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mini-review of ELEVATION by Stephen King

(I hadn’t planned on spieling on this book, but I felt compelled to pump out a little something after enjoying it so much.) Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Elevation is a 146-page novel about a male protagonist who finds himself in an inexplicably weird, impending situation and is forced to find his footing (eventually literally) in it – which …

THE MISMADE GIRL by Sasha Grey

Rating: ❤❤❤   I stick out like a surreal thumb… – Catherine, The Mismade Girl Foxy Shades of Grey Say the name “Sasha Grey” and chances are many men will either blush or pretend not to recognize it – or enthusiastically (usually tactlessly) express their approval for her skin-flick work. Though the instant association is warranted, …

CLOSER THAN YOU KNOW by Brad Parks

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ When I received Brad Parks’ new crime novel, Closer Than You Know, for review, I felt the same as I felt when Anne Perry’s An Echo of Murder showed up at my door several months ago. As I wrote in my review for that book, “nowadays it takes almost everything in me to read fiction….Perhaps …

AN ECHO OF MURDER by Anne Perry

Rating: ❤❤❤ Nowadays it takes almost everything in me to read fiction, and it takes even more for me to read mystery fiction. This isn’t to say that I dislike or disrespect mysteries. On the contrary, the genre is a special kind of good literature. Perhaps I’m too tangled in my own fictions and the unsolvable …