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A Man and His Thoughts

Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto

August 5, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

Nic Pizzolatto is most famous for being the creator and auteur of the sometimes popular, sometimes controversial hit tv series True Detective. Before he made that, he wrote this little crime ditty that shares a lot of themes with the show. I’ve been meaning to check it out for awhile. I have both love and antagonism towards True Detective. I love moody crime tales but Pizzolatto feels the need to suffuse his with a lot of existential angst, which sometimes works and often times does not. He likes his […]

Squicky

Beast In View by Margaret Millar

August 4, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR11 Bingo: Award winner. This book won the 1957 Edgar Award for best Mystery work. This book edged out Patricia Highsmith’s legendary The Talented Mr. Ripley for the 1957 Edgar Award. Both of them are more psychological thrillers than mysteries. Both were written by world class female crime writers, maybe 1 and 1a of the genre. Yet while Patricia Highsmith’s work has endured (she’s the only woman whose works have been republished by the Everyman’s Library), Millar’s were largely forgotten for decades. This […]

Normandy Gold by Megan Abbott & Alison Gaylin

August 1, 2019 by Jake 1 Comment

Read as part of CBR11 Bingo: Illustrated I love 70s moves. I love conspiracies. I love Megan Abbott’s work. Mix it all together and you’re probably going to make something I’ll love. That’s definitely the case here. I collect Hard Case Crime novels as a hobby. I decided not to do this when they expanded to graphic novels but I admire the talent they got to do them. Abbott on this one and Crista Faust, another favorite, on one that I will have to check […]

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Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery Tagged With: Alison Gaylin, cbr11bingo, Graphic Novel, hard case crime, megan abbott, mystery, Normandy Gold, Washington

Jake's CBR11 Review No:71 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery · Tags: Alison Gaylin, cbr11bingo, Graphic Novel, hard case crime, megan abbott, mystery, Normandy Gold, Washington ·

The Raft of Medusa

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

July 31, 2019 by Jake 1 Comment

Read as part of CBR 11: Science David Wallace-Wells wants us to avoid the trap of fatalism when it comes to climate change. Fatalism is a form of denialism. I get that. I appreciate it. But man, it’s tough to come away from reading this book feeling anything but pessimistic about the future at best and nihilistic at worse. This book is divided into two sections: the potential scientific effects in the near future due to global warming, and how we process that ethically, politically, […]

Deep in the Heart of Texas

Savage Season by Joe R. Lansdale

July 31, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR11 bingo: First in the Hap and Leonard series. Joe R. Lansdale is one of those writers I’ve always been meaning to get to but never had the time for. His bibliography, while prolific, is not as readily available at the used bookstores I enjoy perusing, nor are many of them at my local library (I had to buy this copy from The Mysterious Bookshop). And when I did try one of his popular ones, The Bottoms, I found it to be […]

Detective of the People

The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Scascia

July 30, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

There are plenty of crime novels at home and abroad that function as social critiques for their nation/state/metropolitan setting. Crime fiction is a good stalking horse for social commentary, because much of what passes for social commentary in crime fiction focuses on injustice real or perceived: racism, gender and economic inequality, urban decay, social despair, etc. Some books are better than others at doing this. All could take a lesson from Leonardo Sciascia’s The Day of the Owl. Less a murder mystery and more an examination […]

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