Exit Strategy by Lee Child and Andrew Child

 Title: Exit Strategy

Author: Lee Child and Andrew Child
Did I listen or read?: library book
When did I finish?: 3/16/2026
When was the book published: 2025
Main Characters: Reacher, Gilmour an ex-CIA hired randomly as a security guard to cheat. Strickland
What happens? Gilmour convinces Reacher to help him after he observes him saving an elderly couple from 3 scam artists in a coffee shop.  Reacher helps him and they finally eventually figure out the big secret, after unraveling that a shrink was using confidential info to blackmail patients into carrying out a plot.  What plot?  Hell if I know...
How long was this? 304 pages
Did I like this? Not much.  I really couldn't follow what was going on and couldn't care.  It really is a creative idea revealed at the very end, and, if there was some hint of what the hell was going on, that would have helped.
Overall grade: C+

What We Can Know by Ian Mcewan

 Title: What We Can Know

Author: Ian Mcewan
Did I listen or read?:
When did I finish?: 3/7/2026
When was the book published: 2025
Main Characters: Francis and Vivien Blundy, Thomas Metcalfe, Vivien's first husband Percy
What happens? in 2219, Metcalfe researches Blundy (from 2016, before the deluge from global warming) and tries to find the love poem that Francis wrote for Vivien called "A Corona for Vivien."
How long was this? 302 pages
Did I like this? Real literature, kind of odd and random that this guy dedicates his life to finding this poem, and all the characters around it.  Often the most interesting is life in 2119.
Overall grade: B

Woof by Spencer Quinn

 Title: Woof

Author: Spencer Quinn
Did I listen or read?: libby audiobook
When did I finish?: 3/3/2026
When was the book published: 2015
Main Characters: Bowser and Birdi series number 1
What happens? Birdie works for the Gaux family bait shop.  The valuable stuffed fish disappears from the store.  I can't remember what happened.
How long was this? 304 pages
Did I like this? Ok, cute but repetitive, really wanted Chet and the Little detective agency
Overall grade: B-

The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

 Title: The Impossible Fortune

Author: Richard Osman
Did I listen or read?: library book
When did I finish?: 3/1/2026
When was the book published:2025
Main Characters: Joyce, Ibrahim, Ron, Elizabeth.
What happens? A couple has built a safe deposit cold storage biz.  Someone (a criminal) paid them with crypto and it's now worth 350 million.  The guy asks for help as his life is in danger.  The woman comes to see them and gets blown up.
How long was this? 368 pages
Did I like this? Really like these stories.  Love the characters and the plot moves.
Overall grade: A-