Killed by the Narrator

And the narrator was good.
And the book was good.
But...the book was set in the American South...at a college...the main character is a college student...so why a middle age British narrator.
Just pretty much ruined the whole thing.
I didn't have high hopes for Watching, the first in the Making of Riley Paige series. 
Blake Pierce and the series and all of the others books and series written under the name Blake Pierce are one of those...what are they called...I can't remember the term...hang on...syndicate is the word I found right now, but there is another word for it.  Like Nancy Drew but for adults.  But all of these books under this name are on hoopla and when there is nothing else to read, I have been tempted.  But man...the British narrator?  Just weird and maybe lazy. 

Life Is But a

Walking Shadow(s), a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.  It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Walking Shadows is the twenty-fifth book in the Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series and I loved, loved, loved it.  Not a surprise, as I love Faye Kellerman and this series!

Please, Ms. Kellerman, allow Peter to be so stubborn as to not listen to Rina's urgings for him to consider retirement!

Unless Rina would then open up her own little PI company....she is just as good (if not better) at detecting that her hubby!

Fantastic! 

Peter and Rina!

How do I love thee?  The Bone Box was another excellent and much anticipated edition to Peter and Rina on the East Coast!  Oh, Faye Kellerman, thank you for sharing your talent with the world!  How I just wish you could write them faster!

Peter and Rina: more east coast crime!

When I read Murder 101, if you remember, I was SO glad that Peter and Rina didn't stop crime busting when they moved to the east coast.  And I was super excited to see that there was another book, The Theory of Death that had already been published!  While said, "WHOA!  How did I miss this?!?"  It was kinda cool that I didn't have to wait for it to be published!  I was able to buy and download it right away on audible because I knew I would love it.
And I did.
THANK YOU, Faye Kellerman!
August has been very Kellermany!
Hooray for #23!  Can't wait for #24!

Guard Each One's Dignity and Save Each One's Pride

They'll Know We are Christians By Our Love is one of my most favorite songs.  If I had to pick a song that I try to live by and that I think would be a good one to describe the Christian life, it would be this one.  That is because of the lines, "and we'll guard each one's dignity and save each one's pride."  I just think that is what we need to focus on, in all times.  Missoula:  Rape and the Justice System in a College Town might not be the book that one thinks of when one is reminded of this song, but it should be.  Now Missoula isn't a church, it isn't "Christian" in name or in claim.  And I don't even know if any of the people who are written about in this book are Christians, but they are all God's children.  And we all have a responsibility to guard each one's dignity and save each one's pride.  And we all have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.  That didn't seem to happen in Missoula in these cases.  A very eye-opening book.  It didn't give me an iffy/icky feeling like Three Cups of Deceit.  It just made me very sad/mad/shocked to hear how often sexual assault and rape occur and how cases were handled in Missoula and that this wasn't really all that rare.  The other thing is, how the Missoula situation was tied into sports.  I am just not a sports person, so this was very hard to understand and reminded me of the Penn State horror, in which sports came first.  Sickening.