Penance by Eliza Clark
Penance is an interesting book. When I started it, I thought it’d be one of the best things I read this year: a clever dissection of true crime fandom. And by the end, I couldn’t wait to be done. Even the clever ending didn’t spruce it up for me. I appreciate what Eliza Clark is trying to do: expand on a crime to look at the broader story through the lens of a journalist who we know from the start is unreliable, which requires we approach […]
Oooh, one last post I need to make before the year ends! Thanks you so much for you chosen book, KatSings! I missed voting for the Hugo awards the year. This went up, so I’m completely missed it. Now I have the opportunity to tackle it in the new year!
I came home last night after a pretty yucky day to a lovely surprise from what I presume is BlackRaven’s local bookstore. She sent me a Julie Andrews novel I’ve been wanting to read forever (Mandy is one of my all-time favorite children’s books), and a book that I put on my TBR because of CBR! If You Can’t Take the Heat by Geraldine DeRuiter. Seems like a great time for that one, TBH. I’m not sure when I’ll be able to get to these, […]
Body's a Bad Monster by Rowan Perez
This book was written by my favourite (alive) poet. She talked about the writing and release of this book quite a bit, and I bought it as soon as I was able to. So I may be biased, but for good reason in my opinion. To start, I don’t know how to categorize or explain this book. I cannot tell you if it is fiction or not. I cannot tell whether it’s poetry, or simply writing. This book is beautiful in a horrible way, and […]
To Start A War: How the Bush Administration Took Us Into Iraq by Robert Draper
The Travelers by Chris Pavone
A Walk Among the Tombstones by Lawrence Block
Dark Fire by CJ Sansom
The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation by Robert Rand
Stasi Child by David Young
The Cover Wife by Dan Fesperman
So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison
Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
Geiger by Gustaf Skördeman
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
Slow Horses by Mick Herron
The Devil Knows You're Dead by Lawrence Block
I’ve read some interesting stuff lately and I wish I had made more time to document it but life gets in the way that life sometimes does. Not all bad, just life. To Start A War**** I had a long thing here about connecting this to the 2024 election but I don’t want to talk current electoral politics on here, at least the specifics of them. A good book if you want to know the intelligence (ha) perspective of how we wound up in a […]
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick by Elizabeth Hardwick
cbr16bingo and also This is a collection of essays written from approximately 1950 through 1990 by proto-feminist Elizabeth Hardwick, primarily for magazines, and more importantly, magazines for the female reader such as Vogue, House & Garden, and Mademoiselle. They are on various random topics such as cheese grits and Parsifal, but the bulk of them are on political topics or what she referred to as “the feminine principle”. Let’s take a look. The old feminist, the brilliant, self-assertive, daring, reforming woman is as extinct as […]
