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Taking on the Dead by Annie Walls
" okay, this is another book that has such uniformly high ratings that i don't feel bad for being a little critical, even though i do have a soft spot for the self-published authors, and i do always try to cut them a little more slack than i ordinar... "
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Trudi rated a book 5 of 5 stars
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
Bog Child
by Siobhan Dowd
read in May, 2013
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"Maybe it's different for a detective series, but I still find it hard to wrap my head around getting somebody else to keep writing a character after t...more "
Robert B. Parker's Wonderland by Ace Atkins
" I recently got to see some mystery writers including Ace Atkins and Megan Abbott at an event and signing in St. Louis and got one of my proudest moments when I met Atkins and mentioned that I liked the homage he’d done to True Grit in his first Sp... "
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Punk Rock Jesus by Sean Gordon Murphy
" “I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.”
Bart Simpson

What a great concept!

Let's take DNA from the Shroud of Turin and clone us a new messiah! And make it a reality TV show to boot! Leapin' Lazarus! How can we go w... "
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Trudi and 185 other people liked Lisa Henry's blog post: "Unprofessional Reviews"...WTF?
"Oh my god! How dare you review my literary masterpiece, you’re not even a proper reviewer! You’re just someone unqualified person off the street who read my book! So, some authors out there seem to..."   ...read it »
Trudi made a comment on Dan Schwent's review of The Double
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"How very Soprano's! Are you sure he's not a hit man in his spare time? "
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"I love Lehane's take: "in Greek tragedy they fall from great heights, in noir they fall from the curb". The most important element of noir to me is th...more "
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Dead Souls by Mark S. Deniz
Dead Souls
by Mark S. Deniz (Goodreads Author)
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Laini Taylor
“Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.”
Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

Otto Penzler
“Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.”
Otto Penzler, The Best American Noir of the Century

Laini Taylor
“She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day.”
Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

Laini Taylor
“Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them.

And its snap split the world in two.”
Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

Dennis Lehane
“In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.”
Dennis Lehane

My Reading Year (Entertainment)
1 chapters   —   updated Dec 31, 2012 07:28pm
Description: A list of best and worst for 2012.
203 Stephen King Fans — 4880 members — last activity 20 minutes ago
A place for all Stephen King fans to gather and discuss his work. Welcome Constant Readers!!
108 Horror Aficionados — 6323 members — last activity 3 minutes ago
If you love horror literature, movies, and culture, you're in the right place. Whether it's vampires, werewolves, zombies, serial killers, plagues, or...more
80265 Bookworm Buddies — 261 members — last activity 2 minutes ago
This group is for those bookworms who like to join in buddy reads with others.
1218 The Next Best Book Club — 11226 members — last activity 3 minutes ago
Are you searching for the NEXT best book? Are you willing to kiss all your spare cash goodbye? Are you easily distracted by independent bookshops, big...more
51118 Rated YA-MA — 2485 members — last activity 4 minutes ago
A group for adult lovers of Young Adult fiction. We feature a different type of book for each month's group read, in order to cater to a variety of re...more
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The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockWinter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellKnockemstiff by Donald Ray PollockCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom FranklinCrimes in Southern Indiana by Frank Bill
Country Noir
66 books — 16 voters
Salem's Lot by Stephen KingI am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonCarrion Comfort by Dan SimmonsThe Traveling Vampire Show by Richard LaymonThey Thirst by Robert R. McCammon
Best Adult Vampire Books
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2013 Reading Challenge
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Trudi has read 41 books toward her goal of 130 books.
 
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2011 Reading Challenge
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Trudi has completed her goal of reading 150 books for the 2011 Reading Challenge!
 
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2012 Reading Challenge
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Trudi has completed her goal of reading 130 books for the 2012 Reading Challenge!
 
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