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February 2023 Leftovers

Dead Wind by Tessa Wegert

One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

Messi vs. Ronaldo: One Rivalry, Two Goats, and the Era That Remade the World's Game by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg

The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz

The Title: The Story of the First Division by Scott Murray

The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

The Fiancée by Kate White

The Guns of Heaven by Pete Hamill

February 28, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Hey on the last day of the month, it finally snowed in New York! Huzzah! Dead Wind**** I can’t talk about why I like this book without even the mildest of spoilers if you’ve been following the series. So I’ll talk about what I appreciate. I’ve been in an on-and-off reading slump the last two months. It’s been hard to finish stuff. Tessa Wegert’s Shana Merchant series really feels like the exception to the rule. I like her writing, her pacing, her protagonist. All good. One […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #IRA, agatha christie, Anthony Horowitz, Cristiano Ronaldo, Dead Wind, England, English football, evil under the sun, FC Barcelona, hard case crime, Hawthorne and Horowitz, Hercule Poirot, Inspector Montalbano, Ireland, Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg, karen m mcmanus, kate white, Lionel Messi, maureen johnson, Messi vs. Ronaldo, mystery, New York (State), New York City, one of us is lying, Pete Hamill, Real Madrid, Scott Murray, Shana Merchant, Sicily, Soccer, sports, Tessa Wegert, The Fiancée, The Guns of Heaven, The Sentence is Death, the shape of water, The Title, the vanishing stair, thriller, truly devious, Vermont, Young Adult

Jake's CBR15 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #IRA, agatha christie, Anthony Horowitz, Cristiano Ronaldo, Dead Wind, England, English football, evil under the sun, FC Barcelona, hard case crime, Hawthorne and Horowitz, Hercule Poirot, Inspector Montalbano, Ireland, Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg, karen m mcmanus, kate white, Lionel Messi, maureen johnson, Messi vs. Ronaldo, mystery, New York (State), New York City, one of us is lying, Pete Hamill, Real Madrid, Scott Murray, Shana Merchant, Sicily, Soccer, sports, Tessa Wegert, The Fiancée, The Guns of Heaven, The Sentence is Death, the shape of water, The Title, the vanishing stair, thriller, truly devious, Vermont, Young Adult ·
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January 2023 Leftovers

Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly

Queen of Thieves by Beezy Marsh

Anxious People by Frederick Backman

The Dead Season by Tessa Wegert

A Diet of Treacle by Lawrence Block

The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports by Joshua Robinson & Jonathan Clegg

February 3, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Here are brief reviews for the books I read in 2023 that I either didn’t have time to review or that didn’t merit 250 words… Two Kinds of Truth*** First new read of 2023! I continue to plow through the Bosch series. I enjoyed most of what I read recently but this was just blah. Boring, predictable dueling plots, though one is resolved with an interesting twist. Read better, read worse in this series. Looking forward to getting to some of the Renee Ballard books. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: A Diet of Treacle, anxious people, Beezy Marsh, drugs, England, English Premier League, Forty Thieves, Frederick Backman, hard case crime, harry bosch, historical fiction, Joshua Robinson & Jonathan Clegg, lawrence block, London, los angeles, Michael Connelly, mystery, New York City, Queen of Thieves, Shana Merchant, Soccer, sports, Sweden, Tessa Wegert, The Club, The Dead Season, Two Kinds of Truth

Jake's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: A Diet of Treacle, anxious people, Beezy Marsh, drugs, England, English Premier League, Forty Thieves, Frederick Backman, hard case crime, harry bosch, historical fiction, Joshua Robinson & Jonathan Clegg, lawrence block, London, los angeles, Michael Connelly, mystery, New York City, Queen of Thieves, Shana Merchant, Soccer, sports, Sweden, Tessa Wegert, The Club, The Dead Season, Two Kinds of Truth ·
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“Falling in love is really quite simple. You want to know the secret? It’s the same thing we are doing about life every single day. Forget there’s an ending.”

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

December 31, 2022 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

Reading, or listening to, the Taylor Jenkins Reid book “Daisy Jones and the Six” was one of my favorite reads of 2020; I still herald it whenever someone is looking for an audiobook, or a book, to completely fall into. Reid has the ability to write fiction so realistically that you forget that what you are reading isn’t the most engaging memoir of all time, but fiction. That was true about Daisy Jones and it’s true about this book. In Carrie Soto, Reid has rewritten […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Carrie Soto is back, goodreads awards, sports, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis

cheerbrarian's CBR14 Review No:53 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Carrie Soto is back, goodreads awards, sports, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis ·
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STEP.

Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang

December 29, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was very wholesome. I have been a fan of Gene Luen Yang’s work for a while now, and I try to read all of his graphic novels (I have given up on his superhero comics work; there is too much of it). So when the Read Harder Challenge said I had to read a nonfiction YA comic, I was excited to finally be able to fit this one in. Dragon Hoops is a memoir of Yang’s time shadowing the Bishop O’Dowd High School basketball team […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction Tagged With: basketball, Comics, dragon hoops, Gene Luen Yang, graphic novels, narfna, non fiction, read harder challenge 2022, sports

narfna's CBR14 Review No:240 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: basketball, Comics, dragon hoops, Gene Luen Yang, graphic novels, narfna, non fiction, read harder challenge 2022, sports ·
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The sportswriter in granny glasses

Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber by Sue Macy

November 30, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This is BlackRaven reporting on Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber by Sue Macy and illustrated by C. F. Payne. And I would like to say READ THIS BOOK! Okay, so you might want to know why. And the why is Because I said so! And it is a good book about a woman in sports that we do not know of and is (in my not so humble opinion) more important than the sports players themselves. Because if Mary Garber […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: 20th Century, C.F. Payne, Mary Garber, Media Studies, North Carolina, sports, sports writing, Sue Macy

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:579 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: 20th Century, C.F. Payne, Mary Garber, Media Studies, North Carolina, sports, sports writing, Sue Macy ·
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My first five-star TJR.

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

November 3, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

Thanks to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for the ARC. It has not affected the content of my review. Oh, hey, look at that. Five stars. I think no one is more surprised about that rating than me after slowly making my way through this over the past two and a half months (this was written in August). But really, I was only slow because I didn’t expect to get this ARC, so I was reading it in between other books when I had time. But […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: ARCs, Carrie Soto is back, historical fiction, sports, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis

narfna's CBR14 Review No:181 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ARCs, Carrie Soto is back, historical fiction, sports, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis ·
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