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This was fine, but I doubt I’ll ever re-read it

The Duke Undone by Joanna Lowell

February 13, 2023 by Malin 3 Comments

Lucy Coover is on her way to her painting class at the Royal Academy one morning when she stumbles across a body in an alley. The man is completely naked, and she assumes he’s been the victim of a crime. Then she realises he’s breathing, so he seems to only be dead drunk. As a female art student, Lucy is fascinated by human anatomy but is also not allowed to ever attend life drawing classes at the Academy. She’s late for class but also makes […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: alcoholism, CBR15, historical romance, Joanna Lowell, Malin, painters, The Duke Undone, Victorian

Malin's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: alcoholism, CBR15, historical romance, Joanna Lowell, Malin, painters, The Duke Undone, Victorian ·
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Did Something Bad Actually Happen or Is She Just An Addict? *Sigh* I Hate These Books

The House in the Pines: A Novel by Ana Reyes

February 10, 2023 by Melina Leave a Comment

Maya is haunted by the death of her best friend years earlier when they were on the cusp of high school graduation and planning their futures.  This is brought to the forefront of her memories when she sees a video on youtube of a woman dying on camera despite not being touched.  Maya knows though, that the man in the video, Frank, (someone she dated for a few weeks at 18)  is responsible for the stranger’s death, just as she knows he was responsible for […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: addicts, alcoholism, Ana Reyes, CBR15, Melina, mystery, psychological thriller, The House in the Pines, thriller

Melina's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: addicts, alcoholism, Ana Reyes, CBR15, Melina, mystery, psychological thriller, The House in the Pines, thriller ·
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“That’s the last time I ever saw her:” Judy Garland in Decline

The Other Side of the Rainbow: With Judy Garland on the Dawn Patrol by Mel Tormé

October 10, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

CBR14Bingo: Cold (the wintery chill of the sight of a full staff of people leaving a woman to slowly kill herself) While it was interesting reading about the behind the scenes of the ill-fated Judy Garland Show, this is a very sad book and it’s a grim look into the waste that can occur on the heels of abuse with no help afterwards. I think what struck me the most reading this is that Tormé never has the thought t0 get Judy some help — […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: alcoholism, cbr14bingo, classic hollywood, Drug Abuse, Judy Garland, Mel Torme, television

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:93 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: alcoholism, cbr14bingo, classic hollywood, Drug Abuse, Judy Garland, Mel Torme, television ·
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August 2022 Leftovers

Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy

Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself by K.C. Constantine

The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris

Inside the Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees by Bob Klapisch and Pete Solotaroff

Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child

Finley Ball: How Two Outsiders Turned the Oakland As into a Dynasty and Changed Baseball Forever by Nancy Finley

Sea Change by Robert B. Parker

The Hunting Wives by May Cobb

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

Ms. Tree, Volume 1 by Max Alan Collins

September 3, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Some extra books I read in August. What a miserably hot month… Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood**** Less a conventional biopic on The Mick and more a look at his life vis-a-vis his legend and the backdrop of postwar America. Not as thorough as I would’ve liked but still riveting given how Jane Leavy presents her subject.   Greenwich Park*** Again glad I slept on my review. I really liked how this started but after a while, it morphed into […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #biography, 1950s, albert camus, alcoholism, Author Wiggen, Bang the Drum Slowly, Baseball, Bob Klapisch and Pete Solotaroff, CIA, Doctor Zhivago, espionage, existentialism, Finley Ball, Gone Tomorrow, Greenwich Park, Inside the Empire, Jack Reacher, Jane Leavy, Jesse Stone, K.C. Constantine, Katherine Faulkner, Lara Prescott, Last Boy, lee child, lesbian romance, LGBTQIA, London, Mario Balzic, Mark Harris, Massachusetts, Max Alan Collins, May Cobb, Mickey Mantle, mystery, Nancy Finley, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Paul Tremblay, Pennsylvania, Robert B. Parker, Sea Change, Texas, The Hunting Wives, The Man Who Liked to Look At Himself, The Pallbearers Club, The Secrets We Kept, the stranger, thriller, USSR

Jake's CBR14 Review No:165 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #biography, 1950s, albert camus, alcoholism, Author Wiggen, Bang the Drum Slowly, Baseball, Bob Klapisch and Pete Solotaroff, CIA, Doctor Zhivago, espionage, existentialism, Finley Ball, Gone Tomorrow, Greenwich Park, Inside the Empire, Jack Reacher, Jane Leavy, Jesse Stone, K.C. Constantine, Katherine Faulkner, Lara Prescott, Last Boy, lee child, lesbian romance, LGBTQIA, London, Mario Balzic, Mark Harris, Massachusetts, Max Alan Collins, May Cobb, Mickey Mantle, mystery, Nancy Finley, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Paul Tremblay, Pennsylvania, Robert B. Parker, Sea Change, Texas, The Hunting Wives, The Man Who Liked to Look At Himself, The Pallbearers Club, The Secrets We Kept, the stranger, thriller, USSR ·
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“You can bid your parents farewell without forgiving them. You don’t have to love them.”

A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad's an Alcoholic by Mariko Kikuchi

July 11, 2022 by GentleRain 1 Comment

The translation of autobiographical manga has been a wonderful side effect of the overall boom in popularity of manga/anime. The original manga boom in the early 2000s overlooked memoir, but as the market has matured and the comics boom has entered a new phase, memoir is finally being translated in the US, which is a real treat for me. A Life Turned Upside Down is a very sad and graphic memoir that explores the impact of having an alcoholic father, especially when everyone around the child […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: abusive relationships, alcoholism, child abuse, domestic violence, Mariko Kikuchi, suicide

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:72 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: abusive relationships, alcoholism, child abuse, domestic violence, Mariko Kikuchi, suicide ·
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The Losers

The Alcoholics by Jim Thompson

Miami Purity by Vicki Hendricks

May 3, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

I knocked out two quickie noir tales yesterday, both about sad sacks trying to get through life. One I liked way more than the other. The Alcoholics Jim Thompson 2 stars The Year of Jim Thompson continues with one of his more forgettable works. The New York Review of Books described it as “satire with a bludgeon” and I suppose that’s true because I felt bludgeoned by this one. If you like your satire this heavy handed, this one may work. But it didn’t for me. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: alcoholism, Jim Thompson, Miami, Miami Purty, Noir, The Alcoholics, Vicki Hendricks

Jake's CBR12 Review No:81 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: alcoholism, Jim Thompson, Miami, Miami Purty, Noir, The Alcoholics, Vicki Hendricks ·
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