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Audio listen after I read the book a few years ago. Related to my work but fiction. First 100 pages are boring & a struggle to get through. Easier to listen but even boring on audio. It picks up & worth sticking with. Historical fiction with an ax murder mystery that ties in construction of the NOLA industrial canal & the birth of jass (or jazz). Didn‘t care for the reader‘s character voices & a few mispronunciations of local words. Still good!

1. Yes! A few times. At 4 a very short bang cut. Shaved my head in HS with my BFF. Once in college my roommate thought I went crazy. And once as a professional adult and a coworker said I should just go to the salon.
2. My mom is home safe.

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This book started off slow and though it picked up there were still parts throughout that bored me. Sometimes it seemed that the characters were kind of living in a haze which was how I felt while reading it causing some parts to be a little confusing and unclear.
The book is told by following three characters around and I did enjoy how the author kept them separate but gradually fully wound them together. 3⭐️

A story which was very atmospheric and tonal (in a good way). Louisiana after the war with mobsters and jazz and murder. Also, snakes.

A great story of my complex city spiced with conflagrant history. This is probably my favorite paragraph of the book.

King Zeno was just plain old fun. New Orleans, 1919, ax murderer, jazz, Spanish flu, etc. The author has previously written a study of film noir, and you can tell--final scene in particular could have come right out of a classic noir flick. Not a masterpiece of literature, just a fun story.

Great and complex story set in New Orleans.

Starting something new, maybe will bring some inspiration.

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Yeah!!! Caught my library on new acquisition day for OverDrive. Swept up these goodies. We‘ll see how many I can get through in 21 days!!

#overdrive #libraryhaul

Not only does this book have THE best cover art of the year, the story is pretty fantastic as well. God bless New Orleans!

More here: http://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2018/03/king-zeno-what-time-to-be-alive-i...