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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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April 2023 Leftovers

Lady Boss by Jackie Collins

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

Flux by Jinwoo Choo

The Cutie by Donald Westlake

The Boy with the Faster Brain by Peter Shankman

The Widening Gyre by Robert B. Parker

May 2, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Happy spring! Lady Boss** So after two books and almost 2k pages of enough internalized misogyny to make Phyllis Schlafly blush, with stories chock full of men and women who will literally hump anyone and anything, Jackie Collins suddenly decides to make Lucky purchase a movie studio…in order to get rid of casting couches and male dominance in favor of female-driven movies that are less horny. What? Whatever. I’ll still keep reading this garbage. The Hunting Party*** I was prepared to write about this being […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: #Science Fiction, ADHD, Boston, Donald Westlake, Flux, hard case crime, Jackie Collins, Jinwoo Choo, Lady Boss, Lucky Santangelo, Lucy Foley, mystery, New York City, Peter Shankman, politics, Robert B. Parker, Spenser, The Boy with the Faster Brain, The Cutie, The Hunting Party, The Widening Gyre

Jake's CBR15 Review No:57 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: #Science Fiction, ADHD, Boston, Donald Westlake, Flux, hard case crime, Jackie Collins, Jinwoo Choo, Lady Boss, Lucky Santangelo, Lucy Foley, mystery, New York City, Peter Shankman, politics, Robert B. Parker, Spenser, The Boy with the Faster Brain, The Cutie, The Hunting Party, The Widening Gyre ·
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April 2022 Leftovers

Batman, Volume 3: Death in the Family by Scott Snyder

DC: The New Frontier, Volume 1 by Darwyn Cooke

Batman: Curse of the White Knight by Sean Gordon Murphy

Batman, Volume 4: Zero Year-Secret City by Scott Snyder

Chances by Jackie Collins

Batgirl, Volume 1: Batgirl of Burnside by Cameron Stewart

Batman, Volume 5: Zero Year-Dark City by Scott Snyder

Sonny: The Last of the Old Time Mafia Bosses, John "Sonny" Franzeze by S.J. Peddie

The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch

Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman

Call Me a Cab by Donald Westlake

Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen

The Bouncer by David Gordon

Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbø

Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL by R.D. Rosen

Concourse by S.J. Rozan

May 1, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Here are the books I read in April that didn’t merit a full review… Batman, Vol. 3: Death in the Family **** Reading a Batman-v-Joker comic is perfect for April Fools Day. I loved Scott Snyder’s Court of Owls run but wasn’t sure how I’d feel about him doing a Joker story combined with the extended Batman Family (which I’ve never been interested in). But this is a good story, a creepy one that continues to burnish Snyder’s credentials on this series. DC: The New Frontier, Volume […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Sports, Suspense Tagged With: Atlantic City, Batgirl, Batgirl of Burnside, Batman, Batman Death in the Family, Batman Zero Year, Batman Zero Year Dark City, Batman Zero Year Secret City, Bill Smith, Blood on Snow, Bronx, Caitlin Mullen, Call Me a Cab, Cameron Stewart, Chances, Concourse, Darwyn Cooke, David Gordon, DC Comics, DC The New Frontier, Donald Westlake, Jackie Collins, Jennifer Lynch, Jo Nesbo, Joe Brody, Joker, Lucky Santangelo, Lydia Chin, mafia, Murder Inc., New York City, Norway, Please See Us, psychic, R.D. Rosen, S.J. Peddie, S.J. Rozan, Sarah Weinman, scandal, scott snyder, Sean Gordon Murphy, Sid Luckman, Sonny, Sonny Franzeze, The Bouncer, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, Tough Luck, travel, twin peaks, William F. Buckley, Zero Year

Jake's CBR14 Review No:74 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Sports, Suspense · Tags: Atlantic City, Batgirl, Batgirl of Burnside, Batman, Batman Death in the Family, Batman Zero Year, Batman Zero Year Dark City, Batman Zero Year Secret City, Bill Smith, Blood on Snow, Bronx, Caitlin Mullen, Call Me a Cab, Cameron Stewart, Chances, Concourse, Darwyn Cooke, David Gordon, DC Comics, DC The New Frontier, Donald Westlake, Jackie Collins, Jennifer Lynch, Jo Nesbo, Joe Brody, Joker, Lucky Santangelo, Lydia Chin, mafia, Murder Inc., New York City, Norway, Please See Us, psychic, R.D. Rosen, S.J. Peddie, S.J. Rozan, Sarah Weinman, scandal, scott snyder, Sean Gordon Murphy, Sid Luckman, Sonny, Sonny Franzeze, The Bouncer, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, Tough Luck, travel, twin peaks, William F. Buckley, Zero Year ·
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