Maigret and the Ghost by Georges Simenon
Maigret and Monsieur Charles by Georges Simenon
Maigret and the Ghost "It was just after one o'clock in the morning when the light went out in Maigret's office." As Maigret is leaving his office one night he receives word that his friend and colleague Inspector Lognon, he begins appearing in the books about 35 books previous to this one has … [Read more]
Spoiled Brats by Simon Rich
"They buried my wife in a shoebox in Central Park." This is the third collection of short stories by Simon Rich I've read, and it contains the longer story that was adapted into the screenplay for "American Pickle" which I have not seen, but will talk about soon. The collection begins with a kind … [Read more]
George Washington: The Founding Father by Paul Johnson
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America by Christopher Hitchens
Ulysses S Grant: The Unlikely Hero by Michael Korda
This whole series is produced by Harper Collins and first began appearing in the mid-2000s. There's about a dozen or so short biographies from world figures like the three listed here, but also Balanchine, Caravaggio, Machiavelli, Beethoven, de Tocqueville, Freud, Muhammad, and Francis Crick. I … [Read more]
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
Eliza has external and internal monsters. She has the external high school kind of monsters who like to pick on and reject anyone who seems different. She has the internal monsters of anxiety and insecurity. And of course, she has the monsters that she has created for her webcomic. Eliza is the … [Read more]
Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich
"The first suggestion to Rafe Pomerance that humankind was destroying the conditions necessary for its own survival came on page 66 of the government publication of EPA-600/7-78-019." This is a history, mostly US based, of the policy debates around any kind of action in reaction to climate change … [Read more]
The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
To be clear, the book isn't about gremlins, I'm just calling it a gremlin book because it's weird and small and has claws but is also kind of harmless and laughable in the right light. Also also, gremlin is a fun word to use. This book is impossible to *really* talk about without spoilers, so I'm … [Read more]
