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The Rainmaker

The Rainmaker by John Grisham

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This is one of those other kinds of John Grisham novels. In general, even among his legal thrillers, there’s two types of John Grisham novels. The tightly-plotted thriller like The Pelican Brief or The Runaway Jury is one type. In this type, the pacing is fast, it’s a puzzle being formed in front of you, and it often involves a silly amount of machination and design to bring home a twisty kind of ending. In the other, like A Time to Kill and here, The […]

The Runaway Jury

The Runaway Jury by John Grisham

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CBR Bingo 14 – Holiday This book was on the shelf on my AirBnb this past week when I really needed something, not very taxing, to read and my books were failing me. I read this on vacation so if I liked it more than I might otherwise, blame that. I picked this up, had no clue what it was going to be about, and loved every stupid second of it. The novel begins with a just expert consulting group group spying on a man […]

The Pelican Brief – John Grisham (1992)

The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

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This is the third John Grisham novel, and it’s the first one I remember coming out and being famous, after John Grisham was becoming famous. So it was the first NEW John Grisham being passed around by the adults in my life. It has a similar structure to The Firm in a way of promising something huge in concept and then being much smaller in execution. (The Firm’s big reveal feels so laughably small by the time we get to it, and this one has […]

A Beach Read on the Beach

Camino Island by John Grisham

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The wildest thing about this John Grisham book is that it’s not about lawyers. Our man John instead focuses on writers, books, heists, and French furntiure. It’s a welcome and pleasant departure for the reader as much as I’m sure it is for Grisham. It’s a fun little novel that would probably make a nice little Netflix limited run series. Or Paramount+, mayhaps. If you like fun but relaxing beach reads with a little bit of danger and sexiness – here you go.   Mercer […]

In the spring, in the suburbs of New Orleans–Metairie, Jefferson, Lafayette–hang wreaths on their front doors.

Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite

Moonstone by Sjon

Nothing But the Truth by Avi

Slouching Toward Kalamazoo by Peter De Vries

A Time to Kill by John Grisham

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Lost Souls – 4/5 Stars I dunno if you’re into Southern, druggy, Queer, crusty, Goth vampire novels from the early 1990s, but is definitely one. Maybe you thought Lost Boys was too clean, so this one would be for you. We begin with a small bartender in New Orleans serving a drink to a teenage girl when three vampires (and vampires is a fluid term in this book with some specific definitions herein) roll in. The lead vampire–beautifully, alluring, dangerous–has sex with and impregnates the […]

He was of medium height, somewhat chubby, and good looking, with curly red hair and an innocent, gay face, more remarkable for a humorous air about the eyes and large mouth more than for any strength of chin or nobility of nose.

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

The King of Torts by John Grisham

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The Caine Mutiny – 5/5 Stars A truly wonderful, carefully plotted and thoughtful war and anti-war novel from Herman Wouk, for which he won the Pulitzer in 1952 or so. The novel takes place mainly aboard the “USS Caine,” a minesweeper destroyer that is mostly stationed in Pearl Harbor and other naval bases, and who’s job is to tow artillery targets, clear shipping lanes, and minesweep. In a pinch, it could be used to fight submarines, but that is not the fate here of this […]



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