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The Devil She Knows by Bill Loehfelm

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For the last 48 hours, I’ve been convinced that something was wrong with me, that the other shoe would drop and I would start thinking about this book differently. I picked it up because it’s the first in a series that was lauded by an author I like (although apparently he read others in the series and has yet to get to this one). The reviews on it were less than stellar but the premise hooked me: overworked bartender falls into political conspiracy Hitchock-style, has […]

Binge

The Blackbird by Richard Stark

Dead Connection by Alafair Burke

The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black

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Anytime I finish a tome (in this case, Don DeLillo’s Underworld), I tend to binge read in order to get back in the swing of things. Here are three books I picked up over the weekend… The Blackbird *** Someone asked on Twitter recently that if you could take three traits from a writer for yourself, what would they be? I should have mentioned Donald Westlake’s amazing versatility. Just consider the Grofield series: first a heist tale, then a locked room mystery, now a spy thriller, […]

Time to Ketchup

Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke

Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green

The Revelators by Ace Atkins

The Last Flight by Julie Clark

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Because I read two behemoth 660+ page books back-to-back, I went on a little reading binge this week to “ketchup.” I liked most of these, two more so than the two others. Black Cherry Blues *** I want to go through the David Robicheaux series for two reasons: 1. I love Louisiana and 2. I want to see how Burke develops this story. After enjoying Heaven’s Prisoners, I found this a step back for multiple reasons… 1. Burke pads an already thin story with a lot […]

It Just Wasn’t Enough

Too Much is Not Enough by Andrew Rannells

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Andrew Rannells’ memoir walks you through his young life starting out in the Omaha theater scene, up through his move to New York for college, his subsequent drop out and struggle with finding himself and his place in show business and all of the lessons he learned along the way. It stops just short of his rise as a Broadway star in his most known role of Elder Price in Book of Mormon. You go through a few heartbreaks, and then you realize that maybe […]

What to do when your life’s philosophy fails you?

The Index of Self-Destructive Acts by Christopher R. Beha

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This was a terrific book! It follows 7 people who are all kind of loosely connected through less than a year in New York. Each of the characters is so interesting, and they all make decisions in a very particular way. It seems like they make decisions based on their own internal logic which they think is kind of flawless, and then they’re all coming to terms with the fact that their belief systems are flawed and their heroes aren’t who they though they were. […]



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