Let’s start where it all started, shall we? I can do that because this is my review…When I read Cuckoo’s Calling I was truly hoping that it wasn’t a one off. I loved the mystery of the book but more than the mystery I really wanted to see where the working relationship between the detective and Robin was going to continue to go. She is so sorely underused in that book, that it was quite a relief that the second book in the series, The […]
Riding A Train While Drunk Sounds Awful
I don’t think I’ve ever met a character who annoyed me more than our protagonist Rachel. That said, I see this as a win for the author, Paula Hawkins because even Rachel seemed tired of dealing with herself. Fired for months now, our alcoholic friend spends her days riding the train to and from “work” because she doesn’t want her roommate to know that she has been fired. This is pretty much a metaphor for her life–constantly moving but making no progress. The train pauses […]
Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Bolt by Dick Francis (1989) Underneath the coffee table in the lobby at the Eagle Point Diving Resort in the Philippines is a library of sorts. It consists of two German novels, two identical Bibles, and a sun-bleached copy of Dick Francis’s Bolt (in English). Having gone through my own personal library over Christmas (two books), I was desperate for something to read, and this was not something I’d pick up at a bookstore. First of all, it wasn’t science fiction. Secondly, it was about […]
“Annoy, tiny blonde one. Annoy like the wind.”
You Cannonballers know how much I love me some Veronica Mars. I love the TV series, the film, and the first book, which I reviewed for CBR6. I have eagerly awaited the arrival of the second book, and it finally showed up at my library! I tore into it and devoured it in a large gulp this afternoon. Mr. Kiss and Tell picks up a few months after The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line, where Weevil is awaiting the results of his criminal trial, and Veronica is […]
Wallender must find the targets of a vengeful woman before she does
This was my first foray into the world of Swedish detective Kurt Wallender, and while the main character shares the same alienated, depressed profile of so many of his counterparts in the Scandinavian police procedural literary genre, there is something else to Mankell’s protagonist that makes for a different and interesting reading experience. Wallender’s angst as he goes about his duties does not stem from some personality or mental disorder, but rather from the social and cultural decline he feels is swirling around him, day […]
I Can’t Pull You Closer Than This
I LOVED this book. Often when I really love something, I’ll say to a friend that they need to read it or watch it, so I have someone to yell about it with. I don’t want to yell about this book. I want to press it into people’s hands like a secret, hushing their protests. Don’t ask questions. Shhhh. Just read it. Read the rest at Pop Culture Penalty Box.
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