You by Caroline Kepnes
Kind of like my review for 2666, this is going to be one where I have to sort of list my uncategorized scattered thoughts. I sat on this for 24 hours and I still don’t know the best way to talk about this book so here it goes… -It took me four tries to read this. Why couldn’t I quit? My wife hate-watches the series. I walked in on her during a viewing and caught maybe fifteen minutes of it. It really helped me to understand […]
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
You know in a lot of romantic comedies, the hero already has a girlfriend, but she’s stern, and demanding and seems to have absolutely no feelings that don’t revolve around her career and probably living in the big city? The woman who eventually gets left, so the hero can get with the charming, free-spirited, understanding and much more laid-back heroine of the rom-com? Nora Stephens is that woman. She loves her life in New York City, she loves her Peloton bike, she loves her designer […]
The Cage by Bonnie Kistler
Gangsterland by Tod Goldberg
Gone 'Til November by Wallace Stroby
Cover Story by Susan Rigetti
Survivor's Guilt by Robyn Gigl
The Old Man by Thomas Perry
Iron Annie by Luke Cassidy
The Drop by Michael Connelly
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
Barbed Wire Heart by Tess Sharpe
Amateur City by Katherine V. Forrest
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
The Fury of Blacky Jaguar by Angel Luis Colón
He Kills Coppers by Jake Arnott
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
I was dealing with work turmoil and on vacation for most of June so I didn’t get the chance to write as many in depth reviews as I’d have liked to. Which is a shame because some of these deserved a longer look; I just didn’t have the time or energy… The Cage **** I went back-and-forth on my review. I’ve been giving out a lot of 4-star reviews lately and considered docking the book for that reason since it’s very borderline. But the more I […]
Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival by Spencer Schneider
Spencer Schneider tells the story of his decades in School, “an esoteric school for inner development,” which was really just a cult. I love reading about cults – they’re fascinating in a horrifying, often voyeuristic way. Schneider was writing about his own story, about a cult I’d never heard of – two points in this book’s favor. I was excited to learn about how people could go about their daily business in New York City whilst having their lives held in a chokehold by a […]
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
New York City has been born as a great city of the world and she has chosen her avatar. This happens from time to time as enough people and ideas coalesce in one spot. It happened to Rio de Janerio, to Hong Kong, to London, and many more. And now it’s happening to New York. Except this time, one single person is not embodying the entire city like has always been the case. Instead there is an additional avatar for each of the five boroughs […]
This Is A Bust by Ed Lin
One of the joys of reading is discovering a new author that you like and want to explore more into their catalog. I found that with Ed Lin. Wow what a book. This is one I’ve had on my shelf for a while that I decided to finally tackle. And I loved it. Yes in some sense it is a mystery but the mystery is only part of the story. The real story is Robert Chow, Chinese-American, Chinatown product, Vietnam washout, tokenized NYPD patrolman. Through […]
