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> Tag: Paul Tremblay

Foul foe, or foul play?

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

January 17, 2023 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

A Head Full of Ghosts is a possession/exorcism tale… or is it? The eldest teenage daughter of the Barrett family, Marjorie, is not quite herself. She’s telling horrible stories, hearing voices, and vomiting green goo. She’s terrifying her little sister Merry with tales both true and imagined. Although she’s taking her prescription medication and dutifully attending her various medical appointments, her condition does not appear to be improving. Her parents or – more specifically – her father, reach out to a local catholic priest, Father […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: Paul Tremblay

Caesar's Wife's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: Paul Tremblay ·
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Rest Ye, Merry Gentleman

The Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay

October 17, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR14 Bingo: cozy. The main character is a narcoleptic and his body frequently drags him off into a deep, cozy sleep.  It’s clear that I need to read more of Paul Tremblay’s work. While I didn’t love The Pallbearer’s Club, I enjoyed Tremblay’s writing style. He came across as accessible and fun, someone I could easily digest while providing enough pathos for his protagonists to feel like they are more than literary ciphers. I grabbed this on a lark in a bookstore, […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Boston, cbr14bingo, Mark Genevich, mystery, narcolepsy, Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

Jake's CBR14 Review No:184 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Boston, cbr14bingo, Mark Genevich, mystery, narcolepsy, Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep ·
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Growing Things and Other Stories

Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay

September 26, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

At this point everyone who reads my reviews should know I do an overall rating for the collection, with individual ratings for the stories. So here we go! “Growing Things”-(3 stars)-This follows Merry from “A Head Full of Ghosts”. I didn’t find this scary honestly, and just kind of went well okay. “Swim Wants to Know if It’s As Bad As Swim Thinks”-(3 stars)-I honestly had to read more about what this even was since the title confused me. For those who don’t know, SWIM […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Paul Tremblay

Classic's CBR14 Review No:202 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Paul Tremblay ·
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Hardly Getting Over It

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

September 25, 2022 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

  Paul Tremblay is at his best when he’s making you question what’s actually happening in his novels. Was the teen girl in A Head Full of Ghosts really possessed?  Was it really the apocalypse in The Cabin at the End of the World?  That’s what he’s doing here in The Pallbearers Club; a story about a friendship that starts in the late 1980s and lasts until the present day. He first peppers you with the main characters recollections only to refute them a few pages later.  You will […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Suspense Tagged With: #paultremblay, cbr14, Paul Tremblay

Bea Pants's CBR14 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Suspense · Tags: #paultremblay, cbr14, Paul Tremblay ·
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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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The Past Is Not Dead (neither am I)

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

April 21, 2022 by Jenna 2 Comments

Not my first read of the year, but it is my first CBR14 review! I’ve got a couple dozen other reads that I’ll get around to reviewing soon. I received this ARC in a Goodreads Giveaway (my first! what a hell of a book for a first ARC!). It has not impacted the content of my review. Art Barbara (not his real name, but it sounds anti-cool, don’t you think?) meets Mercy Brown (also not her real name) in 1988 at the second meeting of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: Paul Tremblay

Jenna's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: Paul Tremblay ·
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