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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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Rest Ye, Merry Gentleman

The Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay

October 17, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR14 Bingo: cozy. The main character is a narcoleptic and his body frequently drags him off into a deep, cozy sleep.  It’s clear that I need to read more of Paul Tremblay’s work. While I didn’t love The Pallbearer’s Club, I enjoyed Tremblay’s writing style. He came across as accessible and fun, someone I could easily digest while providing enough pathos for his protagonists to feel like they are more than literary ciphers. I grabbed this on a lark in a bookstore, […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Boston, cbr14bingo, Mark Genevich, mystery, narcolepsy, Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

Jake's CBR14 Review No:184 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Boston, cbr14bingo, Mark Genevich, mystery, narcolepsy, Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep ·
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Does Crime Pay?

Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Paul Castellano by Andris Kurins and Joseph F. O'Brien

Sacred by Dennis Lehane

April 11, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

I hadn’t meant to review these books together but I finished Sacred sooner than I anticipated and it just makes sense to cover them both in one review…   Boss of Bosses I just finished rewatching The Godfather in honor of its 50th anniversary and I decided to tackle this one because the agents applied the movie title as a sobriquet for Paul Castellano, the mob boss of the Gambino crime family who is perhaps most famous as being the guy in John Gotti’s way that got killed in […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Andris Kurins and Joseph F. O'Brien, Boss of Bosses, Boston, Dennis Lehane, FBI, Kenzie and Gennaro, mafia, mystery, New York City, Paul Castellano, Sacred, tampa, true crime

Jake's CBR14 Review No:55 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Andris Kurins and Joseph F. O'Brien, Boss of Bosses, Boston, Dennis Lehane, FBI, Kenzie and Gennaro, mafia, mystery, New York City, Paul Castellano, Sacred, tampa, true crime ·
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January 2022 Leftovers

Hit Parade by Lawrence Block

Sex Criminals, Volume 1: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky

Devils In Exile by Chuck Hogan

Ex Machina, The Deluxe Edition: Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan

A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny

Munich by Robert Harris

Shella by Andrew Vachss

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler

The Accomplice by Lisa Lutz

No One Will Miss Her by Kat Rosenfeld

The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

The Second Sleep by Robert Harris

February 2, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

My resolution for Cannonball Read in 2022 is to only write reviews where I feel like I have much to say and then dump the others in a singular post at the end of the month to track how much I’ve read. This’ll spare me from writing 250+ words about books that I can’t even think of a hundred for. So… Hit Parade **** I enjoy these books and while this is the one I maybe enjoyed the least (did EVERY story need cutaway conversations with […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery Tagged With: #history, A Trick of the Light, Africa, agatha christie, Andrew Vachss, Blitzed Drugs in the Third Reich, Boston, Brian K. Vaughan, Canada, Chuck Hogan, crime, Devils In Exile, drugs, espionage, Ex Machina, Graphic Novel, historical fiction, Hit Parade, hitmen, Inspector Gamache, Kat Rosenfeld, Keller, lawrence block, Lisa Lutz, Louise Penny, Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky, Munich, Nazi Germany, New York City, No One Will Miss Her, Norman Ohler, politics, Robert Harris, sex, sex criminals, Shella, superheroes, The Accomplice, The Man in the Brown Suit, The Second Sleep, vol. 2, World War II

Jake's CBR14 Review No:24 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery · Tags: #history, A Trick of the Light, Africa, agatha christie, Andrew Vachss, Blitzed Drugs in the Third Reich, Boston, Brian K. Vaughan, Canada, Chuck Hogan, crime, Devils In Exile, drugs, espionage, Ex Machina, Graphic Novel, historical fiction, Hit Parade, hitmen, Inspector Gamache, Kat Rosenfeld, Keller, lawrence block, Lisa Lutz, Louise Penny, Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky, Munich, Nazi Germany, New York City, No One Will Miss Her, Norman Ohler, politics, Robert Harris, sex, sex criminals, Shella, superheroes, The Accomplice, The Man in the Brown Suit, The Second Sleep, vol. 2, World War II ·
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