Postcards That Depict Old Ladies in Some Way

2120.  Germany

Viele Grupe aus Tnier, der altestem Staal & Duetshlands!

Many greetings from Tnier, Germany's oldest town!

Hallo chris!  Our city's landmark is the Porta Nigra, our Roman city gate (170 AD.).  Archaeologists are very happy with the Roman things and finds in the ground here.  Best wishes to you in the USA!  Stay safe & healthy.  20 June 2021

2081.  Inge Look sent from Germany

Hello my name is Maken.  I like to hear music from Heiko Brauning and David Plum.  Please stay healthy.  Maken

2080.  Virginia

"The Critic" New York 1943 photograph by Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

I picked this card because you asked for old ladies, but age is relative.  You might not think these women are old.  I live in SE VA, near the border with NC.  We have great beaches in VA Beach and on the Outer Banks of NC (OBX).  I have a vegetable garden and a pet cat.  I also like to read books. June 11, 2021

2039.  Greetings from Vancouver, British Columbia

My first job was as a page in the city library.  I absolutely loved it!  I got to decorate the children's reading area, look at neat books as I put them away, and my friends could always visit.  I hope that you like this card.  Happy Spring!

1983.  Germany/Allemagne/Deutschland

Hello Chris, many greetings from Berlin.  I am also a teacher (for maths and physics) working with kids aged 12 - 21 from over 30 nations all around the world.  This is a big challenge but it also means lots of fun and it is never boring.  We learn a lot from each other.  Have a great time. 4-9-17

1958.  Bremen, GERMANY

Hello Chris, Hope you and your family are doing well.  I live here in Bremen in a house with a large garden and a large pond where sturgeon swim.  I've (can't read the writing here)...up to Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland.  Since 1985 worked as a fitter in different countries, Algeria, Israel, Norway, and Austria.  Now just in Germany.  Since 2016 pensioner.  Love to travel with my wife.  We love Paris and Gdansk.  All love from Bremen, Bernd

1944.  Minden, Germany

Postcard:  Inge Look/29

I love sending off the old ladies postcards.  They always make me smile.  Maybe I should start collecting them, too!  Spring is just around the corner and I can't wait for it to be warm again!  All the best, take care, Ute

1943.  Emmen, the Netherlands

Inge Look #36

Hi, I'm from Emmen, in the north-east of Holland.  Hope this card may bring a smile on your face.  It always happens to me...so funny!  Best wishes and enjoy Easter!  Gea

1941.  Jacksonville, Florida

Ralston, NB:  92-year-old Grandma Hayes attributes her long life and good health to the fact that five pipefuls of tobacco are daily smoked by her!"  1925

Hello Chris, My name is Casey and I live in Jacksonville, FL.  I work as a tugboat captain along the Atlantic Coast.  Peace.

1266.  "teatime with bird" from Getty Images

Received in a Swap from Pensylvania

Two good movies Postcard Swap:

Hello!  The two most recent ovies I saw were Coco & Black Panther.  I though both were amazing.  I cried hard in Coco - of course, Pixar always does that to me!  Black Panther is definitely one of the best Marvel movies, everybody was great in it.  Choneface

1261.  Greetings from Germany

Translation from Front:  Birthdays are good for your health.  The more you get, the older you get.  

In my spare time I like to take pictures.  I live with my family in an old town between Berlin and Leipzig.

1241.  Tainan, TAIWAN

Hello!  Today is the Spring Festival.  It's important Chinese celebrated on the 15th day of the first month in lunisolar calendar.  We'll eat Tanhyuan tonight.  That is glutinous rice flour mixed with a small amount of water to form balls.  Spring is coming...Happy!  Good Luck!  Passme

1220.  Russia

Hello Chris!  In Russia soon will be a holiday - Maslenitsa, is folk holiday, celebrated during the eighth week before Eastern Orthodox Pascha (Easter).  In Slavic mythology, Maslenitsa is a sun festival, personified by the ancient god Volos, and a celebration of the imminent end of the winter.  The main dish of the holiday is pancakes.  As the culmination of the celebration, people make an effigy of the Maslenitsa (straw) and burn her at the stake.  February, 2018

1213.  Lesor Hilltribe, Northern Thailand

10 February, 2018

Hello Chris, I send you a very warm greetings from Thailand.  It is winter here now but the weather is quite hot.  Today is +32 degrees C!  The Lesor (or Lisu) people are believed to originate from Tibet.  They can be found all over southeast Asia although it is only Thailand and Burma where traditional dress is very colorful.  Weena

1195.

see 1#875 below

1160.  tea und fun, Netherlands

Groningen

Hello Chris.  I am Hemmo.  Just retired from Special Education.  .....Groningen is a beautiful old city.  Nice to live in.  Now I am sitting in my favorite pub to write this card.  Hope you like it.  Postcrossing is a very nice hobby.  Wish you all the best this New Year.

1127.  "Never Too Old to Play"

Hello Chris!  I'm Daniela and live near Munich.  I hope you enjoy the old ladies on the postcard.  As I work as an accountant and the year end is the busiest time, I have to work these days.  But I enjoy the silence in the office.  Wishing you a happy new year!  

875.  The Netherlands

I hope you like this funny card as much as I did.  Mirjam

also 1995.

"Do not take life too seriously.  You will never get out of it alive." ~Elbert Hubbard

"To succeed in life, you need three things:  a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone." ~Reba McEntire

802.  Kouvola, FINLAND

Ingle Look card !!

I'm Kati and live in Kouvola City, Finland.  Happy Postcrossing!

672.  Inge Look card

mailed from Germany

Hello Chris,  Before I started with Postcrossing I never heard about Inge Look, but I am a big fan now!  I hope you enjoy this card.  In Bremen where I live we are a little bit away from winter - thank goodness!  Our sons look forward to Christmas.  Happy Postcrossing, Steffi

627.  Inge Look (Finnish artist) - sent from GERMANY

Hope you like this card.  Life in ......(I can't understand what she's written here)..I have 2 grandchildren.  Angelika

512.  Hanko, FINLAND
Inge Look!!!

Hello Chris!  My name is Ulrika, I am 47 years old.  I live in the sourthern most town of Finland: Hanko.  It is a small town but we have 30 km of beaches over here.  Have a wonderful day! Ulrika

Postcards from Brunei

And where, exactly, is Brunei?

1125.  Brunei

 Hi Chris, I'm hoping probiscus monkeys hanging out on a tree branch, looking down as if they're posing for a "candid" shot is quirky enough!  

Brunei is 70% covered with rainforest.  Our population is small - around 400,000, and that's including foreigners.  If you're a fan of mosquitoes, please do come to Brunei!  Take care, Nisa Said

7. Punishment by Scott Holliday

Det. John Barnes #1
read on my iPhone
2018, Thomas & Mercer
240 pgs.
Adult SciFi Mystery - Police Procedural
Finished 1-12-18
Goodreads rating:  3.85 - 1101 ratings
My rating:  4
Setting: Detroit in the future

First line/s:  "Detroit homicide detective John Barnes sat in an unmarked sedan, squeezing a fifth of bourbon by the neck."

My comments:  Awesome cover.  Couldn't put it down.  It's dark and gruesome and fascinating.  The protagonist, John Barnes, doesn't care about his own existence because of the guild he feels about his brother's death , many years before.  So he puts himself through all sorts of excruciating physical and mental pain - no, anguish - in his job as a police officer in this futuristic US.  This is the second SYfyI have read in the last week and I've never really been into sci-fi.  This one was good.  I loved and hated the way it was all wrapped up...

GoodReads synopsis: Detroit-based homicide detective John Barnes has seen it all—literally. Thanks to a technologically advanced machine, detectives have access to the memories of the living, the dying, and the recently dead. But extracting victims’ experiences firsthand and personally reliving everything up to the final, brutal moments of their lives—the sights, the sounds, the scents, the pain—is also the punishment reserved for the criminals themselves.
          Barnes has had enough. Enough of the memories that aren’t his. Enough of the horror. Enough of the voices inside his head that were never meant to take root…until a masked serial killer known as Calavera strikes a little too close to home.
          Now, with Calavera on the loose, Barnes is ready to reconnect, risking his life—and his sanity. Because in the mind of this serial killer, there is one secret even Barnes has yet to see…

MOVIE - 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

R (1:55)
Wide release 12/1/17 (But hard to find around here)

Viewed January 11, 2018
IMBd: 8.2

RT Critic:  92   Audience:  87
Critic's Consensus:  Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri deftly balances black comedy against searing drama -- and draws unforgettable performances from its veteran cast along the way.

Cag:  5.5 Incredible acting

Directed by Martin McDonagh (who also wrote it)

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage

My comments:  I snorted, I rolled my eyes, I got sad twinges in my stomach, I laughed, I was horrified, and I was constantly surprised.  Now that's a movie that takes you through efery emotion like you are on a short but sweet roller coaster ride.  I must admit the opening bars -- or even more than just the opening bars -- made me cringe.  It was opera; shrill, screechy opera.  My muscles were tense from the onset and I'm so glad that the rest of the music was totally acceptable after that bad start.  This was an amazing movie, with actors and actresses that have earned my standing ovation.  So many emotions, and they all rang true!  Definitely a winner.  There was one side story that was harder than I would've guessed at this pint in my life would be quite as difficult as it was, which brought back Steve' battle 17 years ago.  That was a little hard.

RT/ IMDb Summary:  THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI is a darkly comic drama from Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh (IN BRUGES). After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson), the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell), an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

6. The Homecoming by Alan Russell

listened on Audible
2017, Thomas & Mercer
332 pgs.
Adult CRF with a touch of scifi
Finished 1-11-18
Goodreads rating: 4.07 - 586 ratings
My rating: 3.5 or 4...the "can't put it down part" better push it to 4!

First line/s:  "Don't get too near the fire, Stella."

My comments:  So much food for thought!  There have to be other beings in space and close by, in reality how can that not be?  Reading this book makes you ask even more questions and think about it just a little bit more.

Goodreads synopsis: Seven years ago, young Stella Pierce vanished from the face of the earth. Now her grieving, broken family—along with Detective Orson Cheever, who never stopped working her case—is stunned by her mysterious return.
          The now-teenage girl claims to have spent her missing years in the company of Travelers—extraterrestrial nomads—voyaging through space.
          Despite her family’s effort to keep Stella’s incredible tale secret, the story becomes a national sensation. Most people want to discount her story, saying it’s the result of trauma; only Detective Cheever seems to want the same thing Stella does: the truth.
          The enigmatic Stella finds herself in the eye of the storm while vying forces—some visible and some not—swirl around her. Is it her tale that is incredible, or is it Stella? As new questions surrounding the girl gain terrifying urgency, Cheever learns that there is nothing—and no one—he can trust.

2018 Movie List

51 Movies so far in 2018

2017 - 49 movies

2016 - 62 movies

2015 - 37 movies

2014 - 46 movies

2013 - 48 movies

2012 - 37 movies

2011 - 54 movies

*6*  Awesome

5  Loved it

4  Liked it a lot

3  Liked it

2  It was okay

1  Nope

Green Book (12/27/18 Mesmerizing story and acting (5)

Instant Family (12/18/18) Perfectly cast, funny and heartwarming (5)
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (12/15/18) A bit confusing and long (2.5)

Mortal Engines (12/14/18) Excruciatingly long (1.5)

The Girl in the Spider's Web (11/19/18) As improbable as it was enjoyable (3)
Bohemian Rhapsody (11/13/18) OMG - Amazing!  (5.5)
The Bookshop (10/25/18) Crappy (1.5)
Puzzle (10/16/18) Gettysburg Majestic Quirky (4.5)
Venom (10/8/18) My introduction to Tom Hardy (4)
Smallfoot (10/1/18) Actually fell asleep.... (2)
A Simple Favor (9/18) Bizarrely fun (4.5)
BlackKklansmen (9/12/18) Sickening and brilliant (5)
Crazy Rich Asians (9/9/18) So much fun! (4.5)
Beautifully Broken (9/2/18) Making-a-difference tearjerker (4.5)
Ant Man and the Wasp (8/23/18) Really well cast (4)
Three Identical Strangers (8/17/18) Got darker and darker (3.5)
The Spy Who Dumped Me (8/12/18) So disappointing, funny in places (2.5)
Eighth Grade (8/6/18) Bleh (2)
Avengers: Infinity War (8/5/2018) Super fun (4.5)
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (7/23/18) Great Music and Scenery! (4)
Leave No Trace (7/15/18) Wowzer (5.5)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (7/5/18) Nothin' Special, but sorta fun (3)
First Reformed (6/21/18 yup, two in one day...) Bizarro (Unrateable at the moment)
Disobedience (6/21/18) Gay and Orthodox... (5)
The Rider (6/19/18) Amazing movie (6)
Tag (6/16/18) Lighthearted fun (3.5)

Oceans 8 (6/9/18) Entertaining! (4)
Deadpool 2 (5/19/18) Fuuuuuuny... (4)
Life of the Party (5/11/18) Laugh-out-loud funny (3.5)
Tully (5/8/18)  Unsettling (3)
I Feel Pretty (5/3/18) Fun, funny, charming with a message (3.5)

Ready Player One (4/5/18) Endless action near the end (3.5)
Sherlock Gnomes (3/29/18) Super Yuck (1)
A Wrinkle in Time (3/25/18) Not my vision at all (2.5)
Peter Rabbit (3/22/18) Surprisingly entertaining (3)
Love, Simon (3/19/18) A bit too picture perfect, but fun to watch (4)
Tomb Raider (3/16/18) Attention grabbing, for sure! (3)
Black Panther (3/11/18) Great set, costumes & sound (4.5)
Get Out (3/8/18) Bizarrre, creepy, wonderful fun (5)

Red Sparrow (3/5/18) Great Espionage piece (5.5)

Annihilation (3/1/18) Creepy SciFi (4)
Call Me by Your Name (2/24/18) Coming-of-age love story between two guys (5)
Phantom Thread (2/22/18) A little TOO quirky and odd...(2...3...4?)
Fifty Shades Freed (2/12/18) OMG, Jamie Dornan (3.5)
Maze Runner Part 3: The Death Cure (2/11/18) Entertaining, if nothing else (3)
Jumanji (2/2/18) A super fun movie (4)

Hostiles (1/25/28) Violent, sad, and one helluva movie (5.5)
The Shape of Water (1/22/18) An unforgettable story (6)

The Greatest Showman (1/20) A decent musical, great music (3.5)

3 Billboards Oustide Ebbing, Missouri (1/11/18) Talk about great acting, wow! (5.5)

Molly's Game (1-6-18) One smart movie (5)

WOW Movies of 2018

Bohemian Rhapsody (11/13/18) OMG - Amazing!  (5.5)
Leave No Trace (7/15/18) Wowzer (5.5)
The Rider (6/19/18) Amazing movie (6)
Red Sparrow (3/5/18) Great Espionage piece (5.5)
Hostiles (1/25/28) Violent, sad, and one helluva movie (5.5)
The Shape of Water (1/22/18) An unforgettable story (6)
3 Billboards Oustide Ebbing, Missouri (1/11/18) Talk about great acting, wow! (5.5)

REALLY GOOD Movies of 2018 (4.5 & 5)

Green Book (12/27/18 Mesmerizing story and acting (5)
Instant Family (12/18/18) Perfectly cast, funny and heartwarming (5)
Puzzle (10/16/18) Gettysburg Majestic Quirky (4.5)
A Simple Favor (9/18) Bizarrely fun (4.5)
BlackKklansmen (9/12/18) Sickening and brilliant (5)
Crazy Rich Asians (9/9/18) So much fun! (4.5)
Beautifully Broken (9/2/18) Making-a-difference tearjerker (4.5)
Avengers: Infinity War (8/5/2018) Super fun (4.5)
First Reformed (6/21/18 yup, two in one day...) Bizarro (Unrateable at the moment)
Disobedience (6/21/18) Gay and Orthodox... (5)
Black Panther (3/11/18) Great set, costumes & sound (4.5)
Get Out (3/8/18) Bizarrre, creepy, wonderful fun (5)
Call Me by Your Name (2/24/18) Coming-of-age love story between two guys (5)
Molly's Game (1-6-18) One smart movie (5)

Good/Fun Movies of 2018 (3, 3.5 &4)
The Girl in the Spider's Web (11/19/18) As improbable as it was enjoyable (3)
Venom (10/8/18) My introduction to Tom Hardy (4)
Ant Man and the Wasp (8/23/18) Really well cast (4)
Three Identical Strangers (8/17/18) Got darker and darker (3.5)
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (7/23/18) Great Music and Scenery! (4)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (7/5/18) Nothin' Special, but sorta fun (3)
Tag (6/16/18) Lighthearted fun (3.5)
Oceans 8 (6/9/18) Entertaining! (4)
Deadpool 2 (5/19/18) Fuuuuuuny... (4)
Life of the Party (5/11/18) Laugh-out-loud funny (3.5)
Tully (5/8/18)  Unsettling (3)
I Feel Pretty (5/3/18) Fun, funny, charming with a message (3.5)
Ready Player One (4/5/18) Endless action near the end (3.5)
Love, Simon (3/19/18) A bit too picture perfect, but fun to watch (4)
Tomb Raider (3/16/18) Attention grabbing, for sure! (3)
Annihilation (3/1/18) Creepy SciFi (4)
Phantom Thread (2/22/18) A little TOO quirky and odd...(2...3...4?)
Fifty Shades Freed (2/12/18) OMG, Jamie Dornan (3.5)
Jumanji (2/2/18) A super fun movie (4)
The Greatest Showman (1/20) A decent musical, great music (3.5)

Peter Rabbit (3/22/18) Surprisingly entertaining (3)
Maze Runner Part 3: The Death Cure (2/11/18) Entertaining, if nothing else (3)

Not-so-great Movies of 2018 (Mediocre & just plain didn't like)
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (12/15/18) A bit confusing and long (2.5)
Mortal Engines (12/14/18) Excruciatingly long (1.5)
The Bookshop (10/25/18) Crappy (1.5)
Smallfoot (10/1/18) Actually fell asleep.... (2)
The Spy Who Dumped Me (8/12/18) So disappointing, funny in places (2.5)
Eighth Grade (8/6/18) Bleh (2)
Sherlock Gnomes (3/29/18) Super Yuck (1)
A Wrinkle in Time (3/25/18) Not my vision at all (2.5)

5. Night Hunter by E. D. Ward

#1 Harry Circus - ME State Trooper
read on my iPhone
2017, Piscatuqua Press
208 pgs.
Adult Murder Mystery/Police Procedural
Finished 1/9/18
Goodreads rating: 3.5 - 2 ratings
My rating:  2
Setting: Downeast "Berryville," Maine, 1980's?

First line/s:  "The beat-up old Jeep Wagoneer labored to climb the hill that led to what the locals called 'The Bog' in the small town of Berryville, Maine."

My comments:  I was quite excited to read of this murder mystery set in Downeast Maine, but it was riddled with problems.  I DID like the story, and although it was written in a choppy, weird manner, I didn't really mind that part.  It was different, almost set out like an outline but the real "writing" never happened.  There were so many things for me to dislike.  In no particular order:  I never got a sense of where Downeast this took place.  There were mentions of Machias, and driving to Augusta and Bangor.  Yes, the blueberry bogs, but nothing to give me a picture of the setting.  Disappointing.  There was nowhere near enough information about each of the "main" characters.  Pat and Marge were completely fascinating, and I would have read a book about just them.  But.....how old were they?  Other than their standard outfits, what did they look like?  They had no income and lived on poached meat, but how did they buy all the rifle shells, beer, and tobacco?  Very exasperating:  every character, when speaking to another (and there was a lot of dialogue) said the other person's name.  Every time.  Constantly.  Ugh! And now to Harry Circus himself.  That is a HORRIBLE surname for a protagonist.  HORRIBLE!  We actually know very little about him.  He is obsessed with keeping his wife, Annie, happy, and is overly lovey dovey with her.  Too much of that, yuck.  Unneeded.  How old are they? They were friends with the murdered banker?  How?  Were they close in age?  He loves to drive fast.  He has a bit of compassion in him, but is frequently unkind to others, especially his subordinates.  He drinks a lot of coffee, as does everyone we encounter in this book. 

All in all, this book is a good outline for a better book.  A first attempt outline.  I'm surprised that it actually has been printed in book and Kindle format.  There's a second installment already available, Across the Singing Bridge.  I actually think I'm going to read it to see if Marge and Pat return.  It has no reviews on Goodreads.  None.  What am I in for?

Goodreads synopsis: E.D. Ward’s first novel in the Harry Circus mystery series is a story of unforgettable suspense from the dramatic opening to the bloody finish. In rural Down East Maine, a seasoned State Trooper, Harry Circus, is driven to solve the most gruesome murder he’s ever investigated. The body of Lester Sawyer, local banker and good friend of Harry’s, is found disemboweled and partially skinned on the remote blueberry barrens, north of the small town of Berryville. 
Tension mounts as Harry, with the help of his counterpart, Constable Ralph Bailey, follows the scent of the murderer to the brutal end where he discovers the long-kept secret of a mother and daughter.  NOTE FROM MUDDY PUDDLE:  This last line is not at all correct!

4. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

read on my iPhone
2017 Dutton Books for Young Readers
290 pgs.
YA/CRF
Finished 1/8/18
Goodreads rating: 4.14 - 66,158 ratings
My rating: 5
Setting: contemporary Indianapolis, IN

First line/s:  "I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time -- between 12:37 p.m. and 1:14 p.m. -- by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn't even begin to identify them."

My comments:  What makes a book "good?"  What is it in a story that leaves you feeling that you just read something really special?  It doesn't happen very often, but when it does, you know it, you feel it.You overlook some of the little things that don't work  for you.   Turtles All the Way Down taught me many lessons.  As hard as I try to empathize with people with mental illnesses, I have to admit that those are some of the many, many times in my life that I'm uncomfortable.  It's books like this one that give you unprecedented insight into what goes on in a mind that's slightly awry.  And Aza's mind is more than a little slightly awry.  This was an incredibly powerful book for me.  Great storytelling.  Great character building.  Great relationships, particularly Aza and Daisy's relationship, best friends forever (as dumb as that may sound) and Aza and her mom's relationship, which makes me look back upon my relationship with my mom, and with my kids.  And I'm so impressed that John Green can write the character of a female protagonist  with such assurance. fI was impressed, inspired, and completely saddened by this work of art.

Goodreads synopsis: #1 bestselling author John Green returns with his first new novel since The Fault in Our Stars!
          Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett’s son, Davis.
          Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. 
          In his long-awaited return, John Green, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, shares Aza’s story with shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship.

3. Warcross by Marie Lu

Warcross #1
listened to on Audible
2017 G. P. Putnam Sons
368 pgs.
YA Fantasy
Finished 1/7/18
Goodreads rating: 4.23 - 18,711 ratings
My rating: 3
Setting: NYC and Tokyo in the somewhat-foreseeable future

First line/s:  "It's too damn cold of a day to be out on a hunt."

My comments: Well.  Many people have compared this to Ready Player One, but that is definitely not a comparison I'd use.  I liked Ready Player One lots more, and I rated it 3.5.  So why am I left feeling flat?  I very much like the protagonist: super smart, thoughtful, cute and tiny.  Sure of herself.  We discover that she's an incredible hacker, but other than something she herself seems surprised to have done, it's very hard to believe from the little she reveals about how she got where she is.  Little stories, but not enough for me to be a believer.  And there are very few surprises.  I had guessed early on who the mysterious "bad guy" was.  I was also able to surmise who the one bounty hunter who was revealed was.  And this was one of those audio readers that I didn't enjoy.  She stressed different words in a sentence than I would have stressed if reading it myself.  I didn't like the accents she gave people, or the femininity of her voice for all the characters.  It just didn't really work for me.  Perhaps if I'd read it instead of listening to it?  Might take my rating up a half point....

Goodreads synopsis: For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game—it’s a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on the game illegally. But the bounty hunting world is a competitive one, and survival has not been easy. Needing to make some quick cash, Emika takes a risk and hacks into the opening game of the international Warcross Championships—only to accidentally glitch herself into the action and become an overnight sensation.
          Convinced she’s going to be arrested, Emika is shocked when instead she gets a call from the game’s creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka, with an irresistible offer. He needs a spy on the inside of this year’s tournament in order to uncover a security problem . . . and he wants Emika for the job. With no time to lose, Emika’s whisked off to Tokyo and thrust into a world of fame and fortune that she’s only dreamed of. But soon her investigation uncovers a sinister plot, with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire.

MOVIE - Molly's Game

R (2:10)

Wide release 1/5/18

Viewed Saturday, January 6, 2018 at AMC Camp Hill
IMBd: 

RT Critic: 82   Audience:  88
Critic's Consensus:  Powered by an intriguing story and a pair of outstanding performances from Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba, Molly's Game marks a solid debut for writer-director Aaron Sorkin.

Cag: 5/Loved it

Directed by Aaron Sorkin

STXfilms

Based on the book by Molly Bloom

Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner

My comments:  So many reasons why I loved this movie.  It was SMART.  Smart people, smart dialogue.  It was looooooong, but moved quickly.  Jessica Chastain was superb. It's a true story, based on Molly Bloom's book.  It flashes back and forth effortlessly, without getting confusing at all.  Fantastic storytelling.  Just fantastic.  We need more like this!

RT/ IMDb Summary:  MOLLY'S GAME is based on the true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents wielding automatic weapons. Her players included Hollywood royalty, sports stars, business titans and finally, unbeknownst to her, the Russian mob. Her only ally was her criminal defense lawyer Charlie Jaffey, who learned that there was much more to Molly than the tabloids led us to believe.

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Abigail Delacruz

2. Amina's Voice by Hena Khan

read on my iPhone
copyright info
197 pgs.
Middle Grade CRF, Cultural information
Finished 1/5/18
Goodreads rating: 4.06 - 2133 ratings
My rating:  3
Setting:  contemporary Milwaukee, WI

First line/s:  "Something sharp pokes me in the rib.  "You should really sign up for a solo," Soojin whispers from the seat behind me in music class.

My comments:  This was a quiet, lovely book about a very sweet girl and her family.  I loved all the Pakistani-American information, as well as all the went along with Amina's best friend, Soojin's, citizenship. I'm not even sure why I'm not jumping up and down about it.  There were no surprises, everything worked out well, and there were a lot of stereotypical situations (bullying, jealousy, sibling relationships) .  It wasn't a deep book, it scratched the surface, and will be a nice read for many middle grade girls.

Goodreads synopsis: Amina has never been comfortable in the spotlight. She is happy just hanging out with her best friend, Soojin. Except now that she’s in middle school everything feels different. Soojin is suddenly hanging out with Emily, one of the “cool” girls in the class, and even talking about changing her name to something more “American.” Does Amina need to start changing too? Or hiding who she is to fit in? While Amina grapples with these questions, she is devastated when her local mosque is vandalized. 

Keeping Track of My Book-Buying

January, 2020
Big Lies in a Small Town (Chamberlain) Audible-Credit
Conviction (Dahl) Audible-Credit
Freefall (Barry Audible-Credit
The Poison Garden (Marwood) Audible-Credit
The Round House (Edrich) Audible -6
Book Woman of Troublesome Creek Audible-6
Murder Board (Shea) K-2
The Consultant (O'Connor) Audible Credit
Murder in the Woods (Ickes) K-4

December, 2019
Roam (Armstrong)  K-1
Lost Hills (#1 Eve Ronin) (Goldberg) K free
Places No One Knows CHIRP-5
The Distance from A to Z K-2
Boss Who Stole Christmas Aud-4
Enders (#2) Aud-Cr
House at Sea's End - Griffiths Audio free?

November, 2019
There's Something About Sweetie (Menon) CHIRP
Polar Vortex Aud-4
A Fatal Obsession (#6 McCabe & Savage) K-4
Blood Relations (Moore) Audio Cr
Bury the Dead in Driftwood (#6 Garrison Gage) Aud-Cr
Name of the Devil (#2 Jessica Blackwood) Aud-Cr
Night Fire (Connelly) Aud-Cr
Dark Pattern (#4 Nturalist) Aud-Cr
The Child Finder Aud-Cr
Stay Hidden (#9 Mike Bowditch) Aud-Cr
Nine Elms K-free
The Toll (Shusterman) Aud-Cr (Returned??)


October, 2019
Bloody Genius Aud-Cr
Alien's Mail Order Bride K-1
The Life We Bury (Eskins) - CHIRP
Insignificant Events in the LIfe of a Cactus (Bowling)
The Downstairs Girl CHIRP
The Wish (Davids) CHIRP
Angel's Burning (O'Dell) CHIRP

September, 2019
The Fourth Monkey (2nd purchase) Aud 8
Lighthouse for the Lonely Heart Aud-Cr
Runaway (Coben) Aud - 4

August, 2019
Wally Roux, Quantum Mechanic (Carr) Aud-free
The Beantown Girls (Healey) Aud-4
Never Have I Ever (Jackson) Aud-Cr
The Time Collector: A Novel (Womack) K-4 (Aud +7.49)
Hermit's Peak #4 - ret'd, it was abridged
Going Cardboard (for Quest Badge)
Dead or Alive (#12 Kerney) (McGarrity) K-1
The Ghost Manuscript (Frieswick) Chirp
A Borrowing of Bones (Munier) Chirp
Brain on Fire (Cahalen) Chirp
The Shaker Murders (Kuhns) Chirp
Stillborn Armadillos (Russell) Chirp
Northanger Abbey *Austen) Chirp
Blonde Hair Blue Eyes (Slaughter) Chirp
The Dovekeepers (Hoffman) Chirp
Vanishing Girls (#1 Josie Quinn) K&Aud-12
I am Pilgrim: A Thriller Aud - 5
A Court of Thorns & Roses (Mass) Aud - 5
The Others (Robinson) Aud - 5
Reasonable Doubt: Complete Series (Whitney G.) Aud - 5
Ellie & The Harpmaker (Priss) K-14
Dear Lily (Drew Davies) K-4
The Unhoneymooners (Christina Lauren) K-9

July, 2019
Shamed (#11 Kate Burkholder) Aud-Credit
Collision (#3 Phobos) (Dixen) Book - 12
All Systems Red (Wells) Chirp
Rabid (#8.5 Bowditch) AUD - 2
Keep Her Safe (Tucker) Aud - 5

June, 2019
LIFEL1K3 (Kristoff) K-2
Distortion ((#2 Phobos) (Dixen) Book - 12
Ellie Dwyer's Great Escape (Winger) K-1
Recursion (Crouch) Audible Credit
Dangerous in a Kilt (Durand) Chirp-2
The Line Between (Lee) Chirp - 3
Sotah (Ragen) K-8
The Anatomical Shape of a Heart (Jenn Bennett) K-3
When the Forest Meets the Stars (Vanderah) K-2 and Audio-2
The Body Keeper (#3 Jude Fontaine) (Frasier) Audio-10
Machine City (#2Det. Barnes) (Holliday) Audio-10
In Plain Sight (#10.5 Kate Burkholder) (Castillo) Audio - 4
The Many-Colored Land (May) Chirp

May, 2019
Tamed by the Beast (Goodwin) Chirp
Ascension (#1 Phobos) (Dixen)  Book - 5
Heir to Thorns and Steel (Hogarth) Chirp
The Curiosity (Kiernan) Chirp
Sadie (Summers) K-3
Thin Air (#1 Jessica Shaw) K-free
Truth and Lies (DI Amy Winter #1) (Mitchell) Audio-2 and K-2
Fallen Mountain (Grant) K-1

April, 2019
Hush Hush (Fitzpatrick) Chirp
The Shunning (Lewis)
Open Season (Howard) Chirp
Maneuver (Bliss) Chirp
The Bookshop on the Corner (Colgan) Chirp
The Wife (Burke) Audio-3
Three Mages and a Margarita (The Guild Codes #1 Spellbound) (Marie) Audio-3
Don't Even Breathe (Houghton) Audio-2 and Kindle -4
Spider Woman's Daughter (Hillerman) Audio - 14 (already have Kindle)
City of Veils (Princess Vigilante #1) (Evans) Kindle - 3
An Easy Death (Harris) Audible 4
Thornyhold (Stewart) Kindle 3
The Phantom Tree Kindle 3
One Plus One (Moyes) Kindle 3 and Audio - 9
Hard Country (Kerney Family #1) Kindle 1
A Brilliant Death Kindle 2
Mayan Star (Allan) Kindle 1
Field Notes on Love (Smith) Audible 10
The Stranger Diaries (Griffith) Audible Credit

March, 2019
Hello Universe (Kelly) Audible 5
Beautiful Stranger (Lauren) Audible 5
Thunderhead (Scythe #2) (Shusterman)Audible 5
Where'd You Go Bernadette (Semple) Audible 5
Skyward (Sanderson) Audible credit
This Fallen Prey (#3 Rockton) Audible credit
On the Island (Graves) Audible 8 and Kindle 2

February, 2019
A Shroud of Tattered Sails (#4 Garrison Gage) Audible 14
Where the Crawdads Sing Audible credit
Sovereign Audible free
Lucky Shot Audible free
The Au Pair Audible Credit
Driven to Distraction (Road to Love #1) Kindle 2
Murder Theory (#3 Theo Cray) Audio 2 Kindle promo 0
Cornerstone (#1) Kindle 0
Trail of Lightning Audio 3

January, 2019
An Anonymous Girl Audio CREDIT
Run You Down (#2 Rebekah Roberts) Kindle 11
Exotic Stories for Punjabi Widows Kindle 2 Audio
Home Fire: A Novel (Shamsie) Kindle 2
Unbroken Threads (Klepper) Kindle 1
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley (Tinti) Kindle 2
INK: A Love Story on 7th & Main (Hunter) KIndle 5
Toxic (Kang) Kindle 1

December, 2018
Midnighters #2 (Hart) Kindle 3
Rule Breaker (Carmine) Kindle - 4
Roomies (Lauren) AUDIO Credit
We are Omega (#1) (Woolley) Kindle - 4

November, 2018
Midnight Rose (Hart) Kindle - free
Scythe (Shusterman) AUDIO
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) AUDIO
IQ (Ide) AUDIO   RETurNED
Force of Nature (Harper) AUDIO
Onyx and Ivory (Arnett) Kindle
Little Comfort (Hester Thursby #1) Kindle
Theory of Bastards (Schulman) Kindle
Dream Thieves (#2 Raven Chronicles) Kindle

September, 2018
Luminaries (Man Booker Prize) -Kindle - 3
Finding Colin Furth: A Novel (March) Kindle - 2
Winterkill (Joe Pickett #3) (Box) Kindle
Grandma Gatewood's Walk (Montgomery) Kindle
Restart (Korman) Kindle - 3
Station Breaker (Mayne) - Kindle - 4 RETURNED
Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (lee) Kindlen DNF
Cave of Bones (Leaporn/Chee) Hillerman - Kindle

August, 2018
Marsh King's Daughter (Dionne) - Kindle
Perfekt Order (Bende) - Kindle
The Storyteller's Secret (Badani) Kindle - Kindle - free DNF
In Dark Company (Castillo) Short Story - Kindle - 2
The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster (Wilbanks) Kindle-3
Daemon (Suarez) Kindle-2
Conjure (Hoodoo Apprentice) (Nolan) Kindle - Kindle - free
Spectre Black (#3 Cyril Landry) (Black) Kindle & AUDIBLE - 7
A Road Unknown (#1 Amish Roads) (Cameron) Kindle - 9
The Woman Left Behind (Howard) Kindle - 2

July, 2018
The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom (Thorpe) Kindl-3
Among the Shadows (Det. John Byron) (Coffin) Kindle - 1
The Book of Speculation (Swyler) Kindle-3
Moloka'i: A Novel (Brennert) Kindle-3
You Go First (Kelly) Kindle - 2
Stay Dead (Elise Sandberg Savannah #2) have Kindle, AUDIBLE--2
Need to Know : A Novel (Cleveland) Kindle - 3
The Bear Trap (Doiron/Bowditch) Short Story Kindle-0
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing (Jacob) Kindle-2
White River Burning (Verdon) AUDIBLE--Credit
A Gathering of Secrets (Castillo) AUDIBLE- - Credit
Force of Nature (#2 Aaron Falk) (Harper) Kindle - 3
Nyxia (#1 Nyxia) (Reintgen) Kindle - 2
Weight of Ink (Kadish) Kindle - 3
Scorched: A Dry Earth Story Kindle - free
Tell No One (Coben) Kindle - 2
Only the Lucky (#8.5 Kate Burkholder) (Castillo) Kindle - 2
Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel (Holt/MidGr) Kindle - 6
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Joyce) Kindle - 2
Fields of Corn: An Amish Christian Romance (Price) Kindle - 1
The King Tides (Lancaster & Daniels #1) Swain Kindle/Amazon Free July pick

June, 2018
Inlaws and Outlaws (Fullford) Kindle - 6
A Closed and Common Orbit (#2 Wayfarers) (Chambers) AUDIBLE-Credit
A Place for Us (Mirza) AUDIBLE-Credit
Nice Try, Jane Sinner (Oelke) Kindle-2
Looking Glass (#2 Naturalist) (Mayne) Kindle-2 and Audible-2
The One (Marrs) Kindle-2
Book of M (Shepherd) AUDIBLE-Credit
Invisible City (Dahl) AUDIBLE-4
Essex Serpent (Perry) AUDIBLE-7   RETURNED
Last Equation of Isaac Severy (Jacobs) Kindle-3
Helsinki White (#3 Insp. Vaara) (Thompson) Kindle-2
The Death of Mrs. Westingham (Ware) Kindle-14
Zeroes (Wendig) Kindle-2
Wild Bird (VanDraanen) Kindle-12
Allusion (Hyldahl) Kindle-2
The Blinds (Sternbergh) Kindle-1
Glory in Death (#2 Eve Dallas) AUDIBLE-Credit

May, 2018
Dark Matter (Crouch) Kindle - 4
The Kurdish Bike (Lightbourne) Kindle-11
Secrets of Worry Dolls Kindle - 1
Eyes of Ember (Imdalind #2 Kindle - 4
Illuminae (Kaufman) Kindle - 2
The Hunt for the Dingo (James and Sanderson #1) (Nash) Kindle - 0
Kiss of Fire (Imdalind #1) Kindle - 0
Pretty Girls: A Novel (Slaughter) Kindle-3
All the Beautiful Lies: A Novel (Swanson) Kindle - 4
A Darkness Absolute (#2 Casey Donovan) (Armstrong) Kindle - 11
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Berendt) Audible - 16

April, 2018
Weight of Ink Audible Credit
Spider Woman's Daughter (Leaphorn & Chee #19) Hillerman Kindle-2
The Astonishing Color of After Kindle - 3
City of the Lost (Armstrong) AUDIBLE Credit
Tenth of December (Saunders) Kindle - 3
The Wedding Date Kindle - 13
If I Ever Get Out of Here (Gansworth) Kindle-2

March, 2018
Someone Else's Love Story (Jackson) Audible Credit
Dead Letters (Dolan-Leach) K-2
Don't Let Go (Coben) Audible-3
Neverwhere (Gaiman) Kindle-3
No Turning Back (reissued oldie) (Bush, Nancy) Kindle - 2
Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Chambers) "sci fi masterpiece" Kindle-3
Blindsighted (#1) (Slaughter) Kindle-2
Women in the Castle (Shattuck) Audible 4
The Debt Collector (Mills) Kindle- free
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Honeyman) Kindle-14

February, 2018
Red Rising (Brown) Audible-6
Huntress Moon (FBI#1) Kindle-2
Unwind (#1) (Shusterman) Audible-6
Naked in Death (#1) (Robb) Audible-5
The Missing Ones (Lottie Parker #1) (Bibney) Audible-5
An Ember in the Ashes (Tahir) Kindle-3
West Cork (Sam Bungey) Audible 0?
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague (Brooks) Kindle-2
The Drowned Girls (Angie Pellorino #1) (White) Kindle - 2
Fodor's In Focus Savannah - Kindle-2
Bone Music (Burning Girl #1) (Christopher Rice) Kindle-freeAmazon

January, 2018: (Purchased 3 extra Audible credits at the end of the month)
The Demon Crown (A Sigma Force Novel) (James Rollins) Kindle-5
Outlander (Gabaldon) Audible Credit
In the Land of Milk and Honey (Eliz. Harris #2) (Jensen) Audible Credit
The Ritual Bath (Decker & Lazarus #1) (Kellerman) Kindle-2
Truly Devious (Johnson) Audible Credit
The Disappearances (Murphy) Kindle-3
The Naturalist (#1) (Mayne) Kindle-2
Night Hunter (Harry Circus #1) (Ward) Kindle-1  (2)
Punishment (Det. Barnes #1) (Holliday) Kindle-freeAmazon
The Chalk Man (Tudor) Audible Credit
Turtles All the Way Down (Green) Kindle-12 (5)
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle (Connor) Kindle-11
Almost Sisters (Jackson) Audible Credit

December, 2017:
Amina's Voice (Khan) Kindle-12 (3)
When Dimple Met Rishi (Menon) Kindle-12 (3)
Mean Streak (Brown) Kindle - 4
The Homecoming (Russell) Audible-4

November, 2017:
Warcross (Lu) Audible Credit (3)
The Nest (Sweeney) Kindle-2
A Merciful Truth (Mercy Kirkpatrick #2) (Elliot) Kindle-2
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore (Sullivan) Audible-14 (4.5)

October, 2017:
The Forgers (Morrow) Kindle-3
The Lying Planet (Riggs) Kindle-3 (4.5)
The Nightingale (Hannah) Kindle-2
A Hard Man to Forget (Ames) Kindle - 1 (3)
Untamed #1 (Dyer) Kindle - 2 (1)
Wife 22 (Gideon) Kindle - 1
The Promise (Crais) Kindle-2  (5)

September, 2017:
Illusive (Lloyd-Jones) Kindle-10
Broken Skies (Kay) Kindle-0
Fire Queen (Hundredth Queen #2) (King) Audible Credit
Angel's Tip (Burke) Audible-2
Prodigy (Legend #2) (Lu) Audible Credit
Hokee Wolf (Viehueg) Kindle-0
Magpie Murders (Horowitz) Kindle-3
Artifacts of Death (#1) (Curtin) Kindle-1
The Color of Our Sky (Trasi) Kindle -2
The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr (Maynard) Kindle-2 (5)
Harm None (Davis & West #1) Kindle-0
Consider (Holo #1) (Acevedo) Kindle-2
Hangman (Lazarus/Decker #19) Kindle-2
The Late Show (Connelly) Audible Credit  (4)
Trail of Broken Wings (Badani) Audible-2 (4)
The Running Dream (Van Draanen) Kindle-2
Trail of Broken Wings (Badani) Kindle-2 (4)
A Beautiful Work in Progress (Valerio) Kindle-0

August, 2017:
The Lovely, Wicked Rain (Garrison Gage #3) Audible-15
The Girl on the Bridge (McCAbe & Savage) Audible Credit (3)
The Fire Queen (Hundredth Queen #2) Kindle-5
The Fourth Monkey (Barker) Kindle-2 (4.5/5)
The Girl in Green (Miller) Kindle-4 (5)
Cold Dish (Longmire) (Johnson) Kindle-5
Lost Girls (Kim Stone #3) Kindle-4 (4)

July, 2017:
Down A Dark Road (Burkholder) (Castillo) Audible Credit (2.5)
Zenn Diagram (Brandt) Kindle-4 (3.5)

June, 2017:
Fallout (V.I. Warshawski) (Paretsky) Kindle-3
This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity) Kindle-3 (3)
Posted (Anderson) Kindle - 11 (4)
The Alice Network (Quinn) Audible Credit DNF
Princess Cora and the Crocodile (Schlitz) Audible-2
Outage (#1) Kindle-2 (3.5)
The Perfect Stranger (Miranda) Kindle-3
Crime on the Fens (#1) (Ellis) Audible-3

May, 2017:
The Boy from Reactor 4 (Stelmac) Kindle-1DNF Tried Twice
Tin God (#1) (Green) Kindle-0
Juliet: A Novel (Fortier) Kindle-2
Hades (Archer & Bennett) (Fox) Kindle-3
The Plantation (#1) (Kuzneski) Audible Credit - RETURNED & REFUNDED (2)
Escape Clause (Flowers #9) Audible Credit (4.5)
The Hate U Give (Thomas) Kindle-11 (5)
The Hundredth Queen (King) Kindle-0 (4)

April, 2017:
Hard Return (Cyril Landry #2) Audible-6
A Desperate Place for Dying (Gage #2) Audible-11 (4.5)
Seeds of Deception (Burkholder Short Story) Audible-6 (2)
Bellamy & the Brute (Michaels) Kindle-1 (2)
News of the World (Gardiner) Audible-2
The Searcher (Solomon Creed) Kindle-2
The Dark Room (Moore) Audible-14 (5)
In the Woods (French) Audible Credit

March, 2017:
Openly Straight (Konigsberg) Audible-4
Openly Straight (Konigsberg) Kindle-1
Age of Order (#1) (North) Kindle-1 (3.5)
Outcast (Kress) Kindle-1
Mrs. Dalloway (Wolff) Audible-3
Rewinder (Battles) Audible-2 (5)
Rewinder (Battles) Kindle-1 (5)
In the Woods (French) Kindle-2
Serpent King (Zentner) Kindle-3 (5)
Strip (Perry) Audible-4
Still Life (#1) (Louise Penny) Audible Credit (3)
Secret Lives of People in Love: Stories (VanBooy) Kindle-2
Sundown on Top of the World (#4, read any order) (Donald) Kindle-0
Lyrebird Hill (Romer) Audible-5 (4.5)
Cut to the Bone (Bass) Kindle-1
The Secret Wife (Paul) Kindle-1
Eyes of the Innocent (Carter Ross #2) (Parks) Audible Credit
That Darkness (Black) Kindle-3

February, 2017:
Clockwork Angel #1 (Clare) Audible-7
Legend (#1) (Lu) Audible-5 (5)
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Grabenstein) Audible-5
Kingdom Come (Eliz. Harris #1) Audible-5 (4.5)
Jar City (Indridason) Audible -4
Open Season (Joe Pickett) Audible-5
American Street (Zoboi) Kindle-10 (2 & 4)
Under the Never Sky (Rossi) Kindle-2
The Buried Book (Pulley) Audible-2 (4.5)
Immoral (Freeman) Audible-5 (3.9)
Half Broken Things (Joss) Kindle-2
The Rest of Us Just Live Here (Ness) Kindle-2
The Leaving of Things (Antani) Kindle -2 (4)
A Moment on the Edge - 100 years of Crime Stories by Women (George) Kindle-1

January, 2017:
Midnighters #1 (Westerfeld) Kindle - 2
In the Shadow of Lakecrest (Blackwell) Kindle-0 (1)
The Butterfly Garden (Hutchison) Kindle-2
Passenger (#1) (Bracken) Kindle-1  (2.5)
Livia Lone (#1) (Eisler) Kindle-2
A String of Beads (Jane Whitefield #8) Perry Kindle-2