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17. Still reading Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 04:47 PM
Nov 2021

by Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat, but am almost finished. I recommend this work to anyone who is interested in the history of this period and is a great family story.

Not really sure where I'm headed next, but I think it will be S. A. Cosby's book, Blacktop Wasteland.

A husband, a father, a son, a business owner...And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi.

Beauregard “Bug” Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hard-working dad. Bug knows there’s no future in the man he used to be: known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best wheelman on the East Coast.

He thought he'd left all that behind him, but as his carefully built new life begins to crumble, he finds himself drawn inexorably back into a world of blood and bullets. When a smooth-talking former associate comes calling with a can't-miss jewelry store heist, Bug feels he has no choice but to get back in the driver's seat. And Bug is at his best where the scent of gasoline mixes with the smell of fear.

Haunted by the ghost of who he used to be and the father who disappeared when he needed him most, Bug must find a way to navigate this blacktop wasteland...or die trying.

Like Ocean’s Eleven meets Drive, with a Southern noir twist, S. A. Cosby’s Blacktop Wasteland is a searing, operatic story of a man pushed to his limits by poverty, race, and his own former life of crime.


Thanks, hermetic, for hosting the weekly thread. I always look forward to reading it, even though I don't always post. With new foster kittens, I am not getting a lot of reading done. The new ones are pitifully underweight, sickly, and not very sociable. Poor little critters.
"Elsey Come Home" bif Nov 2021 #1
Any good? hermetic Nov 2021 #2
I'm just about to start it. bif Nov 2021 #11
Clap When You Land MontanaMama Nov 2021 #3
Fascinating! hermetic Nov 2021 #5
All's good here...or, as you said MontanaMama Nov 2021 #15
Yay! hermetic Nov 2021 #16
About to start the latest Michael Connelly, rzemanfl Nov 2021 #4
Lucky you! hermetic Nov 2021 #6
Sorry about the misspelling which I just caught and corrected. n/t rzemanfl Nov 2021 #7
Didn't even notice hermetic Nov 2021 #9
Dayum! hermetic Nov 2021 #8
How many copies? I was #19 on 23 copies but placed the hold long before the publication date. n/t rzemanfl Nov 2021 #10
2 hermetic Nov 2021 #12
Smart enough to know good writers it seems. rzemanfl Nov 2021 #21
I was actually referring to hermetic Nov 2021 #22
Five thousand three hundred 1980's dollars typewriters. n/t rzemanfl Nov 2021 #23
still running long cons with The Sisterhood. yellowdogintexas Nov 2021 #13
Good for you hermetic Nov 2021 #14
Still reading Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz japple Nov 2021 #17
Aww, newbies hermetic Nov 2021 #18
"Consequences" by R.C. Bridgestock The King of Prussia Nov 2021 #19
I like PD James hermetic Nov 2021 #20
SuperGrow: Essays and Reports on Imagination in America dandrews Nov 2021 #24
Hope you are enjoying the tour around the site BumRushDaShow Nov 2021 #25
Welcome to DU! hermetic Nov 2021 #26
I finished two mysteries by Dervla McTiernan iemanja Nov 2021 #27
Dervla McTiernan hermetic Nov 2021 #28
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