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The Firm But With Ladies

Please Join Us by Catherine McKenzie

May 15, 2023 by Melina Leave a Comment

I was kind of young when The Firm came out with Tom Cruise as the main character but I vaguely remember a secret organization of high powered men pulling strings and using their influence to get what they wanted and uses blackmail as a tactic when members aren’t behaving in the ways they should.  Please Join Us has pretty much the exact same plot. When our main character Nicole finds out that she hasn’t had enough billable hours and that her firm seems to be moving […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Catherine McKenzie, John Grisham, Melina, Please Join Us, the firm

Melina's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Catherine McKenzie, John Grisham, Melina, Please Join Us, the firm ·
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Some Shorts (Evelyn Waugh (1); Italo Calvino (1); Henry James (1); Stephen Graham Jones (1); Cassandra Khaw(1); John Grisham (1); CW Longbottom (1)

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Henry James by A Tragedy of Error

Midnight Caller by Stephen Graham Jones

Don't Turn on the Lights by Cassandra Khaw

The Tumor by John Grisham

Tears of the Anaren by CW Longbottom

Village of Islands by Jim Shepard

February 21, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Loved One “All the day the heat had been barely supportable but at evening a breeze arose in the west, blowing from the heart of the setting sun and from the ocean” I rented the first disc of Six Feet Under from Blockbuster just as soon as the dvds of the first season came out. I remember that one of the first scenes of the show, and the first season of the show was weird, like the ways that the first season of Sex […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: A Tragedy of Error, Cassandra Khaw, CW Longbottom, Evelyn Waugh, Italo Calvino, Jim Shepard, John Grisham, Stephen Graham Jones

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:122 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: A Tragedy of Error, Cassandra Khaw, CW Longbottom, Evelyn Waugh, Italo Calvino, Jim Shepard, John Grisham, Stephen Graham Jones ·
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End of year 2

The Chamber by John Grisham

The Beetle Leg by John Hawkes

The Theater and its Double by Antonin Artaud

Books Do Furnish a Room by Anthony Powell

Temporary Kings by Anthony Powell

Hearing Secret Harmonies by Anthony Powell

December 25, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Dance to the Music of Time Vol 4 – 4/5 Books Do Furnish a Room This is the 10th (10th!!) book in the series and after the foray in the war, we’re right back where we started: discussing marriages and books in the UK. Specifically, we’re looking into the post-war publishing industry and discussing the state of literature now in 1945 or so. So where are? Well the Moderns (sic) have hung it up and we’ve moved into some other kind of thing that can’t […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: anthony powell, Antonin Artaud, John Grisham, John Hawkes, Wu Cheng'en

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:691 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: anthony powell, Antonin Artaud, John Grisham, John Hawkes, Wu Cheng'en ·
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End of Year 1

The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

Hamlet's Enemey by Theodore Lidz

Killing Floor by Lee Child

The Client by John Grisham

God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens

The Uplift War by David Brin

Monkey by Wu Cheng'en

Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard

December 22, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Winter of Our Discontent – 4/5 This is John Steinbeck’s last novel and it begins with our narrator, Ethan Allen Hawley, trying to reckon with what it’s like to have once had money and then not to. He’s a veteran who came home to find his father had squandered the family fortune to make a risky investment (war profiteering) that didn’t pan out. So now a while on, married with two kids, Ethan works out a grocery store for an Italian ex-pat. He’s offered […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Christopher Hitchens, david brin, Elmore Leonard, John Grisham, john steinbeck, lee child, Theodore Lidz, Wu Cheng'en

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:684 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Christopher Hitchens, david brin, Elmore Leonard, John Grisham, john steinbeck, lee child, Theodore Lidz, Wu Cheng'en ·
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The Rainmaker

The Rainmaker by John Grisham

September 20, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: John Grisham

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:538 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: John Grisham ·
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The Runaway Jury

The Runaway Jury by John Grisham

July 23, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, Holiday, John Grisham

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:384 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, Holiday, John Grisham ·
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