Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen
I don’t know how to feel about this book, but also it was utterly compelling and hard to put down. When Andy is caught with his pants down in a gay bar, he feels like his whole life is over – he’s lost his job with the San Francisco police department, lost his housing, and knew the cops who caught him intended to spread his truth so he’d never get a job again. But before he can follow through on ending things, Pearl offers him […]
Siracusa by Delia Ephron
I picked this book up after listening to the audiobook Left on Tenth, Delia Ephron’s memoir about the period of her life after she lost her beloved husband, found new love, and then dealt with serious health issues. She narrated her own memoir, and that is my favorite type of audiobook – a memoir read aloud by the author. The book itself was charming and well written – I haven’t known an Ephron whose work doesn’t translate well when read aloud. I loved hearing about her […]
Catch and Cradle by Katia Rose
Katia Rose is really good at writing two people who want to kiss each other. It’s a simple thing you would think, from a romance author, but damn if this isn’t two books in a row I have read, after The Devil Wears Tartan, where I really was so into the idea of two girls kissing. I mean, this is a pretty standard position for me to take, but this time I was really into it. Catch and Cradle is the story of Hope and […]
The Mist by Stephen King
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
The Mist – 4/5 I’ve read and reread The Mist a number of times, mostly separate from the rest of the stories in this collection. I often found that once I was done with it, given that it’s over 100 pages, I was kind of spent. I also found, that especially with horror stories and sci-fi stories etc, that audiobook versions are so so so much better for me. The Mist also works a lot differently because it’s built more like a Stephen King novel […]
James & the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
This book was in the “Banned Books” display at my library, so I picked it up on my way to the check-out counter. The last time I read James and the Giant Peach, I think I may have been in the 4th grade, so this was really like reading it for the first time. As an adult, I have to say the descriptions of the child abuse inflicted on James by his aunts was really disturbing, so I was shocked to find out that’s not why […]
The Kolchak Papers: The Original Novels by Jeff Rice
I like to find the original literary sources for movies that I like (see past reviews of Strangers on a Train, Rosemary’s Baby, Breakfast at Tiffany’s), so I was happy to find out that an old television show from my childhood, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, actually started life out as a book. The Kolchak Papers: The Original Novels includes the first two novels that introduced intrepid reporter Carl Kolchak, who has a flair for detecting the supernatural. They first debuted in 1970 and are now […]
