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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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“Yes, even after sleeping with a senator, and waking up next to a dead friend, and celebrating Michael Jackson’s last Christmas with him and his kids, I still did not feel—how shall I put this?—mentally sound.”

March 11, 2017 by Caitlin_D 1 Comment

After reading The Princess Diarist, Fisher’s last work before her untimely death, I decided to reread her other two memoirs throughout the year. While Wishful Drinking came first chronologically I started with Shockaholic because, well, I forgot Wishful Drinking came out first. “I mean, clearly no one would vote for volts until everything else had failed. It’s reserved for those languishing in the suicidal ideation lounge, and I had never been truly suicidal. Not that I haven’t, on occasion, thought it might be an improvement over the all-too-painful present if I could […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: carrie fisher, shockaholic

Caitlin_D's CBR9 Review No:27 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: carrie fisher, shockaholic ·
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