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Raise a Glass

Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol by Mallory O'Meara

May 8, 2022 by Halbs 1 Comment

“All drinks are girly drinks.” This sentence closes Mallory O’Meara’s book and also serves a sort of double-pronged thesis. All drinks are girly drinks in the sense that women can drink what they want. Historically, all drinks are “girly” drinks in the sense that women around the globe were integral to the development of brewing, distilling, mixing, and serving alcoholic drinks. (O’Meara is great at double meanings in subtitles. Her Lady from the Black Lagoon is subtitled “Hollywood monsters” in the horror sense, and also […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Alcohol, feminism, Mallory O'Meara, prohibition

Halbs's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Alcohol, feminism, Mallory O'Meara, prohibition ·
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Don’t mess with Louise Lloyd

Dead Dead Girls (Harlem Renaissance Mystery #1) by Nekesa Afia

December 29, 2021 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia has a beautifully illustrated cover that caught my eye. I (wrongly) assumed this was a cozy mystery set in the Harlem Renaissance. But it’s a historical mystery about a serial killer murdering Black girls who work or visit speakeasies. The book follows Harlem resident Louise Lloyd who is unintentionally famous for surviving a kidnapping as a teenager. Known as Harlem’s Hero, she rescued her fellow captives. In the present time of the book, she wants to move past all […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: 1920s, Black authors, f/f romance, harlem, harlem renaissance, historical mystery, LGBT Romance, Nekesa Afia, New York City, prohibition, speakeasy, thriller

teresaelectro's CBR13 Review No:25 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: 1920s, Black authors, f/f romance, harlem, harlem renaissance, historical mystery, LGBT Romance, Nekesa Afia, New York City, prohibition, speakeasy, thriller ·
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“I think many a trouble begins with love, and it’s important to remember that when life feels like the shit scraped off Death’s boot sole.”

The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye

April 6, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I feel like only Lyndsay Faye could not only make me actually sit through reading a story about the mafia, but enjoy it. (Thankfully, the mafia portions are really only about 1/3 of the novel.) I just, I really hate stories about organized crime. I don’t know why. Really, this story isn’t about the mafia. It’s about Alice “Nobody” James, who is on the run from the mafia, yes, but is taken in by the residents of the Paragon Hotel in Portland, Oregon when a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: historical fiction, LGBTQIA, Lyndsay Faye, mystery, narfna, prohibition, The Paragon Hotel

narfna's CBR13 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: historical fiction, LGBTQIA, Lyndsay Faye, mystery, narfna, prohibition, The Paragon Hotel ·
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A masterclass in the novella; body horror and racism collide.

Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark

February 7, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 4 Comments

We know that the people who join the Ku Klux Klan are monsters. Average people who act in monstrous, horrible ways. But what if some of the Klan members were actual monsters? Giant, hulking, dog-like beasts that want to consume and destroy Black people? Such is the premise of Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark. Maryse, a Black woman, hunts these monsters in Prohibition America with the help of her magical sword infused with the anger, pain, and despair of Black men and women of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: body horror, gullah, lgbt, monsters, novella, P. Djèlí Clark, prohibition, Racism, Ring Shout, stone mountain, the birth of a nation

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror · Tags: body horror, gullah, lgbt, monsters, novella, P. Djèlí Clark, prohibition, Racism, Ring Shout, stone mountain, the birth of a nation ·
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Snorky

The Confessions of Al Capone by Loren Estleman

December 20, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

This one is a tough book to pull off. There’s already tons of bs associated with the legend of Al Capone that it’s tough to discern the truth. Fortunately, Loren Estleman, a writer who I’ve been meaning to read for a very long time, gets it well. Estleman’s research is incredible. I read Max Alan Collins’ Scarface and the Untouchable before this so a lot of it was fresh in my head. I figured he (Estleman) might fudge the facts in order to tell a more compelling […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Al Capone, Chicago, crime, Florida, historical fiction, Loren Estleman, prohibition, Roman Catholicism, The Confessions of Al Capone

Jake's CBR12 Review No:189 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: Al Capone, Chicago, crime, Florida, historical fiction, Loren Estleman, prohibition, Roman Catholicism, The Confessions of Al Capone ·
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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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