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Serving up a flight of reviews for your reading pleasure. Prepare to knock back tastes of gritty novellas, a refined spy thriller, a complex memoir, and family fiction with both sweet and sour notes. Cheers! Owning Up by George Pelecanos (2024) What’s better than a new George Pelecanos novel? Four new Pelecanos novellas! Quality and … Continue reading Short Shots
A masterclass in sinister fiction. If this book was a fabric, it would be plush velvet. If this book was a drink, it would be a rich Bordeaux. If this book was a fruit, it would be an overripe plum. If this book was a dream, it would be a nightmare. Lucy Foley and her … Continue reading The Paris Apartment
Predators are on the loose in Joe Pickett's world Let's begin with the bottom line: C.J. Box is tried and true and I'm a fan. I devoured Three-Inch Teeth in two days, and it was a tasty treat. This is book number 24 in Box's Joe Pickett series. I've listened to most but read the physical … Continue reading Three-Inch Teeth
How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi Neal Bascomb's The Nazi Hunters reads like a fictional spy thriller but tells the very real story of the hunt for and capture of top Nazi Adolf Eichmann. The book is intended for YA readers and the author treats them and the … Continue reading The Nazi Hunters
In which a fiction prompts a return to poetry. Marigold and Rose are tiny babies and the narrators of this tiny book. It's only 52 pages long! Author Louise Glück called it 'A Fiction' and that it is: a wonderful, insightful, imaginative tale. Marigold and Rose tells the story - in their own words/thoughts - … Continue reading Marigold and Rose and Louise
You think your family has issues? Jean Hanff Korelitz's writing is like a sleek bullet train, propelled forward, subtlety gaining speed and momentum until reaching its destination. This is the third book of hers I've read and in my review of The Plot I wrote "Korelitz is an excellent writer; her books just seem to … Continue reading The Latecomer
I did a little survey of all my reviews and realized that around 20% of the books I’ve read since 2020 are by Black authors. The genres include fiction, sci-fi, personal development, young adult, children’s, art, memoir, romance, and a book about books! It’s an interesting list and in the spirit of Black History Month … Continue reading Review Roundup: Black authors
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