Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Thriller
December 16, 2009 | Wednesday | 13 Comments
When I saw the news on Twitter that Salon Magazine picked Barry Eisler’s Fault Line as a top book of 2009, I realized I’d been a complete slacker and hadn’t reviewed it, though I read the book in a gulping, cringing marathon of reading. I’ve been pondering books that have The Crack in them - you cannot put them down - and this was definitely one for me. First, a few warnings. It’s not a romance, but it’s tense and packed with elements that are so realistically drawn that they could be possible - which is a key element in…
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June 05, 2009 | Friday | 19 Comments
Yesterday on Twitter, Kat Meyer hosted a #followreader discussion inspired by a question posed by Jane,: Are genre labels helpful or limiting? Who defines the scope of the genre? The write up will be at Kat’s blog, and you can read the hashtag record online if you’re interested in the full conversation. It was definitely worth pondering, as it’s a question of nomenclature and ownership of a classification - even if no two people can absolutely agree what the boundaries of that classification are. I was pondering, however, the options for renaming all genre headings for ease of Twitter, and…
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December 09, 2008 | Tuesday | 9 Comments
Author Persia Walker is giving away the ebook of her new release, which is set against the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Darkness and the Devil Behind Me is, according to the author’s site, a story about a disappearance, an unsolved crime, and things that some folks would prefer to keep secret: The devil claimed Esther Todd. Or so they say. In December 1923, she was a lovely young pianist, a rising star. By January of ‘24, she was on the most wanted list. She’d vanished along the snowy streets of a storm-swept night in Harlem and thieves had hit…
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