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Beneath Devil’s Bridge by Loreth Anne WhiteMy rating: 4 of 5 starsI haven’t read much by Loreth Anne White yet: I have read two books of her “A Dark Lure” series and liked those well enough to keep an eye on White.Consequently, this book came as ... [More] a bit of a “shock” because it’s a complete departure from the narational lines established by those previous books.In “Beneath Devil’s Bridge” we read about an old case from 1997 which regains attention 24 years later due to a young true-crime podcaster, Trinity, who interviews the incarcerated murderer of Leena Rai, Clayton.As it seems to be all the rage these days, “Bridge” features time jumps between the original investigation of the murder in 1997 and Trinity’s podcast – excerpts of which are used as a device – in 2021.Rachel, the leading detective in 1997, now retired from her Police Department, around 60, instigated by Trinity’s podcast and the fact that suddenly the convicted murderer, the man who confessed everything and then decided to not ever talk about the case again; the fact that Clayton talks now, privately, makes Rachel “re-open” the case and moves to get to the truth – this time!»Yet beneath my love there lies a whisper of unarticulated disquiet, a silently mounting anxiety, something heaving and writhing below in my unconscious«“Bridge” is one of those books that have no obvious flaws – the premise is interesting, the story well told and the language adaequat, in some cases clever and imaginative (»an explosion of truth«). It’s also a page-turner – on my Kindle I always keep the percentage to which I’ve read the book visible. The less I glance at this indicator, the more a book engrosses me. In this case, I noticed the indicator at 4%, 24%, 48% and around 94%.Twists and plot twists abound and yet the story is intrinsically plausible and sufficiently honest to enjoy oneself – and while not unpredictable, in some cases, I sat and pondered possibilities.»No matter how much we pretend otherwise—mothers, daughters, grandmothers—there is always a part of us deep down inside that remains the little girl we once were. Whether we are fifteen or forty or eighty, that little person still lurks beneath everything we do, or think, or try to become, or fight against. She’s always there.«So why award only four stars out of five? To be honest, I’m not entirely sure myself – “Bridge” is entertaining enough and intelligent enough. And yet, some facets felt lacking – what’s the deal about the therapist? He plays a central role and yet remains pretty bland as a character. The ex-cop’s daughter – she, too, is centre stage and yet I struggled to remember her name…“Beneath Devil’s Bridge” is a well-done, suspenseful who-dun-it that’s very readable and enjoyable but lacks a bit of a soul.View all my reviews I am and have been working on quite a few F/OSS projects: Exherbo (Nick: Philantrop), Bedrock Linux, Gentoo (Nick: Philantrop), Calibre plugin iOS reader applications, Calibre plugin Marvin XD, chroot-manager, stuff on github, lots of other projects. If you like my work, feel free to donate. Blog GoodReads LibraryThing Facebook Twitter Instagram [Less]

Beneath Devil’s Bridge by Loreth Anne WhiteMy rating: 4 of 5 starsI haven’t read much by Loreth Anne White yet: I have read two books of her “A Dark Lure” series and liked those well enough to keep an eye on White.Consequently, this book came as ... [More] a bit of a “shock” because it’s a complete departure from the narational lines established by those previous books.In “Beneath Devil’s Bridge” we read about an old case from 1997 which regains attention 24 years later due to a young true-crime podcaster, Trinity, who interviews the incarcerated murderer of Leena Rai, Clayton.As it seems to be all the rage these days, “Bridge” features time jumps between the original investigation of the murder in 1997 and Trinity’s podcast – excerpts of which are used as a device – in 2021.Rachel, the leading detective in 1997, now retired from her Police Department, around 60, instigated by Trinity’s podcast and the fact that suddenly the convicted murderer, the man who confessed everything and then decided to not ever talk about the case again; the fact that Clayton talks now, privately, makes Rachel “re-open” the case and moves to get to the truth – this time!»Yet beneath my love there lies a whisper of unarticulated disquiet, a silently mounting anxiety, something heaving and writhing below in my unconscious«“Bridge” is one of those books that have no obvious flaws – the premise is interesting, the story well told and the language adaequat, in some cases clever and imaginative (»an explosion of truth«). It’s also a page-turner – on my Kindle I always keep the percentage to which I’ve read the book visible. The less I glance at this indicator, the more a book engrosses me. In this case, I noticed the indicator at 4%, 24%, 48% and around 94%.Twists and plot twists abound and yet the story is intrinsically plausible and sufficiently honest to enjoy oneself – and while not unpredictable, in some cases, I sat and pondered possibilities.»No matter how much we pretend otherwise—mothers, daughters, grandmothers—there is always a part of us deep down inside that remains the little girl we once were. Whether we are fifteen or forty or eighty, that little person still lurks beneath everything we do, or think, or try to become, or fight against. She’s always there.«So why award only four stars out of five? To be honest, I’m not entirely sure myself – “Bridge” is entertaining enough and intelligent enough. And yet, some facets felt lacking – what’s the deal about the therapist? He plays a central role and yet remains pretty bland as a character. The ex-cop’s daughter – she, too, is centre stage and yet I struggled to remember her name…“Beneath Devil’s Bridge” is a well-done, suspenseful who-dun-it that’s very readable and enjoyable but lacks a bit of a soul.View all my reviews I am and have been working on quite a few F/OSS projects: Exherbo (Nick: Philantrop), Bedrock Linux, Gentoo (Nick: Philantrop), Calibre plugin iOS reader applications, Calibre plugin Marvin XD, chroot-manager, stuff on github, lots of other projects. If you like my work, feel free to donate. Blog GoodReads LibraryThing Facebook Twitter Instagram [Less]

Beneath Devil’s Bridge by Loreth Anne WhiteMy rating: 4 of 5 starsI haven’t read much by Loreth Anne White yet: I have read two books of her “A Dark Lure” series and liked those well enough to keep an eye on White.Consequently, this book came as ... [More] a bit of a “shock” because it’s a complete departure from the narational lines established by those previous books.In “Beneath Devil’s Bridge” we read about an old case from 1997 which regains attention 24 years later due to a young true-crime podcaster, Trinity, who interviews the incarcerated murderer of Leena Rai, Clayton.As it seems to be all the rage these days, “Bridge” features time jumps between the original investigation of the murder in 1997 and Trinity’s podcast – excerpts of which are used as a device – in 2021.Rachel, the leading detective in 1997, now retired from her Police Department, around 60, instigated by Trinity’s podcast and the fact that suddenly the convicted murderer, the man who confessed everything and then decided to not ever talk about the case again; the fact that Clayton talks now, privately, makes Rachel “re-open” the case and moves to get to the truth – this time!»Yet beneath my love there lies a whisper of unarticulated disquiet, a silently mounting anxiety, something heaving and writhing below in my unconscious«“Bridge” is one of those books that have no obvious flaws – the premise is interesting, the story well told and the language adaequat, in some cases clever and imaginative (»an explosion of truth«). It’s also a page-turner – on my Kindle I always keep the percentage to which I’ve read the book visible. The less I glance at this indicator, the more a book engrosses me. In this case, I noticed the indicator at 4%, 24%, 48% and around 94%.Twists and plot twists abound and yet the story is intrinsically plausible and sufficiently honest to enjoy oneself – and while not unpredictable, in some cases, I sat and pondered possibilities.»No matter how much we pretend otherwise—mothers, daughters, grandmothers—there is always a part of us deep down inside that remains the little girl we once were. Whether we are fifteen or forty or eighty, that little person still lurks beneath everything we do, or think, or try to become, or fight against. She’s always there.«So why award only four stars out of five? To be honest, I’m not entirely sure myself – “Bridge” is entertaining enough and intelligent enough. And yet, some facets felt lacking – what’s the deal about the therapist? He plays a central role and yet remains pretty bland as a character. The ex-cop’s daughter – she, too, is centre stage and yet I struggled to remember her name…“Beneath Devil’s Bridge” is a well-done, suspenseful who-dun-it that’s very readable and enjoyable but lacks a bit of a soul.View all my reviews I am and have been working on quite a few F/OSS projects: Exherbo (Nick: Philantrop), Bedrock Linux, Gentoo (Nick: Philantrop), Calibre plugin iOS reader applications, Calibre plugin Marvin XD, chroot-manager, stuff on github, lots of other projects. If you like my work, feel free to donate. Blog GoodReads LibraryThing Facebook Twitter Instagram [Less]

Beneath Devil’s Bridge by Loreth Anne WhiteMy rating: 4 of 5 starsI haven’t read much by Loreth Anne White yet: I have read two books of her “A Dark Lure” series and liked those well enough to keep an eye on White.Consequently, this book came as ... [More] a bit of a “shock” because it’s a complete departure from the narational lines established by those previous books.In “Beneath Devil’s Bridge” we read about an old case from 1997 which regains attention 24 years later due to a young true-crime podcaster, Trinity, who interviews the incarcerated murderer of Leena Rai, Clayton.As it seems to be all the rage these days, “Bridge” features time jumps between the original investigation of the murder in 1997 and Trinity’s podcast – excerpts of which are used as a device – in 2021.Rachel, the leading detective in 1997, now retired from her Police Department, around 60, instigated by Trinity’s podcast and the fact that suddenly the convicted murderer, the man who confessed everything and then decided to not ever talk about the case again; the fact that Clayton talks now, privately, makes Rachel “re-open” the case and moves to get to the truth – this time!»Yet beneath my love there lies a whisper of unarticulated disquiet, a silently mounting anxiety, something heaving and writhing below in my unconscious«“Bridge” is one of those books that have no obvious flaws – the premise is interesting, the story well told and the language adaequat, in some cases clever and imaginative (»an explosion of truth«). It’s also a page-turner – on my Kindle I always keep the percentage to which I’ve read the book visible. The less I glance at this indicator, the more a book engrosses me. In this case, I noticed the indicator at 4%, 24%, 48% and around 94%.Twists and plot twists abound and yet the story is intrinsically plausible and sufficiently honest to enjoy oneself – and while not unpredictable, in some cases, I sat and pondered possibilities.»No matter how much we pretend otherwise—mothers, daughters, grandmothers—there is always a part of us deep down inside that remains the little girl we once were. Whether we are fifteen or forty or eighty, that little person still lurks beneath everything we do, or think, or try to become, or fight against. She’s always there.«So why award only four stars out of five? To be honest, I’m not entirely sure myself – “Bridge” is entertaining enough and intelligent enough. And yet, some facets felt lacking – what’s the deal about the therapist? He plays a central role and yet remains pretty bland as a character. The ex-cop’s daughter – she, too, is centre stage and yet I struggled to remember her name…“Beneath Devil’s Bridge” is a well-done, suspenseful who-dun-it that’s very readable and enjoyable but lacks a bit of a soul.View all my reviews [Less]

Beneath Devil’s Bridge by Loreth Anne WhiteMy rating: 4 of 5 starsI haven’t read much by Loreth Anne White yet: I have read two books of her “A Dark Lure” series and liked those well enough to keep an eye on White.Consequently, this book came as ... [More] a bit of a “shock” because it’s a complete departure from the narational lines established by those previous books.In “Beneath Devil’s Bridge” we read about an old case from 1997 which regains attention 24 years later due to a young true-crime podcaster, Trinity, who interviews the incarcerated murderer of Leena Rai, Clayton.As it seems to be all the rage these days, “Bridge” features time jumps between the original investigation of the murder in 1997 and Trinity’s podcast – excerpts of which are used as a device – in 2021.Rachel, the leading detective in 1997, now retired from her Police Department, around 60, instigated by Trinity’s podcast and the fact that suddenly the convicted murderer, the man who confessed everything and then decided to not ever talk about the case again; the fact that Clayton talks now, privately, makes Rachel “re-open” the case and moves to get to the truth – this time!»Yet beneath my love there lies a whisper of unarticulated disquiet, a silently mounting anxiety, something heaving and writhing below in my unconscious«“Bridge” is one of those books that have no obvious flaws – the premise is interesting, the story well told and the language adaequat, in some cases clever and imaginative (»an explosion of truth«). It’s also a page-turner – on my Kindle I always keep the percentage to which I’ve read the book visible. The less I glance at this indicator, the more a book engrosses me. In this case, I noticed the indicator at 4%, 24%, 48% and around 94%.Twists and plot twists abound and yet the story is intrinsically plausible and sufficiently honest to enjoy oneself – and while not unpredictable, in some cases, I sat and pondered possibilities.»No matter how much we pretend otherwise—mothers, daughters, grandmothers—there is always a part of us deep down inside that remains the little girl we once were. Whether we are fifteen or forty or eighty, that little person still lurks beneath everything we do, or think, or try to become, or fight against. She’s always there.«So why award only four stars out of five? To be honest, I’m not entirely sure myself – “Bridge” is entertaining enough and intelligent enough. And yet, some facets felt lacking – what’s the deal about the therapist? He plays a central role and yet remains pretty bland as a character. The ex-cop’s daughter – she, too, is centre stage and yet I struggled to remember her name…“Beneath Devil’s Bridge” is a well-done, suspenseful who-dun-it that’s very readable and enjoyable but lacks a bit of a soul.View all my reviews I am and have been working on quite a few F/OSS projects: Exherbo (Nick: Philantrop), Bedrock Linux, Gentoo (Nick: Philantrop), Calibre plugin iOS reader applications, Calibre plugin Marvin XD, chroot-manager, stuff on github, lots of other projects. If you like my work, feel free to donate. Blog GoodReads LibraryThing Facebook Twitter Instagram [Less]

I am happy to annouce the release of SydBox-2.1.0. This release has many fixes and some new features. Below you may find information on the recent changes and how to acquire SydBox. Changes sydbox: do not warn when reading /proc/pid/stat returns ... [More] invalid argument tests: many fixes, add more test coverage sydbox: fix AArch64 compilation and tests sydbox: add many daemon options, such as --user, --group, --background, --nice etc. Read the fine manual for further details. [Less]

12 Years: SydBox-v2.0.1 I am happy to announce the release of SydBox-2.0.1, its third major release after serving as the default sandbox of Exherbo for 12 years since 2009.08.17. Read the fine manual at https://sydbox.exherbo.org Check out Pandora! ... [More] https://pandora.exherbo.org which is a SydBox helper to make sandboxing practical for everyone! Download . @ Tar https://dev.exherbo.org/~alip/sydbox/sydbox-2.0.1.tar.bz2 SHA https://dev.exherbo.org/~alip/sydbox/sydbox-2.0.1.tar.bz2.sha1sum GPG https://dev. [Less]

Pandora v0.5.2 is released. Pandora’s Box is a helper for SydBox, a ptrace & seccomp based sandbox to make sandboxing practical. This makes it easy for the end user to use secure computing for practical purposes. You may acquire Pandora with ... [More] cargo install pandora_box. See Pandora’s page on crates.io. Pandora requires Sydbox. See SydBox README to learn more about how to install SydBox. This version of Pandora updates configuration format to Sydbox API Version 2 and only works with SydBox v2. [Less]

The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia QuinnMy rating: 4 of 5 starsThis is the kind of book most of my fellow males will avoid like the plague. All the more so if they ever – by accident, of course! – happen to come across the “Author’s Note” in this ... [More] book which explicitly states “Since my readers are almost exclusively women”…Well, here I am, and I profess: I greatly enjoyed this book despite knowing that it most certainly is (mostly) literary fast food – good to sate ones primal desires but not really nourishing.And I couldn’t care less.I really enjoyed the lovely family dynamics between the Bridgertons and I loved the witty bantering between Anthony and Kate. I just can’t help but root for such wonderful characters and their relationships, their eccentricities and how they overcome them.Is it realistic? Not at all. Historically accurate? Very unlikely. Romantic, cute and thoroughly enjoyable? To me at least, absolutely.You’ll have to be able to generously ignore macho “gems” like this one…»It was as if a certain side of her were visible only to him. He loved that her charms were hidden to the rest of the world. It made her seem more his.«… which this book features in numbers. The men are “real men” (and hardly stop short at clubbing their female prey and dragging them to their cave), the women are kind and gentle and it doesn’t take much to dishonour a lady for life…If you can stomach that, you might find yourself actually enjoying it. Four out of five stars for this guilty pleasure.View all my reviews I am and have been working on quite a few F/OSS projects: Exherbo (Nick: Philantrop), Bedrock Linux, Gentoo (Nick: Philantrop), Calibre plugin iOS reader applications, Calibre plugin Marvin XD, chroot-manager, stuff on github, lots of other projects. If you like my work, feel free to donate. Blog GoodReads LibraryThing Facebook Twitter Instagram [Less]

The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia QuinnMy rating: 4 of 5 starsThis is the kind of book most of my fellow males will avoid like the plague. All the more so if they ever – by accident, of course! – happen to come across the “Author’s Note” in this ... [More] book which explicitly states “Since my readers are almost exclusively women”…Well, here I am, and I profess: I greatly enjoyed this book despite knowing that it most certainly is (mostly) literary fast food – good to sate ones primal desires but not really nourishing.And I couldn’t care less.I really enjoyed the lovely family dynamics between the Bridgertons and I loved the witty bantering between Anthony and Kate. I just can’t help but root for such wonderful characters and their relationships, their eccentricities and how they overcome them.Is it realistic? Not at all. Historically accurate? Very unlikely. Romantic, cute and thoroughly enjoyable? To me at least, absolutely.You’ll have to be able to generously ignore macho “gems” like this one…»It was as if a certain side of her were visible only to him. He loved that her charms were hidden to the rest of the world. It made her seem more his.«… which this book features in numbers. The men are “real men” (and hardly stop short at clubbing their female prey and dragging them to their cave), the women are kind and gentle and it doesn’t take much to dishonour a lady for life…If you can stomach that, you might find yourself actually enjoying it. Four out of five stars for this guilty pleasure.View all my reviews I am and have been working on quite a few F/OSS projects: Exherbo (Nick: Philantrop), Bedrock Linux, Gentoo (Nick: Philantrop), Calibre plugin iOS reader applications, Calibre plugin Marvin XD, chroot-manager, stuff on github, lots of other projects. If you like my work, feel free to donate. Blog GoodReads LibraryThing Facebook Twitter Instagram [Less]