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And the Headstones Climbed up the Hill

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones

January 23, 2019 by Ellesfena 1 Comment

Last year I read Nicholas and Alexandra and discovered a whole new, extremely specific genre that I love: nonfiction books about some point in time where everything came together in a very particular way that changed the entire course of history. I’m very pleased to say that Dreamland is now the second book I can add to that category (which really needs a snappier name). Dreamland is actually two stories which fit together perfectly to create something really terrible: it’s the story of Purdue Pharma’s […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: drugs, heroin, opiates, opioids, oxycontin, Sam Quinones

Ellesfena's CBR11 Review No:1 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: drugs, heroin, opiates, opioids, oxycontin, Sam Quinones ·
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To run a shtinker, you have to see the broken heart inside the deadest pan.

December 28, 2016 by borisanne 8 Comments

My first Chabon! OOOOOOF. WOW. Holy crap, you guys, did you know that his prose is exceptional and that there’s no exposition, and that he creates an utterly believable alternate timeline and a narrative that ramps up until you’re flying down the other side of the rollercoaster with no brakes? Are they all like this? Is my brain going to melt? How have I missed out this my entire adult life? Full disclosure: it took me a really long time to gather momentum with “The […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alaska, CBR8, Chabon, chess, Fiction, heroin, Israel, jerusalem, jewish, jews, Literature, Michael Chabon, murder, Native American, rabbis, the mob, yid, yids

borisanne's CBR8 Review No:53 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alaska, CBR8, Chabon, chess, Fiction, heroin, Israel, jerusalem, jewish, jews, Literature, Michael Chabon, murder, Native American, rabbis, the mob, yid, yids ·
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