I know I’m still not totally caught up with Grady Hendrix’s entire bibliography, but I jumped at the chance to get his latest, How to Sell a Haunted House, at my local library the second I could. Coming as no surprise, it did not disappoint.
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Book Review: Girls of Brackenhill by Katie Moretti
I believe I bought this book on a discounted whim probably over a year ago. In an effort to work through books I own, Katie Moretti’s Girls of Brackenhill intrigued me the most on my shelf.
Read moreBook Review: Pay or Play by Howard Michael Gould
In the most recent Charlie Waldo offering, Pay or Play, Waldo is still straddling the line between his old and new life and he just can’t decide how things should end up.
Read moreBook Review: Below the Line by Howard Michael Gould
I suppose it comes as no surprise that I’ve already read the next novel in Howard Michael Gould’s Charlie Waldo series. Below the Line offered up a similar mix of intricate crime in sunny LA as its predecessor.
Read moreBook Review: None of this Rocks by Joe Trohman
You are reading that author’s name correctly. None of this Rocks is a memoir penned by Fall Out Boy guitarist, Joe Trohman. I for one, would have never guessed someone from one of my favorite bands would ever write something so personal. It was quite eye-opening.
Read moreBook Review: Last Looks by Howard Michael Gould
After watching the film adaptation of Howard Michael Gould’s novel, Last Looks, a few weeks ago, I just couldn’t resist seeing how close they came to source material. Turns out, pretty darn good!
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Read moreBook Review: The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman
Don’t ask me why I let at least four years pass between reading the second novel of Lev Grossman’s trilogy and the final installment, The Magician’s Land. Especially don’t ask me why I bought the book two years ago and just let it sit there on my shelf. I have no logical reasons.
Read moreBook Review: Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
I…really hated this book. For as short as it was, it just felt like it went on forever. To be fair, I suppose I should have done just a little more research on it besides reading that a mother thinks she’s turning into a dog. But with a title like Nightbitch, I figured Rachel Yoder was going to give me a fun ride.
Read moreBook Review: The Price of Malice by Archer Mayor
I was maybe about twenty pages into Archer Mayor’s novel, The Price of Malice, when I thought that this had to be a part of a series. Come to find out after the fact, it is one of 32 novels involving the detective character, Joe Gunther. Go figure.
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