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Truly one of my white whales. #CBRBingo

The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kriezler, #1) by Caleb Carr

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Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog, review #6 out of 11 The Alienist has been on my TBR practically since I joined Goodreads ten years ago. I no longer remember whose review or what list prompted me to add this book. (But thank you, whoever you were! I really liked it!) I had this book on my TBR so long that it almost didn’t make it through several TBR purges. I distinctly remember being on the verge of deleting it at least twice, and then re-reading the blurb or something else made me change my mind, and I kept it. […]

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8/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:95 |

I really dislike Peter now, FYI. #CBRBingo

A Rule Against Murder (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #4) by Louise Penny

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Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog, review #5 out of 11 Glad to say I’m fully back on board with this series. I’ve decided to overlook its faults in favor of the things it does really well. I don’t think these same people in this same very small town are going to stop improbably encountering dead bodies anytime soon. And what it does really well is character. Penny’s characters are very human. The consensus for this one seems to be that it’s good, not great. Just solid. But I liked it better than the last two in the series, certainly […]

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8/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:94 |

Marlowe: The Dark Knight Returns

Only To Sleep by Lawrence Osborne

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Read for CBR10 Bingo: Published in 2018 I was recently at a book signing for author Megan Abbott. A week before the signing, she published an article on trying to understand her love for Raymond Chandler’s work in the age of #MeToo. Chandler’s most famous detective, Private Investigator Philip Marlowe, is written as a notorious misogynist who is often quite brutal to women. I was fortunate to talk to Abbott a little about her piece and we both agreed that while Chandler has his problems, he’s also the godfather of most modern day American detective novels. Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer […]

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8/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

Revisiting Cormoran and Robin (CBR10Bingo)

The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike #1) by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling pseudonym), Robert Glenister (narrator)

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I don’t scorn rereading (see please, my Harry Potter reread), it just isn’t something I do all that much since I joined up with the Cannonball crowd back in 2012. It is sometimes very difficult to find new words to express a reaction to a book, and now that writing a review is part of my reading process I cannot skip a review. If I read a book… I’m reviewing it (with the exception of one book back in CBRV). So, why did I dive back into the world of Cormoran Strike? Several reasons, actually. I was longing for the […]

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8/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:27 |

“Excellent!” I cried. “Elementary,” said he. #CBRBingo

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4) by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog, review #4 out of 11 Of the four Holmes books I’ve read so far, this one has been my favorite. Even my least favorite stories are solid, and there are several that are excellent. For context, these stories were all published between 1892-1893, at the height of both Conan Doyle’s and his famous hero’s popularity. Conan Doyle was growing extremely tired of his creation, and he wanted to write other, newer and more challenging things (he did, almost none of which is read now by anyone other than Conan Doyle scholars and really dedicated […]

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8/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:90 |

Texas noir. #CBRBingo

Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1) by Attica Locke

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Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog commences. No promises on the quality of my next ten or so reviews. I just want to get them done. (This will probably unfortunately result in subpar reviews for books that deserve much better.) Let’s start with a book I finished over a month ago, Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke. First things first, this book was incredibly well done. It’s a crime book set in Texas, featuring a black Texas Ranger as its protagonist. I knew that going in. I also knew that the author had previously said that her books were “too black […]

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8/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:88 |

An April Fool’s Joke come true

Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews

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4.5 stars While this is technically the first book in a new series, which can be read on its own, this book fits into the larger framework of the Kate Daniels universe (where this book is book 9.5 out of 10). So there’s quite a bit of back story you’re missing out on if you’ve not read the other books first. While the first book is rough, the series as a whole is my favourite paranormal/urban fantasy series, probably ever, so if you like the genre and haven’t checked them out yet, do yourself a favour and get caught up before you […]

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7/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:54 |

Aren’t we all?

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

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I knew nothing about We Were Liars before going in (except that it had a good title and an appealing cover), and that’s probably the best way to approach this book – I’m going to have a hard time reviewing it without giving anything away. The Sinclair family is beautiful, wealthy, and numerous. Normally spread across the country, they spend each summer on their own private island just off Massachusetts, in houses purposefully built for them by the wealthy patriarch. Our narrator is the teenaged grand-daughter of said patriarch, and we meet her as she tries to piece together the […]

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7/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:53 |


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