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April 2023 Leftovers

Lady Boss by Jackie Collins

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

Flux by Jinwoo Choo

The Cutie by Donald Westlake

The Boy with the Faster Brain by Peter Shankman

The Widening Gyre by Robert B. Parker

May 2, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Happy spring! Lady Boss** So after two books and almost 2k pages of enough internalized misogyny to make Phyllis Schlafly blush, with stories chock full of men and women who will literally hump anyone and anything, Jackie Collins suddenly decides to make Lucky purchase a movie studio…in order to get rid of casting couches and male dominance in favor of female-driven movies that are less horny. What? Whatever. I’ll still keep reading this garbage. The Hunting Party*** I was prepared to write about this being […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: #Science Fiction, ADHD, Boston, Donald Westlake, Flux, hard case crime, Jackie Collins, Jinwoo Choo, Lady Boss, Lucky Santangelo, Lucy Foley, mystery, New York City, Peter Shankman, politics, Robert B. Parker, Spenser, The Boy with the Faster Brain, The Cutie, The Hunting Party, The Widening Gyre

Jake's CBR15 Review No:57 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: #Science Fiction, ADHD, Boston, Donald Westlake, Flux, hard case crime, Jackie Collins, Jinwoo Choo, Lady Boss, Lucky Santangelo, Lucy Foley, mystery, New York City, Peter Shankman, politics, Robert B. Parker, Spenser, The Boy with the Faster Brain, The Cutie, The Hunting Party, The Widening Gyre ·
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Hopkinton, Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, Newton, Brookline, and Boston

Boston Strong: A City's Triumph Over Tragedy by Casey Sherman, David Wedge

April 19, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

This is the story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, told from the perspectives of the civilians and police officers who were there that day. A few days ago I watched from my window as an endless stream of marathoners ran past, cheered on by the masses of people who’d showed up to watch despite the drizzly day. I live just a couple of miles from the finish line in Copley Square, so people were looking pretty haggard but thrilled as they passed me. It’s […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, Boston, Casey Sherman, David Wedge, Non-Fiction, terrorism, true crime

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:26 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, Boston, Casey Sherman, David Wedge, Non-Fiction, terrorism, true crime ·
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The Departed

At End of Day by George V. Higgins

April 4, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Been reading a lot of Boston crime novels lately so it made sense for me to finally circle back to George V. Higgins’ final work. My journey with Higgins is an interesting one. I first read The Friends of Eddie Coyle ten years ago and while I thought it was good, I really had no idea how to appreciate. Its dialogue-heavy approach with a large heap of verisimilitude made me feel like I was reading transcripts of a conversation between gangsters and cops rather than a typical […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: At End of Day, Boston, crime, George V. Higgins, White Bulger

Jake's CBR15 Review No:44 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: At End of Day, Boston, crime, George V. Higgins, White Bulger ·
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March 2023 Leftovers

The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell

The Terra-Cotta Dog by Andrea Cammalleri

Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson

Tina, Mafia Soldier by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli

The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz

An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder by Susan Wels

Every Man a King by Walter Mosley

The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates

Robert B. Parker's Lullaby by Ace Atkins

The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker

Play the Fool by Lina Chern

April 2, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Man, that month went fast The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion**** I might have a lot more to say about this one had I finished it weeks ago but I’ll be honest, I’m starting to hit my limit on books about tech geniuses that the public discovers aren’t all they’re cracked up to be only after they’re handed billions of dollars. Theranos, Uber and now WeWork all run by self-glorifying con artists. This book is as well done as the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, Ace Atkins, Adam Neumann, an assassin in utopia, Andrea Cammalleri, Boston, Charles Joseph Guiteau, corporate nonsense, eight perfect murders, Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell, Every Man a King, feminism, hard case crime, Inspector Montalbano, isolation, James Garfield, Joyce Carol Oates, Julia Bartz, King Oliver, Lina Chern, lullaby, Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, mystery, new york, Peter Swanson, Play the Fool, presidential assassinations, Robert B. Parker, Robert B. Parker's Lullaby, Sicily, Spenser, Susan Wels, tarot reading, The Cult of We, The Godwulf Manuscript, the terra-cotta dog, The Triumph of the Spider Monkey, the writing retreat, tina mafia soldier, true crime, walter mosley, WeWork

Jake's CBR15 Review No:43 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, Ace Atkins, Adam Neumann, an assassin in utopia, Andrea Cammalleri, Boston, Charles Joseph Guiteau, corporate nonsense, eight perfect murders, Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell, Every Man a King, feminism, hard case crime, Inspector Montalbano, isolation, James Garfield, Joyce Carol Oates, Julia Bartz, King Oliver, Lina Chern, lullaby, Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, mystery, new york, Peter Swanson, Play the Fool, presidential assassinations, Robert B. Parker, Robert B. Parker's Lullaby, Sicily, Spenser, Susan Wels, tarot reading, The Cult of We, The Godwulf Manuscript, the terra-cotta dog, The Triumph of the Spider Monkey, the writing retreat, tina mafia soldier, true crime, walter mosley, WeWork ·
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Generational Trauma

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

March 21, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

“Will anything save me from this months-long reading slump I’m in?” so I cried. Deepti Kapoor’s Age of Vice came close but I think that was largely due to the fact that I haven’t read many stories set in India so I didn’t know the familiar tips and tricks Stateside writers do. Aside from that one, I’ve read a lot of good stuff this year but I’ve also quit a lot because…well I don’t know the “because.” Have my standards gotten higher? Am I just tired of […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Boston, crime, Dennis Lehane, Massachusetts, Mystic River

Jake's CBR15 Review No:31 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Boston, crime, Dennis Lehane, Massachusetts, Mystic River ·
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A meta murder mystery about writing murder mysteries.

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

October 29, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

I had a really good time with this book. I am honestly pleased with most mysteries that I read because something about the genre makes me inherently happy, but I am always very excited when I find one that goes above and beyond the expectations of the genre, and plays around a little. This one definitely did that. It was like brain candy for me. A little treat. The book is split into two parts, the first being a rough draft of a murder mystery […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: book within a book, Boston, meta, mystery, narfna, Sulari Gentill, Suspense, the woman in the library

narfna's CBR14 Review No:168 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: book within a book, Boston, meta, mystery, narfna, Sulari Gentill, Suspense, the woman in the library ·
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