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About the Murder of Geraldine Foster by Anthony Abbot

About the Murder of Geraldine Foster by Anthony Abbot

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This was a really great Golden Age mystery novel. I have never heard of Abbot before, and of course found out he was the author of The Greatest Story Ever Told after I bought this book and started to read it. And honestly, I knew that it was a movie (The Greatest Story Ever Told) but never realized it started off as a book. Back to About the Murder of Geraldine Foster, I really loved reading about a New York version of Sherlock Holmes (Thatcher […]

In the Dark

In the Dark by Loreth Anne White

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I actually thought this was a really great homage to And Then There Were None. The main reason why I gave it 4 stars though is that the back and forth between the current investigation to what happened to the people off to a luxury spa really did slow the book down a lot. I also didn’t care about the potential romance between the homicide investigator Mason Deniaud and the search and rescue (SAR) expert Callie Sutton. I just thought both of their side stories […]

Kiss (Budd & Abbot), Marry (Ivy), K*ll (everyone else)

Harley Quinn: The Animated Series Volume 1: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour (#1-6) by Tee Franklin, Max Sarin and various

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These gals ain’t going to have a Harlequin Romance written about them. ‘Cause the clown princess Harley Quinn and that green-thumbed (who knows how to use it) Poison Ivy are anything but a cozy romance love affair.   We start off the collected comics of the Dynamic Duo of Mayhem, Harley Quinn: The Animated Series Volume 1: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour (#1-6) by Tee Franklin, Max Sarin (Illustrator) and others, with a car chase out of Gotham. It is a “between the series” moment where Ivy […]

Mars is a planet divided and so am I about my feelings about the book

Total THB, Volume 1 by Paul Pope

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All I am going to say about Total THB, Volume 1 by Paul Pope is that each person has their own feelings on this combination of 1984, all other dystopian stories, Brave New World, cyberpunk, coming of age story. Okay, I lie…… I will say more.  It had some WOW that’s awesome moments. And then some WTF ??????????????? moments (I mean there is a story arc where a Steinway piano is a sentient special agent assassin). And then Whaaaaaaaaat is going on moments and it […]

I know I took a picture of this….

Witch's Inheritance by Paige Hender

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When I first saw the cover of Witch’s Inheritance by Paige Hender I figured it was a Baba Yaga story (chicken-footed house) and the witches were going to be “the bad guys” or at least one “bad guy” witch and the rest “good witches.”  That’s partly true.   There is a chicken house, good witches and some bad magical characters, but not as you’d think. The main character of the story has inherited her estranged mother’s family home from her unknown grandmother. She meets her equally […]

The time Marjane Satrapi made me question my love of them

The Sigh by Marjane Satrapi

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When I was texting my friend about the title, The Sigh by Marjane Satrapi, her comments made me realize I was not doing the book justice. I mean “outdated”? How could that be? She’s not a DID (Damsel in Distress). And she goes off to save the prince. Okay, so yeah, he was a bit of a creeper (drugging her and going into her bedroom at night to stroke her hair) and he never told her not to touch the feather…. But outdated? And okay, […]



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