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Junkette by Sarah Shotland

Junkette by Sarah Shotland June 28, 2014 White Gorilla Press, Belford, NJ 176 pages From the Urban Dictionary online: Junkette: A female who swoons over the junkie-type rock stars. Known to find attraction in boys who smoke, do drugs, are overly skinny, have stoner eyes, messy hair, are in bands, etc. Junkette: Check out that…

Book Review: Sinful Folk by Ned Hayes

Sinful Folk by Ned Hayes Campanile Books: New York January 13, 2014 Kindle edition Print length: 362 pages —Sinful Folk by Ned Hayes with a wonderful cover by Nikki McClure Sinful Folk by Ned Hayes was a much better book than I had expected. I remember choosing this book to review because the novel was…

Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood

Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood 336 pages Picador, UK ISBN-10: 1447226860 ISBN-13: 978-1447226864 February 13, 2014 I spent last weekend reading Mrs. Hemingway. I first read the Hadley (Richardson, wife one) section in one sitting, then I read the Fife (Pauline Pfeiffer, wife two) and Martha (Gellhorn, wife three) sections in another sitting, and finally,…

Ripper by Isabel Allende

Ripper by Isabel Allende496 pagesISBN-10: 0062291408ISBN-13: 978-0062291400Harper, New York Published: January 28, 2014  Ripper is the latest book by one of my favorite authors, Isabel Allende. I have read 80 percent of her books, almost all except for the YA ones and maybe one or two others. I looked forward to this latest book and found…

Dallas Noir edited by David Hale Smith

Dallas Noir edited by David Hale Smith Akashic Books New York November 5, 2013 Paperback, 283 pages —Dallas Noir editor David Hale Smith Dallas Noir is a collection of short stories set in a mix of neighborhoods in and surrounding Dallas, Texas. The “noir” part of the title refers to the genre of fiction where…