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Oh the horror! (Oh, the not horror)

Red Pill by Hari Kunzru

Enderby Outside by Anthony Burgess

Katie by Michael McDowell

The Night Boat by Robert R. McCammon

Children of the Night by Dan Simmons

Blue World by Robert R. McCammon

Blue World and Other Stories by Robert R. McCammon

Enderby's Dark Lady by Anthony Burgess

Bethany's Sin by Robert R. McCammon

A Clockwork Testament by Anthony Burgess

The Fight by Norman Mailer

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Red Pill – 3/5 This novel came out in 2019, but leads up to and ends at the 2016 US presidential race. There’s also plenty of energy connected to the Brexit vote too given that both Kunzru and his narrator are British. The novel begins with a writer being accepted into a fellowship program in Germany near the Wannsee building famous for the Wannsee Conference where Heydrich and Eichmann, among other Nazi officials, hammered out some of the details of the “Final Solution”. This, as […]

July 2022 Leftovers

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipies from Tha Boss Dogg's Kitchen by Snoop Dogg

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

Plunder of the Sun by David Dodge

Stunt: A Mythical Reimagining of Nellie Jackson, Madame of Natchez by Saida Agostini

The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, A Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation by Rich Cohen

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook Files of Martin Ehrengraf by Lawrence Block

Voluntary Madness by Vicki Hendricks

Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: A Most Excellent Comedie and Tragic Romance by Adam Bertocci

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir by Daniel Barban Levin

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

My Summer Darlings by May Cobb

The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa

Firestarter by Stephen King

The Editor by Steven Rowley

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Crossroad Blues by Ace Atkins

Lucky by Jackie Collins

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Here are reviews for the books I read in July that I didn’t have time or energy to do a full review on. Note: I was out of work in July so I read a lot. The Woman in Cabin 10 *** Read this while on a cruise ship and it definitely gave me some interesting feelings! A relatively entertaining thriller. I’d read another Ruth Ware book but wouldn’t rush out to do so From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes From Tha Boss Dogg’s Kitchen**** […]

Inside Mr Enderby

Inside Mr Enderby by Anthony Burgess

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The first of a series of four novels written within a 20 year span in which a kind of literary alter ego for Anthony Burgess takes center stage. Enderby is a middle-aged poet, a consummate bachelor who lives with his stepmother, and composes his poetry (which is published to derision and mockery) on the toilet. When his stepmother dies, he is sent on a spiral where at one point he ends up very drunk in a bar adlibbing poetry to a woman whose husband would […]

A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (1962)

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

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I think my trajectory for this book is similar to a lot of people’s (especially boys–>men) which is that I saw the movie first, at a way too young age, and could not really process or make sense of any ideas, other than salaciousness of it (not good!) and the stunning visuals and audio in the film. Then in college I read the book and realized there was a lot more to it in general, at least a final moment that challenges the rest of […]

Somebody had to do it.

Byrne by Anthony Burgess

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The opening line of this drawer novel in verse found among Anthony Burgess’s papers after his death is “Somebody had to do it.” and well, agree to disagree. The is short, a little over a hundred pages, and the story involves the long life of an Irish poet who finds himself among all sorts of sorts in the 20th century as he bandies about his world. It’s kind of a novel in complain, and while I am no poetry expert, it feels quite artificial. The […]

In pursuance of my duties of literary executor of the author of whom this, his first published posthumous work, is herewith offered to the delectation of some readers and the undoubted bewilderment of others…

The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess

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So what is this novel? Well, it’s a kind of a collection of novellas — three, a science fiction novel taking place in the year 2000 as a giant planet called LYNX is coming unbearably close the Earth, threatening to destroy all life there and abscond with the moon while a high school teacher who first denies the existence of the planet is then mad that he won’t be selected to help with the solution to save humanity (escape on a kind of ark); the […]



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