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The Body Scout

The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel

June 20, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

If I had to write the logline of this book, I would say it’s like Robert Coover writing Blade Runner. Our narrator is a body scout, whose job is to look for potential talent for a cyborg baseball league. It’s cyborg in the sense of of body modification run amok. He can’t play himself because of certain bans, but he’s still in the biz. He’s on a call when he finds out that one of the stars of the league has been found dead, seemingly […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Lincoln Michel

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:320 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Lincoln Michel ·
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The Hollow and Lord Edgware Dies + Audible Originals

The Hollow by Agatha Christie

Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie

See How they Run by Rachel Howzell hall

Stories of the Stalked by Lily Baldwin

Free Billy by Don Winslow

Approval Junkie by Faith Salie

Out of Bounds by Chris Ballard

The Dogs of Venice by Stephen Rowley

Island Nation by Peter Heller

Fragments of a Young Conquistador by Lincoln Michel

Song of the Northwoods by Jessica Huang

April 21, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Hollow – 4/5 Stars This is one of the mid-career Poirot novels, and it’s one of the ones where Poirot begins to revise and critique the ways in which crimes are investigated. We begin with a group of people on an estate swooning and hand-wringing about their wonderful, innocent, and sad friend Gerda, who seems to be married to someone who doesn’t love her. This is one of those Christie novels that takes place on a country estate, like several others, and like others, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: agatha christie, Chris Ballard, don winslow, Faith Salie, Jessica Huang, Lily Baldwin, Lincoln Michel, Peter Heller, rachel howzell hall, Stephen Rowley

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:175 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: agatha christie, Chris Ballard, don winslow, Faith Salie, Jessica Huang, Lily Baldwin, Lincoln Michel, Peter Heller, rachel howzell hall, Stephen Rowley ·
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