The Less Dead by Denise Mina
As I am often so critical of stories that use adoption and/or foster care as a plot device for tragedy or a reveal as to why the Big Bad is so Bad with their Badness, allow me to sing the praise of one that does adoption mostly well. At least from my point of view, which is not one of an adoptee. I’m the parent of an adoptee so it provides me some insight but, obviously, that doesn’t compare. Still, from what I do know, […]
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Rizzio by Denise Mina
This way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
Hits and Misses by Simon Rich
Proto Zoa by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Last Days of August by Jon Ronson
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: Or, How Capitalism Works - and How It Fails by Yanis Varoufakis
CBR14Bingo – Shadow – In the novel, even though it’s ostensibly about the “Buffalo Bill” killings, Hannibal Lecter is always there and always present in mind. – Silence of the Lambs – 3/5 Stars This is a book that for some godforsaken reason my seventh grade English teacher not only let me read for a class assignment but also let me make a stick-figure puppet theater for key scenes. The early 1990s were the Wild Wild West truly. It’s an interesting book that is mostly […]
Garnethill by Denise Mina
This is for my OLD SERIES bingo square. TW: Sexual assault survivor story I’ve been waiting a long time to read this book – it was one of the first books I added to my GoodReads list. It’s a murder mystery that takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, which are a few of my favorite things. Maureen O’Donnell works at a box office in a theater. She doesn’t feel like she has much going on, besides a cute flat in the Garnethill neighborhood and a married […]
Conviction by Denise Mina
Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death by Donald Westlake
Been doing a lot of reading to pass the time during the quarantine. I finished these two books back to back, both were good in their own respective ways. So here are the reviews… Conviction I didn’t mean for this to be my first Denise Mina book. I’ve tried and failed twice to get into Garenthill. But the premise seemed too good to pass up and I thought it would be a fun pleasure read. It starts off rocky. The main character, whose perspective we get first […]
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Vol. 2 by Denise Mina
Guys, I’m begging you. Don’t even bother with this series, whether or not you’ve read the original trilogy. If you’re a fan, it’s just going to piss you off. And if you’re a noob, you’re just going to wonder why everyone is obsessed with this piece of crap story. Denise Mina absolutely ruins her adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, and the worst part is, it seems to have been done on purpose. I read Vol. 1 of this series last year, which adapted the […]
