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Thursday, June 28, 2018

Playground by 50 Cent: #tbt review

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(Finished April 25, 2015) Butterball is a 13-year-old playground bully who has just landed another kid in the hospital. And he...

A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising by Raymond A. Villareal

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read by Jim Meskimen, Christine Lakin, Robert Petkoff, full cast I wanted a trashy vampire novel, and that’s exactly what I got: ...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson: #tbt review

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(Finished September 24, 2015) If you love good, hard science fiction, this book is for you. If you love The Expanse or Battlestar...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

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Read by Nick Podehl I am so mad at this book, I don’t know where to start. It began so well, and kept getting even better— ...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki: #tbt review

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(Finished April 22, 2015) I don't often sit down and take in a whole book, even a short one, in one sitting anymore, but this was ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

White Houses by Amy Bloom

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Read by Tonya Cornelisse So many thoughts and feelings about this book. It’s a historical novel, the story of Eleanor Roosevelt ...
Saturday, June 9, 2018

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup

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Read by Louis Gosset, Jr. In this harrowing 1841 memoir, Solomon Northrup, a free man of color from New York State, is kidnapped ...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite: #tbt review

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When I first read this book in 2002, it was still too soon after the 90s for me to realize just what a product of the 90s it really was...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Robin by Dave Itzkoff

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Read by Fred Berman Wow. Just… truly. Wow. When Robin Williams died, it hit me hard. Yes, he’d been in quite a few embarrass...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt

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Read by Christopher Lane The time travel tale that the love child of Robert A. Heinlein and Dean Koontz might have written--if t...