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August 2022 Leftovers

Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy

Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself by K.C. Constantine

The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris

Inside the Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees by Bob Klapisch and Pete Solotaroff

Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child

Finley Ball: How Two Outsiders Turned the Oakland As into a Dynasty and Changed Baseball Forever by Nancy Finley

Sea Change by Robert B. Parker

The Hunting Wives by May Cobb

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

Ms. Tree, Volume 1 by Max Alan Collins

September 3, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Some extra books I read in August. What a miserably hot month… Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood**** Less a conventional biopic on The Mick and more a look at his life vis-a-vis his legend and the backdrop of postwar America. Not as thorough as I would’ve liked but still riveting given how Jane Leavy presents her subject.   Greenwich Park*** Again glad I slept on my review. I really liked how this started but after a while, it morphed into […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #biography, 1950s, albert camus, alcoholism, Author Wiggen, Bang the Drum Slowly, Baseball, Bob Klapisch and Pete Solotaroff, CIA, Doctor Zhivago, espionage, existentialism, Finley Ball, Gone Tomorrow, Greenwich Park, Inside the Empire, Jack Reacher, Jane Leavy, Jesse Stone, K.C. Constantine, Katherine Faulkner, Lara Prescott, Last Boy, lee child, lesbian romance, LGBTQIA, London, Mario Balzic, Mark Harris, Massachusetts, Max Alan Collins, May Cobb, Mickey Mantle, mystery, Nancy Finley, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Paul Tremblay, Pennsylvania, Robert B. Parker, Sea Change, Texas, The Hunting Wives, The Man Who Liked to Look At Himself, The Pallbearers Club, The Secrets We Kept, the stranger, thriller, USSR

Jake's CBR14 Review No:165 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #biography, 1950s, albert camus, alcoholism, Author Wiggen, Bang the Drum Slowly, Baseball, Bob Klapisch and Pete Solotaroff, CIA, Doctor Zhivago, espionage, existentialism, Finley Ball, Gone Tomorrow, Greenwich Park, Inside the Empire, Jack Reacher, Jane Leavy, Jesse Stone, K.C. Constantine, Katherine Faulkner, Lara Prescott, Last Boy, lee child, lesbian romance, LGBTQIA, London, Mario Balzic, Mark Harris, Massachusetts, Max Alan Collins, May Cobb, Mickey Mantle, mystery, Nancy Finley, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Paul Tremblay, Pennsylvania, Robert B. Parker, Sea Change, Texas, The Hunting Wives, The Man Who Liked to Look At Himself, The Pallbearers Club, The Secrets We Kept, the stranger, thriller, USSR ·
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Reading, Reading, Reading, RAWHIDE!

The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

The Dame by Richard Stark

Tricky by Josh Stallings

Quarry's Deal by Max Alan Collins

The Plea by Steve Cavanagh

February 1, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

I read a lot last week but also had a busy week at work (a good busy). Every time I tried to write a review on one of these books, all of them good, I just didn’t have the time or energy. So here’s a big update dump of the stuff I read in the last week and I’d be glad to tease them out more in the comments if anyone is curious… “The True History of the Kelly Gang” I enjoyed large parts of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alan Grofield, Australia, crime, Delaware, Donald Westlake, Eddie Flynn, historical fiction, hitman, Irish, Josh Stallings, legal, los angeles, Max Alan Collins, movies, mystery, Ned Kelly, neurodiversity, New York City, Peter Carey, Pretty As A Picture, Quarry, Quarry's Deal, Richard Stark, Steve Cavanagh, The Dame, The Plea, the true history of the kelly gang, thriller, Tricky

Jake's CBR13 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alan Grofield, Australia, crime, Delaware, Donald Westlake, Eddie Flynn, historical fiction, hitman, Irish, Josh Stallings, legal, los angeles, Max Alan Collins, movies, mystery, Ned Kelly, neurodiversity, New York City, Peter Carey, Pretty As A Picture, Quarry, Quarry's Deal, Richard Stark, Steve Cavanagh, The Dame, The Plea, the true history of the kelly gang, thriller, Tricky ·
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The Chicago Way

Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago by Max Alan Collins

December 9, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

I’ve been waiting for this book for years. There are so many works out there about Al Capone, most of them more fact than fiction, few of them recounting the gritty details of his battles with Eliot Ness during Prohibition. The Untouchables movie is more fantasy than reality, so was the TV show, depicting a Manicheean struggle between good and evil, law and order, etc. I wanted something that covered the full details of how these two met on the playing field of Chicago and what actually […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Al Capone, Chicago, Eliot Ness, Max Alan Collins, prohibition, Scarface and the Untouchable, The Untouchables, true crime

Jake's CBR12 Review No:184 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Al Capone, Chicago, Eliot Ness, Max Alan Collins, prohibition, Scarface and the Untouchable, The Untouchables, true crime ·
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