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“Towards the end of my first time in Indonesia I stayed in a house on the edge of the jungle and dreamed the worst nightmares I have known since I was a child.”

In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos by Richard Lloyd Parry

July 6, 2023 by GentleRain 2 Comments

CBR15Bingo: Asia & Oceania (all about Indonesia and experiencing the uprising that unseated Suharto) I picked this up because I loved The People Who Eat Darkness, Parry’s later work about trying to catch a murderer in Japan. It is such a great book that I’ve been wanting to read other work by him, so I was happy to find out that he’d written this part memoir, part on the spot reporting about the time he’d spent in Indonesia as a young journalist. I didn’t know […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, cbr15bingo, Indonesia, journalism, political violence, Richard Lloyd Parry

GentleRain's CBR15 Review No:37 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, cbr15bingo, Indonesia, journalism, political violence, Richard Lloyd Parry ·
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The graphic novel, "Transmetropolitan: Lust for Life" by Warren Ellis and others standing next to a completely filled out bingo card.

Can’t think of a title, too excited to announce Bingo #10,11, & 12 – Black Out!

Transmetropolitan volume 2: Lust for Life by Warren Ellis (author), Darick Robertson (penciller), Kim Demulder (inker), Rodney Ramos (inker), Nathan Eyring (colorist), Clem Robbins (letterer)

November 13, 2022 by Dome'Loki 3 Comments

CBR14 Bingo: “Bird” – Because there are birds on the cover and Spider Jerusalem figuratively flips the bird to the world on the regular. Warren Ellis’ “Transmetropolitan” comic series is set in a not terribly distant, messy, chaotic future (far from any idea of a future utopia) with one lone journalist intent on telling the truth, Spider Jerusalem.  As described by a friend, he is “a dirty bastard and a moral vacuum, but you couldn’t have a better friend.”  Through Spider, Ellis gives a blistering […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr14, cbr14bingo, Clem Robbins, Darick Robertson, Dome'Loki, journalism, Kim Demulder, Nathan Eyring, Rodney Ramos, Spider Jerusalem, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis (author), Darick Robertson (penciller), Kim Demulder (inker), Rodney Ramos (inker), Nathan Eyring (colorist), Clem Robbins (letterer)

Dome'Loki's CBR14 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr14, cbr14bingo, Clem Robbins, Darick Robertson, Dome'Loki, journalism, Kim Demulder, Nathan Eyring, Rodney Ramos, Spider Jerusalem, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis (author), Darick Robertson (penciller), Kim Demulder (inker), Rodney Ramos (inker), Nathan Eyring (colorist), Clem Robbins (letterer) ·
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Why is this Man Mad?

Understudy for Death by Charles Willeford

September 10, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR14Bingo: font. The book is told from the perspective of a journalist. Several times throughout the novel, the font of the novel will change when an article that the journalist or someone else writes is inserted in the story.  It’s going to be tough to squeeze 250 words out of here but I’ll try. I was planning on dumping this with my end-of-the-month reads but it checked the “font” box off CBR Bingo so… Charles Willeford loves writing about domesticity. And while he’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, Charles Willeford, hard case crime, journalism, Understudy for Death

Jake's CBR14 Review No:167 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, Charles Willeford, hard case crime, journalism, Understudy for Death ·
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A Fun Romance/Mystery, Perfect for the Beach or the Airport

Hello, Summer by Mary Kay Andrews

June 23, 2022 by GentleRain 2 Comments

I am someone who is very sensitive to the formatting and trim size of a novel, so I think a lot of my enjoyment in this novel was partially related to how much I liked the mass market formatting they used. A couple of years ago a lot of publishing companies switched to this taller, skinnier format that doesn’t work well with my hands, but the edition I got at the airport of this book was a more squat square format that was perfect. And […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Romance Tagged With: beach read, journalism, Mary Kay Andrews, mystery, Romance, strong female characters

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:62 · Genres: Mystery, Romance · Tags: beach read, journalism, Mary Kay Andrews, mystery, Romance, strong female characters ·
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I Read All About It

The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch by Michael Wolff

November 22, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

This book read like one Bond villain describing the machinations of another Bond villain with relish and glee. I read the first and last of Michael Wolff’s Trump books coming away unimpressed. Wolff gets the hot gossip, such as it is, by being an unrepentant jock sniffer but that’s all these books are: gossip. I never thought I’d read him again but as I’ve cast around for books on Rupert Murdoch in light of my love of the tv show Succession, this one kept coming up […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: FOX News, journalism, MICHAEL WOLFF, Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News

Jake's CBR13 Review No:176 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: FOX News, journalism, MICHAEL WOLFF, Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News ·
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In A Foreign Field

Missionaries by Phil Klay

July 15, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

I usually enjoy former President Barack Obama’s recommended reading lists but, after reading Missionaries, I confess that its presence on his list kind of bugs me. This book is, among other things, a strong handed critique of borderless imperial war and I think it takes a certain kind of cynicism to set that aside and appreciate it solely on its literary value. Because, damn, this book is cynical. How could it not be? Frankly, I knew little about Colombia until reading it. I knew Simón Bolivar liberated it […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Colombia, journalism, Missionaries, phil klay, war

Jake's CBR13 Review No:112 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Colombia, journalism, Missionaries, phil klay, war ·
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