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Rogues, the whole lot of them.

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe

October 4, 2023 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Last year I did a Patrick Radden Keefe double-header: Say Nothing and Empire of Pain. It was… a doozy. Keefe writes incredibly well (he’s got a slew of awards to prove it) and excels at deep dives into larger-than-life personalities. When Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks went on sale on Chirp I scooped it up. Rogues is a collection of Keefe’s previous writings for The New Yorker. Keefe describes in his preface how journalists often develop a lane, and while he […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr15bingo, collection, Patrick Radden Keefe, read harder challenge, rogues, take the skies

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:26 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr15bingo, collection, Patrick Radden Keefe, read harder challenge, rogues, take the skies ·
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When Kindle Unlimited does you wrong

An Arranged Marriage by Jo Beverly

An Unwilling Bride by Jo Beverly

Christmas Angel by Jo Beverly

Forbidden by Jo Beverly

Dangerous Joy by Jo Beverly

April 22, 2021 by NTE 1 Comment

One of my least favorite things is when the first book of a series is on Kindle Unlimited, but then the rest of the book is not. It just feels like false advertising, because I pay for Kindle Unlimited, so it’s not like I was stealing the first book, but now I have to pay more for all the other books, if I liked that first one, and it just feels unfair.  (I am sure there’s some really good reason for this that I do not understand, most […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a series of them, classics of the genre, jo beverly, problematic, rogues, Romance, romance novels, tw: rape

NTE's CBR13 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a series of them, classics of the genre, jo beverly, problematic, rogues, Romance, romance novels, tw: rape ·
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