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One Corpse Too Many, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, God Is Not One, The Hobbit
Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many This is one of those books that I’m sure is a very different experience reading for the first time unspoiled, because it’s the first appearance of Hugh! Hugh Beringar,...
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Kraken, A Wild Light, The Medical Detectives, St Peter’s Fair
China Miéville, Kraken Oh China Miéville, I forgive you for Iron Council. This book is marvellous, the best kind of thriller — the kind where you start out with no idea what’s just happened, three...
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30 Days of Books: Day Twenty-Five
Day 25 – Any five books from your “to be read” stack I’ll take the letter of this one instead of the spirit and actually pull books from my “to be read” shelf instead of sampling from my to-read list...
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The American Way of Death Revisited, Ballad, Helter Skelter, Cries Unheard
Jessica Mitford, The American Way of Death Revisited I picked this up while wandering randomly through the lovely Rosemary Garfoot Public Library in Cross Plains one day. (I live in Madison, but I’m...
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The Postman Always Rings Twice, Wishcraft, The Rubber Band, Plain Kate
James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice Working my way through the classics of noir fiction. This is a tight little novel, fairly horrible in a lot of ways, but then again, it’s noir. (When I say...
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Horror Noir, Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, Unnatural Death
Paul Meehan, Horror Noir A poorly written but (as far as I can tell) thorough overview of the confluence of two of my favorite movie genres, horror and film noir. Because what I need is more movies to...
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The Profiler, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, The Maltese Falcon
Pat Brown, The Profiler As you know, Bob, I have both a ridiculous fascination with true crime stories and a distaste for sensationalizing, victim-blaming crap. Profiling books are the best of both...
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When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger, Harry W. Riecken, and Stanley Schachter
I’m only a little behind the times, I suppose, but I wasn’t this annoyed before today. So, as you all know, the world did not end on Saturday, and Harold Camping and his followers were not raptured,...
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Hot Off the Press: Review of The Mad Bomber of New York by Michael M. Greenburg
Where I got it and why: After I spotted this in the Goodreads new release newsletter, I put a hold on the library’s on order copy immediately. I love true crime and history – this is two in one! Also,...
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Summer Anthro Reads
When I was an undergraduate, I meant to be an English major. I loved to read, surely I would be an English major, right? But when I got to college I was placed with the anthropology department for my...
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