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April 2024 Leftovers

X = : Poems by Stephen Berg

Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley

A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh

The Hurricane Blonde by Halley Sutton

Vineland by Thomas Pynchon

L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais

Watch It Burn by Kristen Bird

Sleep With Strangers by Dolores Hitchens

The Fixer: Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars, and Marilyn by Josh Young

One of Us Is Wrong by Sam Holt

The Fade Out by Ed Brubaker

The Second Murderer by Denise Mina

Blackmailer by George Axelrod

The Darkest Glare: A Story of Murder, Blackmail, and Real Estate Greed in 1979 Los Angeles by Chip Jacobs

Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith

May 6, 2024 by Jake Leave a Comment

Happy April, y’all! X = : Poems**** This is why library book bingos are necessary. I only checked this one out because I needed to read a book of poems and I wanted to check the nettlesome “X” off the A-Z reading list. A convoluted reason to begin with and this wasn’t even the book I thought I was getting! I thought I’d get a different X by a different author. I’m glad I got this one. Some of these really spoke to me, including […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a game of Lies, Blackmailer, california, charcoal joe, Chip Jacobs, Clare Mackintosh, crime, cults, denise mina, Dolores Hitchens, Easy Rawlins, ed brubaker, Elvis Cole, europe, Ffion Morgan, France, Freddie Otash, George Axelrod, Graphic Novel, Halley Sutton, hard case crime, historical fiction, Joe Pike, Josh Young, Kristen Bird, L.A. Requiem, LGBTQIA, long beach, los angeles, Marilyn Monroe, movies, mystery, New York City, Noir, One of Us Is Wrong, Patricia Highsmith, Philip Marlowe, poems, postmodern, real estate, reality television, red scare, Ripley's Game, Robert Crais, Sam Holt, Sleep with Strangers, Stephen Berg, Texas, The Darkest Glare, the fade out, The Fixer, The Hurricane Blonde, The Second Murderer, Thomas Pynchon, Tom Ripley, true crime, Vineland, wales, walter mosley, Watch it Burn, X

Jake's CBR16 Review No:66 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a game of Lies, Blackmailer, california, charcoal joe, Chip Jacobs, Clare Mackintosh, crime, cults, denise mina, Dolores Hitchens, Easy Rawlins, ed brubaker, Elvis Cole, europe, Ffion Morgan, France, Freddie Otash, George Axelrod, Graphic Novel, Halley Sutton, hard case crime, historical fiction, Joe Pike, Josh Young, Kristen Bird, L.A. Requiem, LGBTQIA, long beach, los angeles, Marilyn Monroe, movies, mystery, New York City, Noir, One of Us Is Wrong, Patricia Highsmith, Philip Marlowe, poems, postmodern, real estate, reality television, red scare, Ripley's Game, Robert Crais, Sam Holt, Sleep with Strangers, Stephen Berg, Texas, The Darkest Glare, the fade out, The Fixer, The Hurricane Blonde, The Second Murderer, Thomas Pynchon, Tom Ripley, true crime, Vineland, wales, walter mosley, Watch it Burn, X ·
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Disney tricked me and I’m not even mad!

If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy

November 1, 2023 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

I have loudly declared for a long time that we should have a hiatus on all Cinderella remakes. And I have rallied for a shorter time on the sad habit of Disney retreading old IP over and over again. It’s not that I am so mad about them redoing the same fairy tales all the time, but in a world where there are truly hundreds of versions of their Disney Princess tales, why not tell a fresh version of the story? I decided to read […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: audiobook, cinderella, Disney, fairy tale, fashion, fat positive, julie murphy, reality television, reality TV, Romance

cosbrarian's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance · Tags: audiobook, cinderella, Disney, fairy tale, fashion, fat positive, julie murphy, reality television, reality TV, Romance ·
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Cover of If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy. A woman with blonde hair and a white dress stands facing a man with dark hair and a black suit.

…Then Wear It

If the Shoe Fits: A Meant to be Novel by Julie Murphy

January 20, 2022 by NoNeinNyet 1 Comment

I picked up If the Shoe Fits, the first in a series of fairy tale modernizations, awhile ago but finally got around to reading it this week. It’s also the first Julie Murphy I’ve read which feels silly because I loved the adaptation of Dumplin’ on Netflix. As you might guess from the title, this first book in the series is a take on Cinderella and it’s just delightful. It’s set on a Bachelor-like reality show which keeps the tone light but also deals with […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Bachelor, cinderella, fairy tale, julie murphy, Meant to Be, reality television, romance, romcom

NoNeinNyet's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Bachelor, cinderella, fairy tale, julie murphy, Meant to Be, reality television, romance, romcom ·
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