Robin Becker, Brains: A Zombie Memoir

The memoir of English professor turned unusually self-aware zombie Jack Barnes. #bookreview

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Jason Pargin, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

A motley collection of misfits get involved in transporting a big black box—potentially of doom—across country.

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Alexander McCall Smith, A Distant View of Everything

The 11th book in McCall Smith’s Isabel Dalhousie series. This time Isabel ponders ethics while looking into a guy who seems to be targeting wealthy women.

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Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

Third book in Horowitz’s reality-blurring Hawthorne and Horowitz series, in which the author appears as a Dr Watson-like tagalong tasked with documenting a psychologically opaque detective’s cases.

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Michael Finkel, The Art Thief

Nonfiction detailing the crime spree and eventual comeuppance of intrepid thief Stéphane Breitweiser, who, with the help of his girlfriend, stole over a billion dollars’ worth of art across seven European countries between 1994 and 2001.

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Myrtis Smith, Short Stories in Esperanto. Volume 3

Jen dulingva aro da 20 mallongaj noveloj verkitaj en la angla de Myrtis Smith kaj tradukitaj en Esperanton de Chuck Smith. #bookreview #esperanto

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Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

A day in the mind of Mr. Lemony Snicket as he takes a walk and thinks about breakfast, poetry, death, tea, libraries, music, bees, chickens, eggs, and bewilderment, for a start. #bookreview

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John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

Kindle original short story about a day in the life of a time machine operator who works for a temporal tourism business. #bookreview

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A.J. Rich, The Hand That Feeds You

A grad student studying the psychology of victims comes home to find her fiancé mauled by dogs—an incident that leads to her learning he was not who he said he was.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories

A collection of 11 stories by Nobel Prize–winning author, translated from the original Yiddish. #bookreview

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Ken Follett, Circle of Days

Formulaic Follett saga about the construction of Stonehenge. #bookreview

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Claudia Lux, Sign Here

The damaged and damned on the fifth floor of Hell endure a bureaucratic … well, hellscape while trying to make their quotas. #bookreview

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Amy Meyerson, The Water Lies

Psychological suspense set in the claustrophobic, Rear Window-esque Venice Canals neighborhood of L.A. #bookreview

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Peter Swanson, The Girl With a Clock for a Heart

Psychological suspense novel whose dual timelines follow George Foss’s involvement with a name-shifting siren—a one-time college girlfriend whose troubled past and dangerous future stamp his life for decades. #bookreview

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Robert Silverberg, Hawksbill Station

Cool hook, likable protagonist, good writing, and a poignant ending. #bookreview

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She looks so happy :-)

Looking up “obstreperous “….

:-)

I can’t argue with the logic, just wouldn’t be strong enough to resist, myself, because CURIOSITY! But then crippling insecurity, of course.

That makes a lot of sense, and I’ve heard actors saying that they never read reviews. I’m not so strong. Fortunately, there have been so few reviews of my literary output that I don’t have to wrestle often with the question.

Never in your life?! I’m truly shocked.

In my great repost of book reviews as I move everything to a new site, finally got to the good stuff: debra-hamel.ghost.io/mil-millingt... 21 years ago!

I feel weirdly seen. Thank you.

Don’t give me that malarkey.

You are a complex man.

Aha! Got it. :-)

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Love first lines? Almost 20 years ago, I created a Twitter account called TwitterLit (later TwitrLit) where I posted the first lines of books without attribution but with (affiliate) links to Amazon. The roughly 6000 lines now have a permanent home at my new site: debra-hamel.ghost.io/twitrlit/

:-)