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Waif Goodbye

Tooth and Nail (Inspector Rebus #3) by Ian Rankin

February 5, 2022 by Zirza Leave a Comment

London, early 1990s. Women are being attacked on the streets; their throats are slit, they’re stabbed in an unfortunate place and a bite mark is left on their stomachs. The first attack happens on Wolf street and thus the press, with their neverending creativity, dub him the Wolfman. Inspector John Rebus – lapsed Christian, alcoholic in denial, still straddling the line between ‘difficult person’ and ‘asshole’ – is called down to aid the investigation, but by whom? And why?  This is a curiously chaotic novel […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: a universe of no women, crime, Ian Rankin, Inspector Rebus, London, serial killers

Zirza's CBR14 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: a universe of no women, crime, Ian Rankin, Inspector Rebus, London, serial killers ·
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Excitement and Adventure and Really Wild Things

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams

Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams

June 24, 2020 by Bothari43 3 Comments

I just turned 42, so I figured a Hitchhiker’s Guide reread would be appropriate. Except I skipped the first book, because I feel like that is already kind of imprinted in my brain, and because teenage me found Restaurant at the End of the Universe first, in the small but wondrous YA Science Fiction section at my library. It’s weird to revisit a series you read and loved as a teen. It’s wonderful to hang out with Ford and Arthur again (now firmly Mos Def […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: a universe of no women, Dent Arthur Dent, disappointing childhood me, douglas adams, Ford Prefect, Marvin the Paranoid Android, revisiting old favorites, Zaphod Beeblebrox

Bothari43's CBR12 Review No:19 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: a universe of no women, Dent Arthur Dent, disappointing childhood me, douglas adams, Ford Prefect, Marvin the Paranoid Android, revisiting old favorites, Zaphod Beeblebrox ·
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