Natalie Riley

I love to read and hang out with my dog. I blog about it at A Book and A Dog.

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Happy Easter weekend! Nikolette and I are delighted to welcome the spring weather. It’s the perfect time to move our reading space outside! 🌷🐣🪻🐇☀️

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@irishjoeld It has! It stirs up wonderful (mostly) feelings of nostalgia. 😊

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I’ve admired John Douglas’s work as a criminal profiler with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit through his true crime books. This book recounts the story of John Robinson, one of America’s first known internet serial killers.

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@goodreads These interesting stories will be keeping me entertained this weekend.

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@irishjoeld Oh, absolutely! It’s great work that he’s done, and extremely heavy. Not for everyone and not always the right time.

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Alex Honnold’s memoir, Alone on the Wall, chronicles his daring ascents of Moonlight Buttress in Zion, Half Dome in Yosemite, and his groundbreaking 2017 free solo of El Capitan. It also explores Alex’s personal life.

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Full Review https://t.co/jd8OJDINil

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@goodreads The Foursome by Christina Baker Kline 🩷

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Jim Hutton was Freddie Mercury's partner for 6 years, and this memoir is his tender, candid look at their life together. I very much enjoyed Mercury and Me, despite the terribly sad ending.

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Peter Swanson's The Kind Worth Saving delivers twisty suspense & morally complex characters. A solid follow-up to The Kind Worth Killing — not quite as good as the original, but still a fun, entertaining ride.

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Joan Halifax, a Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, and activist, explores compassion, insight, and reconnection with the Earth through her experiences with indigenous peoples and spiritual traditions.

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Full Review https://t.co/3DZ8pFZzM3

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@cluckingduck170 The movie was good. I’m sure the book is better. I’ll have to read it sometime. 😀

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I’ve been intrigued by Patricia Cornwell’s books for ages. A Goodreads Challenge finally pushed me to read the first book, Postmortem. It was a perfect fit for my interests as a serial murder mystery read like a true crime novel.

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Full Review https://t.co/nlvXN6XIqS

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Almost to the end of Sue Grafton’s Alphabet series! I feel a bit torn about this one. I loved many of the familiar elements I’ve come to cherish in the series. Unfortunately, the dual storylines became confusing for me.

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Full Review https://t.co/Wha6vYJGb0

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@cluckingduck170 I actually haven’t read the book. I saw the movie a long time ago.

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@goodreads Thich Nhat Hanh’s Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
The View from Half Dome by Jill Caugherty
Peter Swanson’s The Kind Worth Saving

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The Restoration Garden by Sara Blaydes is a dual-timeline historical fiction that weaves between present-day garden restoration at a crumbling English manor and a young woman's life in WWII London. A beautiful, yet suspenseful read.

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Full Review https://t.co/SnWCVluFnw

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@laurajean591 @goodreads Thanks!

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My first Barbara Kingsolver novel and what an introduction. Demon Copperhead follows a boy from birth to adulthood through poverty, foster care, and addiction. Gritty, unforgettable, full of empathy for Appalachia.

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Full Review https://t.co/P4nUJcMz99

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Allen Eskens' The Deep Dark Descending — a detective, the truth about his wife's death, and a thirst for revenge. Converging timelines, moral complexity, a wintry setting. Fast-paced and emotional.

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I reread Stephen King’s Dreamcatcher for the Constant Reader book club. It doesn’t hold up well on a reread. I found much of the context repetitive, and my interest in the storyline frequently wavered.

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Full Review https://t.co/94QV9LckBM