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End in Sight

December 19, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Burden of Proof – 3/5 Stars So this is a second of the “Kindle County” series books that Turow has been publishing over the course of the last 30 years. I reviewed the first one a few months back. This a “legal thriller” and starts with Sandy Stern (of Argentine Jewish descent, which comes up, repeatedly) finding his wife dead in the garage of a possible suicide. There is a note but few clues as to what might have happened. Over the course of the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Carol Anderson, carrie fisher, invisible cities, Italo Calvino, nellie bly, Scott Turow, Shirley Jackson, shockaholic, ten days in a mad house, the burden of proof, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, White Rage

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:504 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Carol Anderson, carrie fisher, invisible cities, Italo Calvino, nellie bly, Scott Turow, Shirley Jackson, shockaholic, ten days in a mad house, the burden of proof, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, White Rage ·
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Odds and Ends

October 22, 2017 by vel veeter 1 Comment

Presumed Innocent: 4/5 Stars So I didn’t realize this was the same as the Harrison Ford movie until about halfway through the book. I picked it up for two distinct reasons: 1) It was listed as one of the best legal thrillers (old school, we’ll call it) and that reason checks out and 2) the audiobook was read by Edward Hermann, which is obviously great. I have heard him read one book before and it was so good. So the novel itself is told from […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: Chinua Achebe, Elmore Leonard, Horace Walpole, Joan Didion, Man of the people, Par Lagerkvist, Presumed Innocent, Pronto, Scott Turow, South and West, The Castle of Otranto, the dwarf, The Tombs of Atuan, ursula k le guin

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:430 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: Chinua Achebe, Elmore Leonard, Horace Walpole, Joan Didion, Man of the people, Par Lagerkvist, Presumed Innocent, Pronto, Scott Turow, South and West, The Castle of Otranto, the dwarf, The Tombs of Atuan, ursula k le guin ·
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