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Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

        Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari is a hilarious and thought provoking book about dating in today's tech savvy society. Aziz Ansari is a comedian and actor most know for his role in Parks and Recreation  up with the idea with his own downfall in his dating life. The anxiety of not receiving a text back from a woman he had an interest in caused a whirlwind of thoughts but it soon became an ah-ha moment for Anarsi. He knew that other people must be facing the same thing as him. So he decided to take what just happened and put it out on stage. Soon it became the outline for a book. Travel with him through as he venture out to experience various dating cultures, mishaps, and success.        The book was hilarious and the audio book was just as great. I enjoyed it and found it hard to put the book down once I started it. Treat yourself with this book.        If you want to read Modern Romance  by Aziz Ansari it is available at The Ocean City Free Public Library.

"A Banquet of Consequences" by Elizabeth George

      Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley mystery series is probably one of my favourites in the style of English detective stories. It's the series that I keep returning to, when I slip into a reading rut and can't focus on reading something new, particularly to the first book in the series A Great Deliverance. While there are lots of decent mystery series circulating now, the first book in George's Lynley stories has a certain grim insistence about it that keeps drawing me back to it. And in her latest contribution to the series, George has written a story that in many aspects parallels her first--however, these parallels did not become immediately apparent until the climax of the story.       One of the things that I like best about Elizabeth George's writing is that she realises that a lot of times, the supporting characters can have better story potential than the main title character. She uses this to her advantage in almost all of the Lynley series, so mu