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“I’m dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.”

Death Masks (The Dresden Files #5) by Jim Butcher

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I feel like I’ve probably mentioned this in all of my previous reviews of this series but I’m going to mention it again right out of the gate: this book is read by James Marsters, i.e., Spike from Buffy, and he IS Harry Dresden, a delicious and perfect choice for the browbeaten, sarcastic, hapless, chauvinistic wizard. And that is what Harry is. I’ve scanned some reviews that are like, “ugh, when will Harry learn” and “he’s such a chauvinist” and well yes. But that’s the […]

Maud: Meet Cannonball Read. Cannonball Read: Meet Maud.

Meet Maud the Koala by Jennifer E. Morris

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The other day, several books dropped on my foot. After a few frails and dressings were uttered, it became clear that one of those little darlings turned out to be a skinny (though pointy cornered) beginning graphic novel called Meet Maud the Koala by Jennifer E. Morris. Looking at it I asked myself, “Self. Why did you buy this book?” I answered myself, “Maybe because it has a Koala Bear? You like Koalas.” Regardless of the why, I figured that this was a sign to […]

Generosity – Richard Powers (2009)

Generosity by Richard Powers

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I genuinely liked the writing in this novel a lot, and some of the thinking that went into it. It goes off in an unexpected direction about a third the way through that becomes the major source of plot for the novel, but I ended up thinking it was a lot less successful than the direction the novel seemed to be taking initially. We begin in Chicago where a burnt out writer and editor is beginning an adjunct job with a local small college teaching […]

Heaven’s Prisoners – James Lee Burke (1988)

Heaven's Prisoners by James Lee Burke

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The second in the Dave Robicheaux novels. I liked the first one a lot, and did not like this one nearly as much. I will fully admit that when I was a teenager, I put some energy into finding a tape of the truly terrible movie version of this because of some famous nudity. The idea of Alec Baldwin as a grizzled Vietnam vet and retired police detective is absurd, not discounting that he’s ten years too young for the role. The mystery begins with […]

Mixed Bag III

Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales by Michael Chabon et

The Final Solution by Michael Chabon

This Telling by Cheryl Strayed

Sweet Virginia by Caroline Kepnes

Shine Pamela Shine by Kate Atkinson

Halfway to Free by Emma Donaghue

Graceful Burdens by Roxanna Gay

Bear Witness by Mark Gaitskill

The Contractors by Lisa Ko

Sun of a Beach by Mia Sosa

The Wonderful Adventure of Nils by Selma Lagerlof

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Thrilling Tales – 2/5 Stars I’ve read this book twice previously and more or less liked a lot of the stories. But this reread was pretty sour for a few reasons. The story collection is ostensibly a genre collection of adventure stories posed off of Michael Chabon’s childhood of reading such stories. There’s probably references in the introduction to Edgar Rice Burroughs and Edgar Wallace and other Edgars. And so, when I bought and read this story in college, I felt more or less that […]



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