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He Is Your Father

Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right by Walter Mosley

February 14, 2025 by Jake Leave a Comment

Walter Mosley has two idiosyncratic mystery series set in New York City: Leonid McGill and King Oliver. I’ve written before about my fondness for the McGill series. They’re not significantly different from the King Oliver books but I like how Leonid is a former crime fixer who is trying to do right in a neo-surrealist Manhattan. Oliver’s story is interesting but I don’t find the character as compelling. That changed a bit with this one. Amidst several plots, King has to try and find his […]

Filed Under: Featured, Mystery Tagged With: Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right, King Oliver, mystery, New York City, walter mosley

Jake's CBR17 Review No:5 · Genres: Featured, Mystery · Tags: Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right, King Oliver, mystery, New York City, walter mosley ·
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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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March 2023 Leftovers

The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell

The Terra-Cotta Dog by Andrea Cammalleri

Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson

Tina, Mafia Soldier by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli

The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz

An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder by Susan Wels

Every Man a King by Walter Mosley

The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates

Robert B. Parker's Lullaby by Ace Atkins

The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker

Play the Fool by Lina Chern

April 2, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Man, that month went fast The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion**** I might have a lot more to say about this one had I finished it weeks ago but I’ll be honest, I’m starting to hit my limit on books about tech geniuses that the public discovers aren’t all they’re cracked up to be only after they’re handed billions of dollars. Theranos, Uber and now WeWork all run by self-glorifying con artists. This book is as well done as the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, Ace Atkins, Adam Neumann, an assassin in utopia, Andrea Cammalleri, Boston, Charles Joseph Guiteau, corporate nonsense, eight perfect murders, Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell, Every Man a King, feminism, hard case crime, Inspector Montalbano, isolation, James Garfield, Joyce Carol Oates, Julia Bartz, King Oliver, Lina Chern, lullaby, Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, mystery, new york, Peter Swanson, Play the Fool, presidential assassinations, Robert B. Parker, Robert B. Parker's Lullaby, Sicily, Spenser, Susan Wels, tarot reading, The Cult of We, The Godwulf Manuscript, the terra-cotta dog, The Triumph of the Spider Monkey, the writing retreat, tina mafia soldier, true crime, walter mosley, WeWork

Jake's CBR15 Review No:43 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, Ace Atkins, Adam Neumann, an assassin in utopia, Andrea Cammalleri, Boston, Charles Joseph Guiteau, corporate nonsense, eight perfect murders, Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell, Every Man a King, feminism, hard case crime, Inspector Montalbano, isolation, James Garfield, Joyce Carol Oates, Julia Bartz, King Oliver, Lina Chern, lullaby, Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, mystery, new york, Peter Swanson, Play the Fool, presidential assassinations, Robert B. Parker, Robert B. Parker's Lullaby, Sicily, Spenser, Susan Wels, tarot reading, The Cult of We, The Godwulf Manuscript, the terra-cotta dog, The Triumph of the Spider Monkey, the writing retreat, tina mafia soldier, true crime, walter mosley, WeWork ·
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Easy Rawlins

Black Betty by Walter Mosley

A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley

October 30, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Black Betty Easy Rawlins is hired to find a woman named Elizabeth ostensibly because her rich employer is looking for her. The woman has been working in the house for this rich woman and the story goes that she is looking for Elizabeth in order to offer to pay her more if she comes back to work. This story of course is fishy. Also fishy is the fact that Rawlins is being approached by not even a third party so much as a fourth or […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: walter mosley

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:611 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: walter mosley ·
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White Butterfly

White Butterfly by Walter Mosley

June 23, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The third novel in the Easy Rawlins novels, this book begins with Rawlins being confronted in his house by several local police and politicians. Rawlins is married now, and in the last book he adopted (under the table) a young Mexican boy who now lives with them. He’s also got an infant daughter by way of his wife. Anyway, Rawlins tells us that this is not typical to be confronted by police in his living room, where he is being coerced into helping them with […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: walter mosley

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:337 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: walter mosley ·
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February Leftovers 2022

Trouble Is What I Do by Walter Mosley

Sleeping With Strangers by Eric Jerome Dickey

The Trees by Percival Everett

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Democracy by Carol Anderson

March 3, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

These are my February leftovers, i.e. books that I read but didn’t give a full review either cuz I didn’t have time or didn’t have much to say. There are fewer than normal this month because Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. DuBois took up most of my time. Trouble Is What I Do **** Another good entry in the Leonid McGill series. It’s short and that streamlines the story more than its predecessors. I still read these as if Leonid is dead and NYC is his purgatory where […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Carol Anderson, Eric Jerome Dickey, espionage, Gideon, horror, Leonid McGill, mystery, New York City, One Person No Vote, Percival Everett, Racism, Satire, Sleeping with Strangers, the trees, Trouble is what i do, Voter Suppression, walter mosley

Jake's CBR14 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Carol Anderson, Eric Jerome Dickey, espionage, Gideon, horror, Leonid McGill, mystery, New York City, One Person No Vote, Percival Everett, Racism, Satire, Sleeping with Strangers, the trees, Trouble is what i do, Voter Suppression, walter mosley ·
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