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Footballin’

About Three Bricks Shy of a Load by Roy Blount, Jr

November 14, 2023 by Jake 1 Comment

Something tangential to the book before I address the book itself… I’ve read several tongue-in-cheek books written by white men in the 1970s, of which this qualifies as one. America was dealing with the fallout from the 60s; Black people had made leaps and bounds in their rights but counterrevolutionary political forces stymied full growth. As such, the early-to-mid-70s presented a sort of post-transition time when white people were trying to understand an integrated world. And thus, many of the white male writers I read […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Sports Tagged With: 1970s, football, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Steelers, Roy Blount, Jr, sports books

Jake's CBR15 Review No:156 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Sports · Tags: 1970s, football, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Steelers, Roy Blount, Jr, sports books ·
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May-July Leftovers

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

City of Dreams by Don Winslow

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright

Under Color of Law by Aaron Philip Clark

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

The Last Quarry by Max Allan Collins

Tripwire by Jack Reacher

Baby Moll by John Farris

Only the Dead Know Brooklyn by Thomas Boyle

The Laundromat: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess by Evan Drellich

X by Davey Davis

Our Last Season: A Writer, A Fan, A Friendship by Harvey Araton

The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín

Hard Rain by Samantha Jayne Allen

The Boys From Biloxi by John Grisham

Ex Machina Book Four by Brian K. Vaughan

Jacket Weather by Mike DeCapite

Straight Cut by Madison Smartt Bell

The Crust on Its Uppers by Derek Raymond

That Kind of Danger by Donna Masini

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

Spenser Confidential by Ace Atkins

Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead

Weyward by Emilia Hart

The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon, I Mean Noel by Ellen Raskin

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

July 30, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

I usually do these at the end of the month but then I went through a big reading slump March-May. And then I roared back but realized I was behind. So apologies for this being so long. There Will Be Fire **** A good, readable text on a moment in history I knew little about. Even after reading Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing, I still had a lot of problem keeping track of all the socio-political dynamics so it’s good that Rory Carroll makes it accessible […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #biography, #IRA, #Science Fiction, 1970s, Aaron Philip Clark, abortion, Ace Atkins, an absolutely remarkable thing, Annie McIntyre, Baby Moll, Baseball, basketball, bdsm, Biblical times, Boston, Brian K. Vaughan, Brooklyn, cheating, City of Dreams, climate change, Colm Toibin, Colson Whitehead, crime, Crook Manifesto, Davey Davis, Derek Raymond, don winslow, Donna Masini, Ellen Raskin, Emilia Hart, europe, Evan Drellich, Ex Machina Book Four, Florida, friendship, gambling, grady hendrix, Graphic Novel, hank green, hard case crime, Hard Rain, harlem, Harvey Araton, historical fiction, hitman, Hollywood, Houston Astros, Jack Reacher, Jacket Weather, Jake Bernstein, jennifer wright, Jesus Christ, John Farris, John Grisham, Jonathan Lethem, LAPD, legal fiction, LGBTQIA, los angeles, Madame Restell, Madison Smartt Bell, magic realism, Margaret Thatcher, Mary, Max Allan Collins, Mike DeCapite, mississippi, Money Laundering, Motherless Brooklyn, movies, music, mystery, New York City, New York Knicks, Northern Ireland, Only the Dead Know Brooklyn, Our Last Season, Panama Papers, Peter Swanson, poetry, police, Quarry, Ray Carney, Rory Carroll, Samantha Jayne Allen, Spenser, Spenser Confidential, sports, Straight Cut, Texas, That Kind of Danger, The Boys From Biloxi, the carls, The Crust on Its Uppers, The Kind Worth Killing, The Last Quarry, The Laundromat, the Mysterious Disappearance of Leon I mean Noel, the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires, the testament of mary, The Troubles, There Will Be Fire, Thomas Boyle, thriller, Trevor Finnegan, Tripwire, true crime, Under Color of Law, United Kingdom, Weyward, Winning Fixes Everything, witches, X

Jake's CBR15 Review No:103 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #biography, #IRA, #Science Fiction, 1970s, Aaron Philip Clark, abortion, Ace Atkins, an absolutely remarkable thing, Annie McIntyre, Baby Moll, Baseball, basketball, bdsm, Biblical times, Boston, Brian K. Vaughan, Brooklyn, cheating, City of Dreams, climate change, Colm Toibin, Colson Whitehead, crime, Crook Manifesto, Davey Davis, Derek Raymond, don winslow, Donna Masini, Ellen Raskin, Emilia Hart, europe, Evan Drellich, Ex Machina Book Four, Florida, friendship, gambling, grady hendrix, Graphic Novel, hank green, hard case crime, Hard Rain, harlem, Harvey Araton, historical fiction, hitman, Hollywood, Houston Astros, Jack Reacher, Jacket Weather, Jake Bernstein, jennifer wright, Jesus Christ, John Farris, John Grisham, Jonathan Lethem, LAPD, legal fiction, LGBTQIA, los angeles, Madame Restell, Madison Smartt Bell, magic realism, Margaret Thatcher, Mary, Max Allan Collins, Mike DeCapite, mississippi, Money Laundering, Motherless Brooklyn, movies, music, mystery, New York City, New York Knicks, Northern Ireland, Only the Dead Know Brooklyn, Our Last Season, Panama Papers, Peter Swanson, poetry, police, Quarry, Ray Carney, Rory Carroll, Samantha Jayne Allen, Spenser, Spenser Confidential, sports, Straight Cut, Texas, That Kind of Danger, The Boys From Biloxi, the carls, The Crust on Its Uppers, The Kind Worth Killing, The Last Quarry, The Laundromat, the Mysterious Disappearance of Leon I mean Noel, the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires, the testament of mary, The Troubles, There Will Be Fire, Thomas Boyle, thriller, Trevor Finnegan, Tripwire, true crime, Under Color of Law, United Kingdom, Weyward, Winning Fixes Everything, witches, X ·
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A low-stakes 1970s queer love story.

Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots (The Cabots, #3) by Cat Sebastian

July 25, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots, like all the Cabot books, is a low-stakes romance where there isn’t much conflict, just two people falling in love, or as in the case of this book, recognizing that they are already in love and coming to terms with it. No third-act breakups, no outside forces coming between them; even homophobia isn’t really an issue here. Our MCs are Daniel, son of the MC from the first in the series, and Alex, Ukrainian immigrant, doctor, neurodivergent, and Daniel’s best […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: 1970s, Cat Sebastian, Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots, historical fiction, historical romance, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA romance, m-m, narfna, neurodivergent protagonist, the cabots

narfna's CBR15 Review No:72 · Genres: Romance · Tags: 1970s, Cat Sebastian, Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots, historical fiction, historical romance, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA romance, m-m, narfna, neurodivergent protagonist, the cabots ·
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Americana Sports

Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association by Terry Pluto

July 24, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR15Bingo: North America. The story of the American Basketball Association takes place exclusively in the United States and the organization has the word “American” in it. The other day, I was at a basketball team store when I saw a New York Nets hat for sale. I’ve tried really hard not to purchase clothes and hats these days but I just couldn’t help myself. It was beautiful, with the old school Nets logo. It represented everything good about the old American […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Sports Tagged With: 1970s, ABA, American Basketball Association, basketball, cbr15bingo, Julius Erving, NBA, north america, sports, Terry Pluto

Jake's CBR15 Review No:72 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Sports · Tags: 1970s, ABA, American Basketball Association, basketball, cbr15bingo, Julius Erving, NBA, north america, sports, Terry Pluto ·
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Take Me To Church

The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy by James Risen, Thomas Risen

July 12, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR15Bingo: politics. Frank Church was a Senator from Idaho and the famous committee that bears his name was a Senate committee investigating the dirty deeds of America’s surveillance state. I’ll say this much for The Last Honest Man: the writers know why you’re here. I didn’t pick this one up to learn about the classes Frank Church took in college or what his favorite restaurant was when he was dating his wife. I picked this up to learn about Frank Church and […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: 1970s, assassinations, cbr15bingo, Church Committee, CIA, Conspiracy theories, FBI, Frank Church, James Risen, Thomas Risen, politics, The Last Honest Man

Jake's CBR15 Review No:68 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: 1970s, assassinations, cbr15bingo, Church Committee, CIA, Conspiracy theories, FBI, Frank Church, James Risen, Thomas Risen, politics, The Last Honest Man ·
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The Kolchak Papers: The Original Novels by Jeff Rice

The Night Stalker … In Print

The Kolchak Papers: The Original Novels by Jeff Rice

October 13, 2022 by xoxoxoe Leave a Comment

I like to find the original literary sources for movies that I like (see past reviews of Strangers on a Train, Rosemary’s Baby, Breakfast at Tiffany’s), so I was happy to find out that an old television show from my childhood, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, actually started life out as a book. The Kolchak Papers: The Original Novels includes the first two novels that introduced intrepid reporter Carl Kolchak, who has a flair for detecting the supernatural. They first debuted in 1970 and are now […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: 1970s, Carl Kolchak, Comics, Darren McGavin, horror, Jeff Rice, Kolchak:The Night stalker, mystery, Suspense, television, The Night Stalker

xoxoxoe's CBR14 Review No:4 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: 1970s, Carl Kolchak, Comics, Darren McGavin, horror, Jeff Rice, Kolchak:The Night stalker, mystery, Suspense, television, The Night Stalker ·
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