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Mixed Bag III

Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales by Michael Chabon et

The Final Solution by Michael Chabon

This Telling by Cheryl Strayed

Sweet Virginia by Caroline Kepnes

Shine Pamela Shine by Kate Atkinson

Halfway to Free by Emma Donaghue

Graceful Burdens by Roxanna Gay

Bear Witness by Mark Gaitskill

The Contractors by Lisa Ko

Sun of a Beach by Mia Sosa

The Wonderful Adventure of Nils by Selma Lagerlof

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Thrilling Tales – 2/5 Stars I’ve read this book twice previously and more or less liked a lot of the stories. But this reread was pretty sour for a few reasons. The story collection is ostensibly a genre collection of adventure stories posed off of Michael Chabon’s childhood of reading such stories. There’s probably references in the introduction to Edgar Rice Burroughs and Edgar Wallace and other Edgars. And so, when I bought and read this story in college, I felt more or less that […]

Cold Cases

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

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Jackson Brodie is a divorced ex-cop with a struggling PI business when three cases fall into his lap. After a new clue turns up, sisters Julia and Amelia Land hire Jackson to look into the disappearance of their sister Olivia thirty years ago. Ten years after his daughter’s death in an office shooting, Theo Wyre hires Jackson when his own investigation hits a wall. And Shirley Morrison, whose sister went to jail for the murder of her husband, hires Jackson to find her niece who […]

stories about WOMEN by WOMEN for WOMEN…have I said WOMEN enough yet?

This Telling by Cheryl Strayed

Graceful Burdens by Roxane Gay

Sweet Virginia by Caroline Kepnes

The Contractors by Lisa Ko

Halfway to Free by Emma Donogue

Bear Witness by Mary Gaitskill

Shine, Pamela! Shine! by Kate Atkinson

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I’ve been sitting on this collection for a bit, as I am struggling with articulating how I feel about the group as a whole. Each story can be (and will be) handled individually, but there is something about the overarching themes of the entire collection that has left me at a loss. This is another collection from Amazon; it was free on Kindle Unlimited, I enjoyed their last collection, and I really love Kate Atkinson. Also- I was intrigued by the title: Out of Line- Women […]

Jackson Brodie is a total d***

One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson

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Bingo Square: I Wish. (I thought this was set in Yorkshire but I was wrong, so it’ll have to be for the whole of the UK since I have no idea when I’ll be able to visit again.) *Wasn’t sure about adding expletives to titles but he is. I’ll get to that in a bit. One Good Turn is ostensibly a Jackson Brodie novel, and true, he is in it, but it has many other points of view so it’s often hard to see him […]

Another good outing for Atkinson

One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson

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This second installment in Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie detective series begins with Jackson witnessing a road rage incident at the Edinburgh festival, and from there Atkinson spins out into chapters focusing individually on Jackson and other supporting characters: Martin, a mild-mannered mystery writer; Gloria, the wife of an aging mobster; and Louise, a policewoman who keeps crossing paths with Jackson.  As with Atkinson’s other Jackson Brodie novels, the threads for all these characters eventually wind together in a satisfying way. Although I found this 2nd novel […]

A Serviceable Mystery

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

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I love a good mystery. I can tear through an absorbing mystery in a day, but I slow down for certain mysteries because of the depth of the characters.  While Case Histories moves at a decent clip, the characters are sketched with more mannerisms and exposition than depth. To her credit, though, author Kate Atkinson is quite good at portraying the many forms of grief and loss. While I did not find this mystery very satisfying in the end, I do appreciate the effort that went in […]



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