just finished:Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss,very good

just finished:The Price of Salt,by Patricia Highsmith,really great

The Paris Style Guide - Elodie Rambaud is very good

The night she disappeared by April Henry ,put on reserve at NYPL

Maestra by L.S.Hilton is terrifying

The Electric Pencil: Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3 Paperback – March 29, 2016 by James Edward Deeds Jr.on reserve at NYPL

KALASHNIKOV RIFLE GUNFIGHTING: Trigger Management

just finished: Forty Thieves by Richard Perry "The tips you learn in a Perry novel are priceless: how to climb a staircase without making a sound" from NY Times

Reading:Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon "He is wearing cargo pants in a camo print whose color scheme is intended for some combat zone very remote, if not off-planet, and a T-shirt announcing, in Helvetica",(NY Times)

Pretentiousness : why it matters by Dan Fox,sounds great!

Pretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that's making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone else. It's an essential ingredient in pop music and high art. Why do we choose accusations of elitism over open-mindedness? What do our anxieties about "pretending" say about us? Co-editor of Frieze, Europe's foremost magazine of contemporary art and culture, Dan Fox has authored over two hundred essays, interviews, and reviews, contributed to numerous catalogues and publications produced by major international art galleries and institutions"-- Provided by publisher.

American Monarchy Party: The Regional Office Is Under Attack! by Manuel Gon...

American Monarchy Party: The Regional Office Is Under Attack! by Manuel Gon...: Booklist Reviews 2016 April #2 *Starred Review* You might want to get a firm grip on your socks before cracking open this one; otherwis...

The Regional Office Is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales,sounds great! "a brilliant genre-blender"

Booklist Reviews 2016 April #2

*Starred Review* You might want to get a firm grip on your socks before cracking open this one; otherwise, Gonzales is likely to knock them off. It's very difficult to categorize this mind-bending novel. Is it comedy? Science fiction? Thriller? Spoof? Whatever it is, it's pure excitement. The story involves a shadowy organization called the Regional Office, described by its mission statement as "a barrier of last resort between the survival of the Planet and the amassing forces of Darkness"; as the book opens, the Regional Office is being attacked by those very forces. As the mayhem progresses, the focus zooms in on two women: Rose, who's leading the attack, and Sarah, who's fighting for her life defending the Regional Office (even as her colleagues are dying around her). The story jumps back and forth in time, showing us how Rose and Sarah became the women they are today: Rose is a trained assassin, Sarah is a potential killing machine with a cybernetic arm. The prose is lively and self-aware (the author clearly knows his story is way over the top and has fun with it for that very reason); meanwhile, though, the action is pretty much nonstop, and there's a thread of melancholy running throughoutâ€"Rose and Sarah might have been ordinary young women if certain events, and the machinations of highly placed individuals who saw them as weapons, had not intervened. All in all, a brilliant genre-blender. Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews.

The Oxford Inheritance by Ann A. McDonald a book I just finished,good

Anne Fortier's Juliet is what I'm reading now

All things cease to appear / Elizabeth Brundage just put on reserve list at NYPL

more big bad Mick Herron

Real Tigers by Mick Herron is simply great

new Jack

King of Fear by Drew Chapman,just finished

Neurotribes by Steve Silberman is what i'm reading now,very good

reading The Ascendant by Drew Chapman,very good...

The Travelers by Chris Pavone ,can't wait...

Meet Will Rhodes: travel writer, recently married, barely solvent, his idealism rapidly giving way to disillusionment and the worry that he’s living the wrong life. Then one night, on assignment for the award-winning Travelers magazine in the wine region of Argentina, a beautiful woman makes him an offer he can’t refuse. Soon Will’s bad choices—and dark secrets—take him across Europe, from a chateau in Bordeaux to a midnight raid on a Paris mansion, from a dive bar in Dublin to a mega-yacht in the Mediterranean and an isolated cabin perched on the rugged cliffs of Iceland. As he’s drawn further into a tangled web of international intrigue, it becomes clear that nothing about Will Rhodes was ever ordinary, that the network of deception ensnaring him is part of an immense and deadly conspiracy with terrifying global implications—and that the people closest to him may pose the greatest threat of all.

CITY ON FIRE By Garth Risk Hallberg is what I'm reading now "i'm in a rich guys house,bring the duct tape and the guns"

My art teacher from Towson High School,i'll never forget him...

James Drake Iams is an accomplished watercolorist