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May-July Leftovers

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

City of Dreams by Don Winslow

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright

Under Color of Law by Aaron Philip Clark

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

The Last Quarry by Max Allan Collins

Tripwire by Jack Reacher

Baby Moll by John Farris

Only the Dead Know Brooklyn by Thomas Boyle

The Laundromat: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess by Evan Drellich

X by Davey Davis

Our Last Season: A Writer, A Fan, A Friendship by Harvey Araton

The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín

Hard Rain by Samantha Jayne Allen

The Boys From Biloxi by John Grisham

Ex Machina Book Four by Brian K. Vaughan

Jacket Weather by Mike DeCapite

Straight Cut by Madison Smartt Bell

The Crust on Its Uppers by Derek Raymond

That Kind of Danger by Donna Masini

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

Spenser Confidential by Ace Atkins

Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead

Weyward by Emilia Hart

The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon, I Mean Noel by Ellen Raskin

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

July 30, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

I usually do these at the end of the month but then I went through a big reading slump March-May. And then I roared back but realized I was behind. So apologies for this being so long. There Will Be Fire **** A good, readable text on a moment in history I knew little about. Even after reading Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing, I still had a lot of problem keeping track of all the socio-political dynamics so it’s good that Rory Carroll makes it accessible […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #biography, #IRA, #Science Fiction, 1970s, Aaron Philip Clark, abortion, Ace Atkins, an absolutely remarkable thing, Annie McIntyre, Baby Moll, Baseball, basketball, bdsm, Biblical times, Boston, Brian K. Vaughan, Brooklyn, cheating, City of Dreams, climate change, Colm Toibin, Colson Whitehead, crime, Crook Manifesto, Davey Davis, Derek Raymond, don winslow, Donna Masini, Ellen Raskin, Emilia Hart, europe, Evan Drellich, Ex Machina Book Four, Florida, friendship, gambling, grady hendrix, Graphic Novel, hank green, hard case crime, Hard Rain, harlem, Harvey Araton, historical fiction, hitman, Hollywood, Houston Astros, Jack Reacher, Jacket Weather, Jake Bernstein, jennifer wright, Jesus Christ, John Farris, John Grisham, Jonathan Lethem, LAPD, legal fiction, LGBTQIA, los angeles, Madame Restell, Madison Smartt Bell, magic realism, Margaret Thatcher, Mary, Max Allan Collins, Mike DeCapite, mississippi, Money Laundering, Motherless Brooklyn, movies, music, mystery, New York City, New York Knicks, Northern Ireland, Only the Dead Know Brooklyn, Our Last Season, Panama Papers, Peter Swanson, poetry, police, Quarry, Ray Carney, Rory Carroll, Samantha Jayne Allen, Spenser, Spenser Confidential, sports, Straight Cut, Texas, That Kind of Danger, The Boys From Biloxi, the carls, The Crust on Its Uppers, The Kind Worth Killing, The Last Quarry, The Laundromat, the Mysterious Disappearance of Leon I mean Noel, the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires, the testament of mary, The Troubles, There Will Be Fire, Thomas Boyle, thriller, Trevor Finnegan, Tripwire, true crime, Under Color of Law, United Kingdom, Weyward, Winning Fixes Everything, witches, X

Jake's CBR15 Review No:103 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #biography, #IRA, #Science Fiction, 1970s, Aaron Philip Clark, abortion, Ace Atkins, an absolutely remarkable thing, Annie McIntyre, Baby Moll, Baseball, basketball, bdsm, Biblical times, Boston, Brian K. Vaughan, Brooklyn, cheating, City of Dreams, climate change, Colm Toibin, Colson Whitehead, crime, Crook Manifesto, Davey Davis, Derek Raymond, don winslow, Donna Masini, Ellen Raskin, Emilia Hart, europe, Evan Drellich, Ex Machina Book Four, Florida, friendship, gambling, grady hendrix, Graphic Novel, hank green, hard case crime, Hard Rain, harlem, Harvey Araton, historical fiction, hitman, Hollywood, Houston Astros, Jack Reacher, Jacket Weather, Jake Bernstein, jennifer wright, Jesus Christ, John Farris, John Grisham, Jonathan Lethem, LAPD, legal fiction, LGBTQIA, los angeles, Madame Restell, Madison Smartt Bell, magic realism, Margaret Thatcher, Mary, Max Allan Collins, Mike DeCapite, mississippi, Money Laundering, Motherless Brooklyn, movies, music, mystery, New York City, New York Knicks, Northern Ireland, Only the Dead Know Brooklyn, Our Last Season, Panama Papers, Peter Swanson, poetry, police, Quarry, Ray Carney, Rory Carroll, Samantha Jayne Allen, Spenser, Spenser Confidential, sports, Straight Cut, Texas, That Kind of Danger, The Boys From Biloxi, the carls, The Crust on Its Uppers, The Kind Worth Killing, The Last Quarry, The Laundromat, the Mysterious Disappearance of Leon I mean Noel, the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires, the testament of mary, The Troubles, There Will Be Fire, Thomas Boyle, thriller, Trevor Finnegan, Tripwire, true crime, Under Color of Law, United Kingdom, Weyward, Winning Fixes Everything, witches, X ·
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“With this book, I wanted to pit a man freed from all responsibilities but his appetites against women whose lives are shaped by their endless responsibilities. I wanted to pit Dracula against my mom. As you’ll see, it’s not a fair fight.”

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

April 3, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

Despite very recently giving five stars to the latest Grady Hendrix weirdo horror book (review HERE), I was surprised by how much I liked this. As I’ve been exploring the horror genre over the past year, I’ve learned that my tastes usually run towards the lighter end of the horror spectrum, and that I don’t do well with gore and violence just for gore and violence’s sake*. I need that sort of thing to have a purpose, and I need it to not make me […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Horror Tagged With: audiobooks, Bahni Turpin, grady hendrix, historical fiction, horror, narfna, Satire, Southern Gothic, the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires, vampires

narfna's CBR15 Review No:39 · Genres: Audiobooks, Horror · Tags: audiobooks, Bahni Turpin, grady hendrix, historical fiction, horror, narfna, Satire, Southern Gothic, the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires, vampires ·
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What’s worse than ghosts? Puppets.

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

March 31, 2023 by Scootchyknees Leave a Comment

So I wasn’t a fan of Horrorstor and had no interest in reading more of Hendrix’s books, but I couldn’t help grabbing How to Sell a Haunted House. I’m not even sure why. Honestly, I think it was just the cover. I mean, maybe we just got off on the wrong foot with Horrorstor and needed a second date to figure out if the chemistry really worked or not. This may come as a surprise, but this story is about a haunted house. But even worse, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: grady hendrix, How to Sell and Haunted House, skootchyknees

Scootchyknees's CBR15 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: grady hendrix, How to Sell and Haunted House, skootchyknees ·
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The Velveteen Rabbit, Unanticipated Puppet Gore, and The Stages of Grief

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

March 25, 2023 by Flimflamingo 3 Comments

The thing about Grady Hendrix novels is that I read them without bothering to read the synopses anymore. It is enough for me to see his name on the cover when Quirk Books posts about an upcoming release or I’m on my Netgalley and a new title of his pops up on my available ARCs. To me, he is a known quantity. The books of his I haven’t read are ones that I just haven’t made time for. He is, to me, a guaranteed book […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Children, Death, exorcism, ghosts, grady hendrix, grief, Haunted, How to Sell a Haunted House, parents, puppets

Flimflamingo's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Children, Death, exorcism, ghosts, grady hendrix, grief, Haunted, How to Sell a Haunted House, parents, puppets ·
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“She checked underneath the sink but didn’t see anything that might destroy an evil puppet.”

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

January 31, 2023 by narfna 7 Comments

It’s been a couple of weeks now since I read this, and it’s only gotten better in my memory. I was originally hemming and hawing about whether or not my initial inclination to give this five stars was the right thing to do, but no, I was right. This book deserves five stars. I’ll get into specifics in the next paragraph, but for now if you want to go in cold on this one but still have an idea of what you’re in for, the […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: grady hendrix, horror, How to Sell a Haunted House, narfna

narfna's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Horror · Tags: grady hendrix, horror, How to Sell a Haunted House, narfna ·
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Doesn’t live up to its premise, but there are some bright spots

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

December 7, 2022 by Bothari43 Leave a Comment

I agree with all the mixed reviews I’ve read so far. This one has some fun stuff, but also some aggravating stuff, and not nearly enough comeuppance. The good: The true crime lovers banding together to start their own offshoot book club after the overly persnickity neighborhood book club is awful. Patricia realizing the way the world works and initially doing what she can to make things right (Mrs. Greene and the missing children from the “wrong side of the tracks”). The ‘rich white privileged […]

Filed Under: Horror, Suspense Tagged With: book clubs, grady hendrix, horrible sexist husbands, privilege, Southerners, vampires

Bothari43's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Horror, Suspense · Tags: book clubs, grady hendrix, horrible sexist husbands, privilege, Southerners, vampires ·
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