This book is mysterious, intervowen, beautiful, almost childish in its narrative, but definitely not in plot. It is a story told in past tense between a skeleton of a rabbit and an orange butterfly traveling across an unknown place. The rabbit tells the story of Sissy; a young girl with two different colored eyes. She travels with a man named fox from city to city, earning a living as story tellers. In one of the towns a man gives Sissy quite an important piece of […]
There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong
I finished this book almost a week ago but have been so busy that sitting down to write the review has been pushed off each day’s to do list. But, I am finally carving out some time to talk to you about a tiny blonde detective and her continuing adventures in Neptune, California. I only joined the Veronica Mars bandwagon two years ago. I was just outside its viewing demographics when it originally aired. But, because I am not always dumb, I listened to my […]
A Satanic Conspiracy of Skinny
This novel would be downright silly, if it weren’t so darned sweet. The premise of The Program is that Satan has launched a miraculous weight-loss program designed to ensnare the souls of millions of sad women who have been brainwashed into believing that curves mean fat, and fat means unsexy and unloveable. And so Lovett takes on the obsession with weight that dominates the world’s media, entertainment industry, fashion industry, and bedrooms around the globe, and presents us with a different reality, one in which […]
A gripping and lean thriller with a political head and a human heart, starring a reluctant detective with a soft spot for people on the fringe.
Gorky Park was the first Inspector Renko novel, evoking the perils and corruption in Russia during the Cold War, and in subsequent novels we have been brought up to date through the country’s various administrations. Like Stalin’s Ghost and Three Stations before it,Tatiana lets us take another glimpse inside Putin’s Russia through the intrepid Renko’s eyes. Captivated by the titular late journalist’s audio recordings, Renko starts an unsanctioned investigation into her death, seeking to draw parallels between it and the murder of a gangster. He is sure she was murdered rather […]
If only he just had one special friend.
“Please, bring a special friend for Larry,” says Larry’s mother when she prays, despairing for her son’s lonely existence and wishing better for him. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is a good, if somewhat predictable, mystery story that’s elevated by the quality of the prose and the character profiles of its two leads. From Goodreads: “In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas “32” Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son […]
Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane
So here’s a slightly different take on the PI lifestyle — Kenzie and Gennaro are quite a bit different than Izzy and the Spellmans. If you haven’t read Gone, Baby, Gone, or seen the fabulous cinematic adaptation, I’m about to spoil the ending, so back off. Gone, Baby, Gone was Lehane’s fourth installment in the Kenzie/Gennaro series (quick aside: everything I’ve ever read by Lehane has been golden. I may reread my collection just for a chance to review them for CBR). In it, the PIs are […]
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