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Summer Road Trips: Listening to Carl Hiaasen books because he’s the only author my husband and I agree on

Bad Monkey by Carl Hiassen

August 29, 2023 by MegsDarcy Leave a Comment

A brief introduction that you can absolutely skip, the review will follow: This summer as I criss and crossed my home province and the neighbouring one- dodging wildfires, construction, tourists, pack of elk or goats standing in the middle of the highway playing chicken with Alberta truckers, it was the not-so-sultry-but-very-sarcastic tones of a Carl Hiaasen novel that filled my car. I like Carl Hiaasen, don’t get me wrong, but at the beginning of the summer I had read three of his books in my […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: Carl Hiassen

MegsDarcy's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: Carl Hiassen ·
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The madness of Florida and TFG and snakes

Squeeze Me by Carl Hiassen

March 8, 2023 by MegsDarcy Leave a Comment

I don’t know how to describe how much I enjoyed this book. I listened to it as a book on tape for a long drive between the mountains and it hit the spot in a way I didn’t know I needed. It is a very long book that probably could have been smaller, but the author had a story to tell that encompassed the last year and bit of TFG’s reign of horror and after he lost. There were many times in the book when […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: Carl Hiassen

MegsDarcy's CBR15 Review No:3 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: Carl Hiassen ·
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