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June 2022 Leftovers

The Cage by Bonnie Kistler

Gangsterland by Tod Goldberg

Gone 'Til November by Wallace Stroby

Cover Story by Susan Rigetti

Survivor's Guilt by Robyn Gigl

The Old Man by Thomas Perry

Iron Annie by Luke Cassidy

The Drop by Michael Connelly

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw

Barbed Wire Heart by Tess Sharpe

Amateur City by Katherine V. Forrest

Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

The Fury of Blacky Jaguar by Angel Luis Colón

He Kills Coppers by Jake Arnott

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

June 30, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

I was dealing with work turmoil and on vacation for most of June so I didn’t get the chance to write as many in depth reviews as I’d have liked to. Which is a shame because some of these deserved a longer look; I just didn’t have the time or energy… The Cage **** I went back-and-forth on my review. I’ve been giving out a lot of 4-star reviews lately and considered docking the book for that reason since it’s very borderline. But the more I […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Amateur City, Angel Luis Colón, Anna Delvy, Aristophanes, Barbed Wire Heart, Blacky Jaguar, Bonnie Kistler, Booth, Cat Person, CIA, Cover Story, David Nasaw, England, Erin McCabe, espionage, fashion, Florida, gangsterland, Gone Til November, Greece, harry bosch, He Kills Coppers, historical fiction, Ireland, Iron Annie, Jake Arnott, john wilkes booth, Joseph P. Kennedy, Judaism, karen joy fowler, Kate Delafield, Katherine V. Forrest, Las Vegas, legal thriller, LGBTQIA, los angeles, Luke Cassidy, Lysistrata, mafia, Michael Connelly, mystery, new jersey, New York City, Peloponnesian War, Play, Robyn Gigl, Sal Cupertine, Survivors Guilt, Susan Rigetti, Tess Sharpe, The Cage, The Drop, The Fury of Blacky Jaguar, The Old Man, The Patriarch, Thomas Perry, thriller, tod goldberg, trans, trans woman, Wallace Stroby

Jake's CBR14 Review No:115 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Amateur City, Angel Luis Colón, Anna Delvy, Aristophanes, Barbed Wire Heart, Blacky Jaguar, Bonnie Kistler, Booth, Cat Person, CIA, Cover Story, David Nasaw, England, Erin McCabe, espionage, fashion, Florida, gangsterland, Gone Til November, Greece, harry bosch, He Kills Coppers, historical fiction, Ireland, Iron Annie, Jake Arnott, john wilkes booth, Joseph P. Kennedy, Judaism, karen joy fowler, Kate Delafield, Katherine V. Forrest, Las Vegas, legal thriller, LGBTQIA, los angeles, Luke Cassidy, Lysistrata, mafia, Michael Connelly, mystery, new jersey, New York City, Peloponnesian War, Play, Robyn Gigl, Sal Cupertine, Survivors Guilt, Susan Rigetti, Tess Sharpe, The Cage, The Drop, The Fury of Blacky Jaguar, The Old Man, The Patriarch, Thomas Perry, thriller, tod goldberg, trans, trans woman, Wallace Stroby ·
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Lincoln was late to his own assassination.

October 6, 2015 by narfna 11 Comments

There’s something about the way Sarah Vowell writes about history that brings it to life for me. Probably because there’s something about the way that Sarah Vowell writes about people, and history is made of people. It often doesn’t feel that way. (Ironically, there’s a section in here where she tells a story about a time where she ended up yelling at some guy in a supermarket about how the only time it would be interesting to live through history would be if you were […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: abraham lincoln, assassination vacation, charles guiteau, edwin booth, essays, history, humor, james a. garfield, john wilkes booth, leon czolgosz, narfna, Non-Fiction, robert todd lincoln, Sarah Vowell, William McKinley

narfna's CBR7 Review No:134 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: abraham lincoln, assassination vacation, charles guiteau, edwin booth, essays, history, humor, james a. garfield, john wilkes booth, leon czolgosz, narfna, Non-Fiction, robert todd lincoln, Sarah Vowell, William McKinley ·
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