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Vacation Reading

All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka

The Big Blowdown by George Pelecanos

Pickup At Union Station by Gary Reilly

February 22, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

I got some great reading done while I was on vacation this past week. No knockouts but a nice range of good-to-good-enough books. Didn’t have time or resources to catalogue each individually so I’ll do small reviews of every book here. All I Did Was Shoot My Man I continue to be pleasantly mystified by Walter Mosley’s Leonid McGill series. These books are so odd, so transgressive considering what else is out there. He clearly has a gift for this kind of writing. The plot […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: All I Did Was Shoot My Man, ASL, Asphalt Warrior, Gary Reilly, George Pelecanos, Kristen Lepionka, Leonid McGill, Neal Shusterman, New York City, Pickup At Union Station, Roxane Weary, scythe, The Last Place You Look, walter mosley, Young Adult Dystopia

Jake's CBR12 Review No:29 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: All I Did Was Shoot My Man, ASL, Asphalt Warrior, Gary Reilly, George Pelecanos, Kristen Lepionka, Leonid McGill, Neal Shusterman, New York City, Pickup At Union Station, Roxane Weary, scythe, The Last Place You Look, walter mosley, Young Adult Dystopia ·
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