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I liked this weird little gremlin book.

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

February 9, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

To be clear, the book isn’t about gremlins, I’m just calling it a gremlin book because it’s weird and small and has claws but is also kind of harmless and laughable in the right light. Also also, gremlin is a fun word to use. This book is impossible to *really* talk about without spoilers, so I’m going to have a pretty big spoiler section and a smaller non-spoiler section in this review. I will try to keep the spoiler section relatively spoiler-free in the sense […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: annotations, fake memoir, horror, literary fiction, literary horror, metafiction, narfna, Paul Tremblay, The Pallbearers Club, weird fiction

narfna's CBR15 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: annotations, fake memoir, horror, literary fiction, literary horror, metafiction, narfna, Paul Tremblay, The Pallbearers Club, weird fiction ·
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August 2022 Leftovers

Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy

Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself by K.C. Constantine

The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris

Inside the Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees by Bob Klapisch and Pete Solotaroff

Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child

Finley Ball: How Two Outsiders Turned the Oakland As into a Dynasty and Changed Baseball Forever by Nancy Finley

Sea Change by Robert B. Parker

The Hunting Wives by May Cobb

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

Ms. Tree, Volume 1 by Max Alan Collins

September 3, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Some extra books I read in August. What a miserably hot month… Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood**** Less a conventional biopic on The Mick and more a look at his life vis-a-vis his legend and the backdrop of postwar America. Not as thorough as I would’ve liked but still riveting given how Jane Leavy presents her subject.   Greenwich Park*** Again glad I slept on my review. I really liked how this started but after a while, it morphed into […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #biography, 1950s, albert camus, alcoholism, Author Wiggen, Bang the Drum Slowly, Baseball, Bob Klapisch and Pete Solotaroff, CIA, Doctor Zhivago, espionage, existentialism, Finley Ball, Gone Tomorrow, Greenwich Park, Inside the Empire, Jack Reacher, Jane Leavy, Jesse Stone, K.C. Constantine, Katherine Faulkner, Lara Prescott, Last Boy, lee child, lesbian romance, LGBTQIA, London, Mario Balzic, Mark Harris, Massachusetts, Max Alan Collins, May Cobb, Mickey Mantle, mystery, Nancy Finley, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Paul Tremblay, Pennsylvania, Robert B. Parker, Sea Change, Texas, The Hunting Wives, The Man Who Liked to Look At Himself, The Pallbearers Club, The Secrets We Kept, the stranger, thriller, USSR

Jake's CBR14 Review No:165 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #biography, 1950s, albert camus, alcoholism, Author Wiggen, Bang the Drum Slowly, Baseball, Bob Klapisch and Pete Solotaroff, CIA, Doctor Zhivago, espionage, existentialism, Finley Ball, Gone Tomorrow, Greenwich Park, Inside the Empire, Jack Reacher, Jane Leavy, Jesse Stone, K.C. Constantine, Katherine Faulkner, Lara Prescott, Last Boy, lee child, lesbian romance, LGBTQIA, London, Mario Balzic, Mark Harris, Massachusetts, Max Alan Collins, May Cobb, Mickey Mantle, mystery, Nancy Finley, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Paul Tremblay, Pennsylvania, Robert B. Parker, Sea Change, Texas, The Hunting Wives, The Man Who Liked to Look At Himself, The Pallbearers Club, The Secrets We Kept, the stranger, thriller, USSR ·
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