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Book cover of Ride the Pink Horse, showing a pink merry-go-round horse

“And say your mea culpa, which you gradually forgot”

Ride the Pink Horse (1946) by Dorothy B. Hughes

October 28, 2023 by drmllz 4 Comments

Cannonball Read 15 Bingo Square “On the Road”: Three men have travelled from Chicago to Santa Fe in a complicated game of cat and mouse I think that Dorothy B. Hughes’s writing, at its best, possesses a terrible beauty, to borrow a phrase from W.B. Yeats’s “Easter, 1916.” Elsewhere, of course, Yeats wrote that “things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”, a fragment of a phrase that beats at the dark heart of noir fiction, where comforting myths of love, or integrity, or fairness implode […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: CBR15, cbr15bingo, classic noir, crime, criminal POV, Dorothy B. Hughes, drmllz, on the road square

drmllz's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: CBR15, cbr15bingo, classic noir, crime, criminal POV, Dorothy B. Hughes, drmllz, on the road square ·
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A Whole Lot to Juggle

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

October 28, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

CBR15 Bingo Hold Steady So Harlem in the 60’s.  Everyone’s just trying to get by.  Ray Carney’s worked his way from a hardscrabble youth to being a solid family man with an up and coming furniture store on 125th.  But there is his cousin and best friend, Freddie.  Ray’s mother was long gone and his dad was always sketchy.  But Freddie and his mom, Aunt Millie, they were his family.  Freddie, however, always ran a bit on the wild side, and when he shows up […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, History Tagged With: cbr15 bingo hold steady, Colson Whitehead, crime gone wrong, dodgy relatives, family man trying to get by, Harlem in the 60s, space age furniture

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:31 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, History · Tags: cbr15 bingo hold steady, Colson Whitehead, crime gone wrong, dodgy relatives, family man trying to get by, Harlem in the 60s, space age furniture ·
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Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest FBI series

Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest FBI #3 Shadow of Death by Heather Graham

Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest FBI #1 Danger in Numbers by Heather Graham

Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest FBI #2 Crimson Summer by Heather Graham

October 27, 2023 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

I guess I’m back to my old tricks of starting a series at book number three! I don’t know how I do it, but I have a knack for starting at three. Not two, not four, but three. There are many times through the history of my CBRs where I started a series at three. I usually go back and start from one after finishing the third book though! Since this is book three, the duo of Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) agent Amy […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: Amy Larson, apocalypse, cults, Heather Graham, Hunter Forrest, murder

kfishgirl's CBR15 Review No:44 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance, Suspense · Tags: Amy Larson, apocalypse, cults, Heather Graham, Hunter Forrest, murder ·
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This title totally drew me in!

Ernest Cunningham #1 Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

October 27, 2023 by kfishgirl 1 Comment

I don’t know how I came across this book, but I really liked it. I listened to the audiobook, which was really fun. We first meet the narrator Ernest, but everyone calls him Ern or Ernie. This immediately endears him to me because I used to have a crazy, mostly deaf dog named Ernie. You can look back at reviews from years ago to see him! Everyone in Ernie’s family (including himself) has killed someone. Sometimes it was an accident, sometimes it wasn’t. Sometimes it […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Benjamin Stevenson, family, murder

kfishgirl's CBR15 Review No:41 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Benjamin Stevenson, family, murder ·
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More Freida!

The Inmate by Freida McFadden

October 27, 2023 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

  And here we go again with Freida! I must’ve been on a rampage in July. I feel like I put a whole bunch of the same kind of books on hold, and then they all come available at once! This book is about Brooke Sullivan, who is a single mom and a nurse just starting a new job at a men’s maximum security prison. She’s not very good at not telling the inmates her personal business. Oh and the man who nearly killed her […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Freida McFadden, Prison

kfishgirl's CBR15 Review No:37 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Freida McFadden, Prison ·
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Returning to CBR after the summer of moving!

Never Lie by Freida McFadden

October 27, 2023 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

OK full disclosure. Most of my July and August was spent moving into my new house. Then I guess I rested in September? I’m not sure! But I’m back and I’m reviewing the tons of books that I read since July! My coworker got me started on Freida McFadden books. I don’t know how many I’ve read now, but I seem to like them. She has a way of leading me down a path where I think I know how it will end, and then […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: blonde men, Freida McFadden, gaslighting, red flags

kfishgirl's CBR15 Review No:36 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Suspense · Tags: blonde men, Freida McFadden, gaslighting, red flags ·
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