries
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Rated Patternmaster 7/10
<div>I didn't NOT like this one, but you can tell it was written first out of the four because the world/circumstances are much less fleshed out than they are in the previous three books. I found it interesting, but it wasn't love.</div>
Finished reading The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Wants to read Murder on the Orient Express
Wants to read The Golden Notebook
Wants to read The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Wants to read Heart of Darkness
Finished reading The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato
Wants to read Modern Glamour: The Art of Unexpected Style
Rated Persepolis Rising 8/10
<div>Really solid progression of the series, and now with a jump in time, so I can see why the show is (initially??) ending with the previous book. However, I do wish some of the moving parts in this book re: the ending had been a bit more "on screen" than they were, but I suppose that neatly solves the problem of having to come up with those details? Writing hack, ha.</div>
Wants to read Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them