How to Bang a Billionaire by Alexis Hall is like 50 Shades, if 50 Shades were Gay (do I have your attention now?) Actually set in the UK (no real American uses the word ‘clamber’) Main characters are both into BDSM (though this book doesn’t have much of it) Laugh out loud funny (intentional) Beautifully written (really) Profound (proof to come) Arden St. Ives is about to sit for his exams at Oxford (for Americans: he’s about to graduate from university, not just end the […]
Gut-Wrenching and Beautifully Written True Crime. So many feelings.
I don’t even know where to start with this one. I’m not usually a true crime person and will admit I was first intrigued by this because my favorite comedian Patton Oswalt was Mr. Michelle McNamara for the 10 years prior to her death. I knew vaguely that she was a badass crime writer who helped break this case before her sudden passing shortly before the killer was caught. My knowledge stopped there. The context gave this already-devastating, next-level book an extra gut punch for me […]
Femme Fatale
I really enjoy these kinds of “historical short story” non-fiction books. This book is in the same vein as Jennifer Wright’s books and I was all over those so this is right up my alley. Tori Telfer goes back through the ages, and around various parts of the world to pretty much debunk the myth presented by FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood in 1998; namely that there are “no women serial killers.” She has any number of women here in this book that handily fit the […]
A Sci-Fi Crime Procedural Series
So, I’ve read a handful of John Scalzi and I’ve really liked everything that I’ve read. I bought Lock In on Audible a little while ago. Then Head On was about to come out so I listened to Lock In and immediately pre-ordered Head On. I think I finished Head On, the audiobook mind you, the day after it came out. I ate lunch in my car for two days to listen to it. I played it while washing dishes. I couldn’t put it down. […]
A righteous defense of a difficult book
When an author of Courtney Milan’s caliber takes as much time as she (admittedly) does between books in her series, you often cope — as I did — by re-reading a bunch of her back catalog in between. Every re-read reminds you how she is working on another level from most other romance authors right now, between the articulation of the themes she explores and the maturity of the relationships she crafts. When her new book finally drops two years later, you hope, and expect, […]
It’s Apocalyptic!
I wanted to read this book for a while. I love Neil Gaiman but I’ve never read Terry Pratchett and this seemed like the best of both worlds. In high school, I steered very clear of Pratchett. He was far too uncool for me. Now that I read fantasy and science fiction so much it seems odd that I ever held such an opinion. Needless to say, this book has been on my list for a while. This is also one of the first audiobooks […]
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