This is a very sweet book. It really left me with a warm, fuzzy feeling in my heart. I picked it almost at random from the library website because I have been reading a lot of heavy stuff and I wanted something funny to cleanse the palate a bit and, well Yiddish for Pirates sounds funny. It did the trick, but there is a really good, strong story here too. The story is told by a 500-year-old parrot named Aaron. He has lasted this […]
F*ck the Police
I’ve read several of the Dublin Murder Squad books, and I really like most of them so I feel confident saying this is probably just a misstep from Tana French, at least for me, because I really had a hard time getting through this one. This one follows Detective Antoinette Conway, who is partnered with Stephen Moran (who was the main character of the last DMS book I read, The Secret Place). Conway transferred over from Missing Persons, and Murder Squad was always her goal […]
Thanks to the CBR Book Club
One of my goals for CBR 10 was to take part in one of the Book Club Reads. When this title popped up as the book choice I felt pretty neutral about it; the description, for whatever reason, didn’t intrigue me at all. At the same time, it didn’t sound boring so I figured I would give it a shot. Man, oh man, thank you CBR voters who knew way better than me. I am so glad I read this book. This may end up […]
Femme Fatale
I really enjoy these kinds of “historical short story” non-fiction books. This book is in the same vein as Jennifer Wright’s books and I was all over those so this is right up my alley. Tori Telfer goes back through the ages, and around various parts of the world to pretty much debunk the myth presented by FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood in 1998; namely that there are “no women serial killers.” She has any number of women here in this book that handily fit the […]
Fractured Fairytale
I finished my last book while I was on vacation and didn’t have anything else on deck so a skimmed through the offerings on Kindle Prime and stumbled across this fun little book. It was a great vacation read. It is about Ella Hannaford, a very serious young women who is an eco-architect. Her mom died when she was young and now her very loving, but hard drinking, dad is getting remarried to a woman who is very… passionate about how she wants things to […]
Sometimes a Book Teaches Us About Ourselves
This is kind of a tough review for me to write. In the course of reading this book I came to realize something about myself. I really am not a fan of fictional stories that revolve around real people and their histories, at least not as long as those people are recent enough that people who knew them could still be alive. This book is about the rise of 1950s movie actress Merle Oberon, and she only died in 1977. Along with that, as she’s […]
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