pickParanormal noir mystery set in prohibition Chicago sees magical detective Helen Brandt take one last job, to find the White City Vampire, before the demon who owns her soul comes to collect.
It doesn‘t take long for her to realize she is far more connected to her quarry than she thought, as is her employer, her brother, and the woman she loves.
Quick read but oh so good.
'You ever see Now, Voyager? 'Ten times,' I said.
"This is where Bette Davis and Paul Henried sat having a love lunch early in the film....
We were in San Diego by three and outside the bullring in Tijuana just at the hour of four. "Think you can stand this?" asked Constance. 'I can only try,' I said.
...we went north and drove out onto the island and sat in the sunset at the Coronado Hotel. We didn't say anything...
But it was not so much the presence of nine hundred or a thousand books, as it was their titles, their subjects, their incredible dark and doomed and awful names.
On the high, always midnight shelves stood Thomas Hardy in all his glooms next to The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which leaned on dread Nietszche and hopeless Schopenhauer cheek by jowl with The Anatomy of Melancholy, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Freud....and on and on.
so-soI have mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, it‘s an origin story setting up the reader‘s understanding of a character for a series, also being a series set around a black man at a time that was rare. On the other hand, it‘s a whole lot of people menacing each other without much of a through line and a ludicrous number of bodies piling up. I can‘t quite give it a pick. Pretty cool that my library has a signed first edition.
Every time anyone drops dead of a heart attack or trips over his shoelaces in Venice, there's someone there the next day to tell me sixteen to the dozen, how to solve the stopped heart or retie the shoelaces. You've got the heart attack shoelace look about you, and I didn't sleep last night.
pickMy husband picked up this collection recently and we ended up listening to the audiobook of the first book together on a drive. It was great and I definitely want to read the rest.
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A situation arises where a “retired” getaway driver needs a bunch of money, fast. Pretty typical Cosby, but we like it. Things go awry, and our guy has a moral conundrum.
I read 10 pretty great books this summer thanks to the #14books14weeks challenge. Thanks @Liz_M ! My favorite was the tagged book, but I really liked them all.
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My favorite film of all time. Loved the book, too, but it's not my #1.
A black bird's promise:
“The stuff that dreams are made of.“
A falcon's lies.
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