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Die Trying (Jack Reacher #2) by Lee Child

December 13, 2019 by Zirza Leave a Comment

I majored in English. Read some of the finest books known to man. I also like good food. Sometimes, though, I want McDonalds and Jack Reacher. You know it’s not High Art, but it doesn’t have to be. You don’t want it to be. You want it to be a McChicken and a milkshake and Jack Reacher beating the shit out of a white supremacist: it’s just really easy to wolf down.  Child doesn’t waste much time dropping us in the middle of some nefarious […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: Jack Reacher, lee child, SovCit, white supremacists

Zirza's CBR11 Review No:23 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: Jack Reacher, lee child, SovCit, white supremacists ·
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Jodi Picoult Does Racism

February 4, 2017 by Julie 2 Comments

Jodi Picoult is one of those authors I think of as “easy reading.”  Her books are written in a way where thing are pretty well laid out for the reader.  She does tackle topics that can be controversial or morally ambiguous but does it in a gentle way where she’s not alienating most readers.  I found out that my mom’s book club was reading this book and purchased a copy for her, and figured I would read it myself. The book is the story of […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction Tagged With: Book Club Reads, courthouse, hospitals, Jodi Picoult, Racism, white guilt, white supremacists

Julie's CBR9 Review No:3 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: Book Club Reads, courthouse, hospitals, Jodi Picoult, Racism, white guilt, white supremacists ·
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