Reading Thread/Goals for 2025

[Wood Nymph]

34 - The Last Juror - by John Grisham - 3.5/5

This is not a typical lawyer story from John Grisham. The main character owns a newspaper in a small, rural town in Mississippi. The time period is the 70's. It contains a murder and a trial, but it is more about the people and the changes that happened in the 70's.

I liked the characters, the plot, and the story. The pace of it could have been a little better, though.

 

[OKW8297]

28. The First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

 

[willowsnn3]

#29 Bear Tooth by Callan Wink
Two brothers in dire straits, living on the edge of Yellowstone, agree to a desperate act of survival.
In an aging timber house hand-built into the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains, two brothers are struggling to keep up with their debts. They live off the grid on the fringe of Yellowstone, surviving after the death of their father. Thad, the elder, is more capable of engaging with things like the truck registration and the medical bills from their father’s fatal illness and the tax lien on the cabin their grandfather built, while Hazen is... different, more instinctual, deeply attuned to the natural world. Desperate for money, they are approached by a shadowy out-of-towner with a proposition and agree to attempt a heist of natural resources from Yellowstone, a federal crime.

Interesting at times but struggled to finish it only to find one of those endings that.....just end.