Tales of Burning Love by Louise Erdrich
Once upon a time, I signed up for my first CBR. I had a lofty plan of reading all of Louise Erdrich’s books in order. Why did I feel like I needed a theme? Who knows. All I know is that I fell down on book one, and it took me until last year to get back up. My recollection was that I was reading Tales of Burning Love at the time, and my stumble was going back to the beginning of her bibliography. I […]
Honor Thy Father by Gay Talese
Hit and Run by Lawrence Block
The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost
After two-plus years of successfully evading the coronavirus, it finally caught up to me last week. Fortunately, my symptoms were mild (vaccinated and boosted), the only one lingering was fatigue. That and family responsibilities left me little time to write reviews this past week. So I decided to put these three here instead of my monthly dump because they were all worthy of longer reviews, two good, one damn fine. Honor Thy Father **** One of the things that made The Sopranos such an excellent television […]
Batman, Volume 3: Death in the Family by Scott Snyder
DC: The New Frontier, Volume 1 by Darwyn Cooke
Batman: Curse of the White Knight by Sean Gordon Murphy
Batman, Volume 4: Zero Year-Secret City by Scott Snyder
Chances by Jackie Collins
Batgirl, Volume 1: Batgirl of Burnside by Cameron Stewart
Batman, Volume 5: Zero Year-Dark City by Scott Snyder
Sonny: The Last of the Old Time Mafia Bosses, John "Sonny" Franzeze by S.J. Peddie
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman
Call Me a Cab by Donald Westlake
Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen
The Bouncer by David Gordon
Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbø
Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL by R.D. Rosen
Concourse by S.J. Rozan
Here are the books I read in April that didn’t merit a full review… Batman, Vol. 3: Death in the Family **** Reading a Batman-v-Joker comic is perfect for April Fools Day. I loved Scott Snyder’s Court of Owls run but wasn’t sure how I’d feel about him doing a Joker story combined with the extended Batman Family (which I’ve never been interested in). But this is a good story, a creepy one that continues to burnish Snyder’s credentials on this series. DC: The New Frontier, Volume […]
Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski
I sat on this review for most of the day, unsure of what to make of this book. I think I’m gonna land on the side of “good” and give it a 4-star seal of approval. I think a lot of people are coming into this looking at the subplot of crime involving a stripper and assume this is a Hustler$-esque pulp tale. It’s not that at all. Instead, it’s how people’s lives revolve around a popular stripper who has gone missing, including, but not limited […]
Jumpers by Tom Stoppard
I picked this up from a library book sale. Jumpers is the first play Tom Stoppard put out after Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and even though the persnickety toffs of Concord MA apparently didn’t check it out very often, I thought it showed some promise. The back cover copy is of the “can you believe how wacky” genre, like, “British astronauts are scrapping with each other on the moon, and spritely academics steal about London by night indulging in murderous gymnastics!” If you are […]
Trouble Is What I Do by Walter Mosley
Sleeping With Strangers by Eric Jerome Dickey
The Trees by Percival Everett
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Democracy by Carol Anderson
These are my February leftovers, i.e. books that I read but didn’t give a full review either cuz I didn’t have time or didn’t have much to say. There are fewer than normal this month because Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. DuBois took up most of my time. Trouble Is What I Do **** Another good entry in the Leonid McGill series. It’s short and that streamlines the story more than its predecessors. I still read these as if Leonid is dead and NYC is his purgatory where […]
