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November 2022 Leftovers

The Golden Cage by Camilla Läckberg

Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier

The Lost Village by Camilla Sten

The Hot Beat by Robert Silverberg

Your Book, Your Brand: The Step-By-Step Guide to Launching Your Book and Boosting Your Sales by Dana Kaye

Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace

The Family Game by Catherine Steadman

The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy

Nineteen Eighty by David Peace

Ex Machina, Book Three by Brian K. Vaughan

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, Vol.2) by Ed Brubaker

The Ghost in You (Reckless, Vol.3) by Ed Brubaker

Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar

December 3, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

A happy and blessed Thanksgiving to all who observe! Here is my list of readings that I got to in November that didn’t merit a longer review… The Golden Cage*** Part 1: Ma’am, wyd? Part 2: Good for her! Part 3: Good for…her? Also, kinda sad. Epilogue: Good for her! This is a good, trashy beach read. I just wish there had been less on Faye’s shady past- which wasn’t filled in well-and more on the machinations to destroy her husband’s business. Also, I’m not […]

Danny Noble is weird. I like them!

Shame Pudding by Danny Noble

November 23, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Shame Pudding is a busy, funny, odd, strange, strong story growing up, even when you are an adult. Danny Noble’s memoir shows the years she and her wacky, crazy, bizarre, weird, off the charts amazing family had. From a young girl who performed on the performing stool, who told her brother Adam there was an invisible wolf in the cupboard, who would lick his hand, who would eat her marshmallows quickly while bemoaning Adam’s savoring of them to a teen who knew the pubs, the […]

Hold On Tight

I Let You Go by Clare MacKintosh

November 22, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Note: I’m not going to spoil this book but I am going to give away something about the plot machinations regarding this book. If you want to go into this book tabula rasa, skip this review (and really, all reviews because I have no doubt they will inevitably mention what I’m about to mention). If you don’t mind knowing something specific with regards to the plot, even though it is not at all a spoiler, read on. Nest… … There’s nothing I hate more […]

Lilly Renee fought Nazi’s with her pen

Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivors to Comic Book Pioneer by Trina Robbins

October 18, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

A while ago, I think I saw this book on a list of World War two books. Or maybe it was books about women. At the time it did not seem interesting to me, so I quickly forgot it. Later I came across from it and for some reason was compelled to do an interlibrary loan request for it. I know I was not sure what it was about (okay, so the title should have given me a clue, but even then, nope. Nothing. I […]

Hell Is Empty

The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

October 14, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR14 Bingo: verse. This book frequently quotes the “Hell is empty, all the devils are here” passage from “The Tempest”, as well as verses from a fictional short story inspired by that passage. This left me with the same feeling I felt when I first read Tana French’s debut novel In the Woods: good but I feel like it’s missing something to prevent it from being great. I really liked the first half of the book: getting to know the three POV characters, […]

Paul is a Blue Hippo and John is hanging upside down

Paul is Dead by Paola Baron

September 1, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Paul is Dead. How many Beatles fans know that story? Paul McCartney died at the height of Beatlemania and was replaced with a copy. And Paola Baron explores that idea in Paul is Dead, a speculation fiction graphic novel that causes questions of fame, reality, and self to have more questions than answers. I do not want to know what Baron or illustrator Ernesto Carbonetti were smoking when they created this realistically abstract, realistic-surrealism book, because John Lennon was not the only one having an […]

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